Terror, Insecurity and Liberty

Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11
Herausgeber: Bigo, Didier; Tsoukala, Anastassia

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume questions the widespread resort to illiberal security practices by contemporary liberal regimes since 9/11, and argues that counter-terrorism is embedded into the very logic of the fields of politics and security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415466288
• ISBN-10: 0415466288
• Artikelnr.: 25007206

Autorenporträt

Didier Bigo is Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po Paris, and visiting Professor at King's College London. Anastassia Tsoukala is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University Paris XI, and Research fellow at University Paris V-Sorbonne.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Understanding (in)security
2 Globalized (in)security: the field and the ban-opticon
3 Defining the terrorist threat in the post-September 11 era
4 'Hidden in plain sight': intelligence
exception and suspicion after 11 September 2001
5 Military activities within national boundaries: the French case
6 Military interventions and the concept of the political: bringing the political back into the interactions between external forces and local societies
Select bibliography
Index