| Description |
1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgments Page -- 1 Meditations on the abyss: America's imperial illusions -- 2 Past prologue: understanding security in an age of terror -- I. The vagaries of power: Cold War theory and Global War on Terror practice -- II. Interpreting sovereignty: evolution of an idea -- III. Situating security: considerations of a concept -- 3 A tragedy of errors: neo-conservatism, 9/11, and Iraq -- I. Cold warriors without a war: neo-conservatism in the interregnum, 1991-2001 |
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II. Selling security: developing a counter-terror culture -- III. New spheres, old problems: American foreign policy in the Persian Gulf -- 4 Not fade away: revolving actors and evolving tactics under Obama -- I. The neo-liberal imperative: on the moral cognition of modern warfare -- II. Fight by flight: judging the drone -- III. A tale of two (failed) states: Libya, Syria, and the ethics of intervention -- 5 Confronting the abyss: towards a twenty-first-century American security -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000062663 |
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100006266X |
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