In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores the complex relationship between the state and its continued use of violence through a variety of historical and contemporary case studies, including the Napoleonic Wars, Nazi and Soviet 'eliticide', the consolidation of authority in modern China, post-Soviet Russia, and international criminal tribunals. It also looks at...
In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an ori...
Making a bold intervention into the literature of critical security studies, Charlotte Heath-Kelly explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security after the Death of God. Combining the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman with literature from the sociology of death, she demonstrates how security is a response to the death anxiety implicit within the human condition. What follows is a comparative exploration of the memorialisation of four prominent post-terrorist sites: the World Trade Centre in New York, the Bali bombsite, the London bombings and the Norwegian...
Making a bold intervention into the literature of critical security studies, Charlotte Heath-Kelly explores the ontological relationship between mo...
Security/Mobility brings together research that examines the political regulation of movement with research that engages the material enablers of and constraints on such movement. It bridges theoretical perspectives from critical security studies and political geography in order to provide a more comprehensive perspective on security and mobility. In this vein, the book brings together approaches to mobility that take into account both techniques and practices of regulating movement, as well as their underlying infrastructures. Together they form a perspective on a politics of...
Security/Mobility brings together research that examines the political regulation of movement with research that engages the material enab...
When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post-Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. In the face of contemporary problems of legitimacy and justification, this book offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations. The result is a set of rigorous normative guidelines - the 'communicative imperatives' - intended for application in analyses of the process and...
When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of hu...
A highly original, multi-contributed interdisciplinary investigation into organised violence across a wide range of geographical and academic areas, which argues that violence cannot be completely divorced from 'traditional' political objectives. -- .
A highly original, multi-contributed interdisciplinary investigation into organised violence across a wide range of geographical and academic areas, w...
This study examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international political controversy, where foreign policy orthodoxy comes up hard against alternative interpretations. It does so in the context of American foreign policy during the War on Terror, a conflict that was quintessentially covert and conspiratorial. -- .
This study examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international political controversy, where foreign policy orthod...
