Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11

Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11

Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11

Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11

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Overview

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.Although recent debate surrounding civil rights and liberties in post-9/11 Europe has focused on the forms, provisions

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134036363
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/13/2008
Series: Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 542 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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
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