In a post-Cold War, post-9/11 world, the advent of US global supremacy resulted in the installation, perpetuation, and dissemination of an Absolutist Security Agenda (ASA). The ASA explicitly and aggressively articulates US national security as global security: since the collapse of the USSR and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US has sought to unilaterally define, implement, and manage systemic security policy. This work thus probes the conceptual and empirical components, dynamics, and consequentialness of the ASA on global security policy and the system of states by employing critical analysis of the ASA vis-à-vis security, terror, proliferation, law, and rogue states.
1 Introduction 1
2 Absolutist Security: Characteristics and Dynamics 23
3 Absolutist Security: Epistemology and Repercussions 39
4 The USA PATRIOT Act 2001 57
5 Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Global Security 73
6 Conclusion 93
Notes 103
Works Cited 135
Index 179
Overview
In a post-Cold War, post-9/11 world, the advent of US global supremacy resulted in the installation, perpetuation, and dissemination of an Absolutist Security Agenda (ASA). The ASA explicitly and aggressively articulates US national security as global security: since the collapse of the USSR and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US has sought to unilaterally define, implement, and manage systemic security policy. This work thus probes the conceptual and empirical components, dynamics, and consequentialness of the ...