Terror, Insecurity and Liberty (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134036363
• Artikelnr.: 38255188

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