Terror, insecurity and liberty : illiberal practices of liberal regimes after 9/11 / edited by Didier Bigo and Anastassia Tsoukala.

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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Bigo, Didier, Tsoukala, Anastassia
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Routledge studies in liberty and security.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.