VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The Center for Transnational Security Studies (NETS) is dedicated to understanding the transnational processes and actors involved with the contemporary theme of drugs and security.
NETS, created in 2019, is part of the San Tiago Dantas Post-Graduate Program in International Relations at Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP and the Professional Master's Degree in Global Governance and International Policy Making at PUC-SP. Its activities involve the production of articles and other academic materials, participation in scientific events and in different types of media, the organization of lectures, workshops and courses on contemporary themes of its two lines of research, as well as partnerships with various national and international actors. NETS is conducted by research professors and involves students from different areas of knowledge and with different academic degrees (undergraduate, master and doctorate).
NETS is organized around two lines of research:
Understanding drugs in their socio-historical dimension, domestic regulatory norms and global control structure. Analyze the impact of capitalist relations on the development of the illicit and licit drug market. Problematizing the different perceptions about drugs, related to health and public and international security. Revealing the importance of power struggles between national and international actors in drug governance: international bodies, national health agencies, pharmaceutical corporations, law enforcement agencies, criminal groups, among others. Reflecting on the main dilemmas and perspectives of drug regulation for the American continent and for Brazil, with emphasis on cannabis and on themes of social justice, reparation, racism, inequality, and development.
Understanding the new contemporary arrangements of "security governance", taking into account the complex networks of public and private; local and global actors that connect and interact in various social spaces, managing violence and formulating surveillance and policing policies. Identifying the transnational circuits that connect security professionals, including the study of the paths for the formulation and circulation of security policies and technologies. Revealing the ways in which actors articulate to the forces that demand and legitimize this provision of security, highlighting the unequal international power relations and its place in capitalist social relations.
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