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Financial security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Marieke de Goede
Marieke de Goede*
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University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Corresponding author: Marieke de Goede, Universityof Amsterdam, P.O. Box 15578, 1001NB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email:m.degoede@uva.nl
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This essay was originally published in The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies (Burgess, 2010), and has since become a key reference point in debates on the finance-security nexus. It is reproduced here as a starting point for the present forum, which aims to further advance efforts to conceptualise the relations between finance and security.

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Forum: Conceptualising finance-security relations
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Finance and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 2: Finance and security , 2017, pp. 159 - 172
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Editors’ note This essay was originally published inThe Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies(Burgess, 2010), and has since become a key reference point in debates onthe finance-security nexus. It is reproduced here as a starting point forthe present forum, which aims to further advance efforts to conceptualisethe relations between finance and security.

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