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1 online resource (201 pages) |
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Routledge Critical Security Studies |
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Routledge critical security studies series.
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| Contents |
US Domestic and International Regimes of Security Pacifying the globe, securing the homeland; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; From 'defense' to 'security'; Threats to the global homeland; Method; The book; The 'reality' of insecurity; 1 Liberal security and the biopolitics of global pacification; Security beyond the inside/outside divide; A permanent state of exception?; Political power as war and/or government; Liberal government; Liberalism and its others; Biopolitics and the pacification of illiberal life; Global (counter)insurgencies and the logic of militarization |
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Governmentalities and agents of liberal security2 Expeditionary pacification; Introduction; The rise of counterinsurgency doctrine; Security, development and the management of modernization; Mao and fourth- generation warfare; The military contribution; Vietnam and the 'end' of US counterinsurgency doctrine; Interlude: counterinsurgency between Vietnam and the war on terror; Counterinsurgency revamped; How new is the new doctrine?; Conclusion; 3 Domestic pacification; Introduction; Nixon and the war on drugs; COINTELPRO; The war on drugs under Reagan; The war on drugs under Bush and Clinton |
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Managing risky populationsParamilitary policing; Domestic pacification; Conclusion; 4 Geographies of security; Introduction; Command, control, surveillance and reconnaissance; Interdicting 'risky' circulations; Global borderlands; Domestic borderlands; The securitization of urban design; Warehousing 'risky' populations; Detention, deportation, and 'extraordinary rendition'; The violence of detention; Conclusion; 5 Organizing security; Dreams of omnipotence through omniscience; A changing security environment; Violent non- state actors |
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The militarization of policing and the 'policization' of warfightingThe privatization of security; Losing hearts and minds; Plugging cultural knowledge into the US military; Conclusion; 6 Legitimizing security; Introduction; The biopolitics of human (in)security; Biopolitical pacification; Legitimizing expeditionary pacification; Legitimizing domestic pacification; Failing states, failing cities, global chaos; Enemies of humanity; Conclusion; The problematic of liberal violence; How to challenge liberal violence?; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book maps the increasing convergence of US domestic and international security regimes, analyzing the trend towards global pacification in the name of 'security'. The dream of liberal world peace after the Cold War is on the verge of collapsing into permanent global pacification - not only in the global south but also in pockets of the 'Third World' within the territory of Western states. In this volume, the author explores the ways in which regimes of security have been extended into increasingly large aspects of social life and shows that their expansion has been driven by a constant broadening of the notion of 'war'. Filling a gap in the literature, the book demonstrates how US security agencies have sought to develop indeterminate security capabilities aimed at distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate flows of people and resources. This analysis of regimes of security is tied to a more general discussion about the persistence, or even multiplication, of illiberal forms of power within liberal governmentality. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, war and conflict studies and international relations in general |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Security, International -- Government policy -- United States
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National security -- United States.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Diplomatic relations
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National security
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000115
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136171475 |
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1136171479 |
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9780203081068 |
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0203081064 |
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