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

ISBN-13: 9780415466288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 198 str.

Bigo, Didier

Opis

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 and legal consequences of security-led policies, this volume takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explore how these policies have come to generate illiberal practices. The book argues that policies implemented in the name of protection and national security have had a strong effect on civil liberties, human rights and social cohesion - in particular, but not only, since 9/11. The book undertakes detailed sociological enquiries concerning security agencies, and analyses public discourses on the definition of the terrorist threat. In doing so, it aims to show that the current reframing of civil rights and liberties is in part a result of the very functioning of both the political and the security fields, in that it is embedded in a broad array of domestic and transnational political, administrative and bureaucratic stakes.

Spis treści

Understanding (In)Security Didier Bigo and Anastassia Tsoukala.  Globalized (In)Security: The Field and the Ban-Opticon Didier Bigo.  Defining the Terrorist Threat in the Post-September 11th Era Anastassia Tsoukala.  Hidden in Plain Sight’: Intelligence, Exception and Suspicion after September 11th 2001 Laurent Bonelli.  Military Activities within National Boundaries: The French Case Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet.  Military Interventions and the Concept of the Political: Bringing the Political Back into the Interactions between External Forces and Local Societies Christian Olsson