Security Unbound: Enacting Democratic Limits

ISBN-13: 9780415440202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str.

Huysmans Jef; Jef Huysmans

Opis

Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. This title argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy.

Spis treści

1. Security unbound and democracy, 2. Political reading of security, 3. Insecurity as exception, 4. Diffusing insecurities, 5. Assembling suspicion, 6. Surveillance, democracy, privacy, 7. Security technology enacting democratic limits, 8. Insecurity, democracy, political.

O autorze

Jef Huysmans is Professor of Security Studies, Open University, UK.