Nick Vaughan-Williams is Professor of International Security and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. From 2016 to 2019 he holds the Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding research in Politics and International Relations. His programme of research, supported with grants from the British Academy, UK Economic and Social Research Council, and Leverhulme Trust, focuses on the relationship between sovereignty, subjectivity, and the spatial dimensions of security particularly the changing nature of borders and bordering practices in global politics. His book Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power (2009, 2012) was Gold Winner of the Association for Borderlands Studies Book Award. He is co-author of Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (2010, 2014) and Everyday Security Threats: Perceptions, Experiences, Consequences (2016).
* Part 1 Borders, crises, critique
* 1.: Europes border crisis
* 2.: European border security and the crisis of humanitarian critique
* 3.: Conceptual crises in critical border and migration studies
* 4.: Key themes and a map of the study
* Part 2. Biopolitical borders
* 5.: Introduction
* 6.: European border security and migration management: from Schengen
to the Arab Spring
* 7.: Foucault and the biopolitical paradigm
* 8.: Biopolitical border security in Europe
* Part 3. Thanatopolitical borders
* 9.: Introduction
* 10.: The sovereign ban and thanatopolitical spaces
* 11.: Reassessing Agamben in critical border and migration studies
* 12.: Push-backs and abandonment in the European borderscape
* Part 4. Zoopolitical borders
* 13.: Introduction
* 14.: Borderwork and contemporary spaces of detention in Europe
* 15.: Critical infrastructure, dehumanization, animalization
* 16.: Derridas zoopolitics and the bestial potential of border
security
* Part 5. Immunitary borders
* 17.: Introduction
* 18.: Life, politics, and immunity in Esposito
* 19.: The immunitary paradigm
* 20.: Reconceptualizing the border as an immune system
* Part 6. Affirmative borders
* 21.: Introduction
* 22.: Affirmative biopolitics
* 23.: Towards an affirmative biopolitical border imaginary
* 24.: Affirmative headings for European border security and migration
management
