Description
Adopting an innovative approach to the ongoing debate over homeland security and state response to terrorism, Joseph Campos investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. New ideas developed in this book reflect ways in which national security is mobilized through specific discourse to manage threats. In addition, a review of presidential rhetoric over the last 30 years reveals that national security discourse has maintained an ideological hegemony to determine what constitutes violence and appropriate responses. The volume incorporates historical depth and critical theory in a comparative framework to provide an invaluable insight into how national security is developed and how it works with the concept of terrorism to secure the state.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction Terrorism and the State; Chapter 1 The State in a Time of Terror; Chapter 2 National Security Discourse on Terrorism in Cold War Presidential Rhetoric; Chapter 3 National Security Discourse on Terrorism in Post–Cold War Presidential Rhetoric; Chapter 4 Once They Were Human; Chapter 5 State Versus Terror; Chapter 6 Language, Knowledge, and Power in the Name of the State; Conclusion;
