Terror, insecurity and liberty : illiberal practices of liberal regimes after 9/11
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
1 online resource (198 pages)
9780203926765, 0203926765
233036002
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
Translated from the French