The Geopolitics of American Insecurity : Terror, Power and Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415460422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 218 str.

Francois Debrix;Mark Lacy

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This collection of essays seeks to explore the future of US security politics in light of the fiasco of the Iraq War, the failure to protect populations after Hurricane Katrina, and growing geopolitical anxieties.

This collection of essays examines the ethico-political and strategic dilemmas that the United States confronts after the Bush years. America faces a world that has been made increasingly vulnerable by its own foreign policy and military ventures after 9/11. Indeed, in the first decade of the new millennium, not only has the desire for US geopolitical mastery resulted in an unnecessary war, but awareness has intensified of non-traditional geopolitical risks that could result in future insecurities.

The chapters in this volume explore three primary areas. First, they seek to interrogate the responses to 9/11 that resulted in an attempt at geopolitical mastery, hegemony, and control on the part of the United States. Second, the essays examine how the US response to 9/11 led to attempts to secure and control populations inside and outside the United States, resulting in events/situations that quickly started to escape American control, such as Abu Ghraib and Katrina. The final section of the book critically investigates developing linkages between contemporary regimes of state control and some of these recently recognized threats or risks. The conduct of everyday life is increasingly conditioned by state-mobilized discourses of security that usher in a geopolitical future characterized by the deployment of new insecurities, new state anxieties, and inevitable measures of biopolitical control and governance.

This edited volume will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, US foreign policy, critical geopolitics and IR theory.

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Acknowledgments  Introduction : US Foreign Policy after Hype(r)-Power Mark J. Lacy and François Debrix  1. Hyper-Power or Hype-Power? The USA after Kandahar, Karbala, and Katrina Timothy W. Luke  2. American Insecurities and the Ontopolitics of US Pharmacotic Wars Larry George  3. Power, Violence, and Torture: Making Sense of Insurgency and Legitimacy Crises in Past and Present Wars of Attrition Alexander D. Barder  4. Torturefest and the Passage to Pedagogy of Tortured Pasts Marie Thorsten  5. Designing Security: Control Society and MoMA's SAFE: Design Takes on Risk Mark J. Lacy  6. Deserting Sovereignty? The Securitization of Undocumented Migration in the United States Mathew Coleman  7. The Biopolitics of American Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century Julian Reid  8. Human Security, Governmentality, and Sovereignty: A Critical Examination of Contemporary Discourses on Universalizing Humanity Kosuke Shimizu 9. The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu Affect Geoffrey Whitehall  10. Over a Barrel: Cultural Political Economy and Oil Imperialism Simon Dalby and Matthew Paterson  11. Zombie Democracy Patricia Molloy  Contributors