Syncrisis - a term from Socrates we take up from the authors of the first paper in this special issue of CLSC - means bringing together ideas and practices that are different and possibly incomparable. Socrates saw this as a method of social inquiry: the reactions or resonances created by the...

So much has been written - and vigorously contested - about 'organized crime' (OC) that the impending fall of this familiar icon may come as a shock, both to its detractors and to those who take it for granted. Yet that moment may be upon us, for reasons that this paper will explore, as the...

The relationship between the private security industry and public institutions and agencies is complex and by no means one-way. The industry assists and acts as a substitute for the public sphere, is governed by it, albeit in a partial and uneven manner, whilst restructuring the public sphere in...

How can we understand international and local 'security' today and what are the prospects for its transformation? The present international arrangements - a patchwork of the national security policies of states, private security services contracted to public and private customers at home and...

This chapter explores policy on and regulation of financial markets from the perspectives of rightist economist Joseph Schumpeter and leftist sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Why these two theorists? Because one, Schumpeter – a critical friend of markets – well illustrates contemporary economic...

Every narrative has a pivot, key assumption or foundational myth, which threads and holds together diverse content that might otherwise, because of its complexities and scope, become too disjointed to make sense. Before the crisis, the foundational myth was that expertise could steer the ship:...

The financial crisis has spread from private to public, from financial markets (2007-9) to sovereign states (2010 onwards). Concerns over ‘connectedness' – between banks, between banks and states, and hence between states – lies at the heart of the Eurozone debt crisis, just as it...

This paper asks what Capital Markets Union (CMU) means for the future of financial market regulation in the European Union and suggests an answer: the merging of public and private regulation. In the pre-crisis period, public regulation and private regulation of financial markets were separate...

This chapter is concerned with the relations between public and private regulation in respect of hedge funds, which in their own ways govern and re-shape markets, making moral, fairness and efficiency claims and drawing in regulatory resources where they can. Three hedge fund strategies are...