Description
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
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
