The geopolitics of American insecurity : terror, power and foreign policy / edited by François Debrix and Mark J. Lacy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Debrix, François.

Lacy, Mark J.

Series:

PRIO new security studies ; 1.

PRIO new security studies ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.

United States.

International relations.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

National security--United States--History--21st century.

National security.

History.

World politics--1995-2005.

World politics.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

vi, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

Series: PRIO New Security Studies

This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. The contributors critically detail the new strategies and ideologies of control, governance, and hegemony that America has devised as a response to these new security threats.

The essays explore three primary areas. First, they interrogate the responses to 9/11 that resulted in an attempt at geopolitical mastery by the United States. Second, they examine how the US response to 9/11 led to attempts to secure and control populations inside and outside the United States, resulting in situations that quickly started to escape its control, such as Abu Ghraib and Hurricane Katrina. Lastly, the chapters investigate links between contemporary regimes of state control and recently recognized threats, arguing that the conduct of everyday life is increasingly conditioned by state-mobilized discourses of security. These discourses are, it is argued, ushering in a geopolitical future characterized by new insecurities 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 international relations theory.

Contents:

1 Hyper-power or hype-power? The USA after Kandahar, Karbala, and Katrina / Timothy W. Luke 18

2 American insecurities and the ontopolitics of US pharmacotic wars / Larry N. George 34

3 Power, violence, and torture: making sense of insurgency and legitimacy crises in past and present wars of attrition / Alexander D. Barder 54

4 Torturefest and the passage to pedagogy of tortured pasts / Marie Thorsten 71

5 Designing security: control society and MoMA's SAFE: Design Takes on Risk / Mark J. Lacy 88

6 Deserting sovereignty? The securitization of undocumented migration in the United States / Mathew Coleman 107

7 The biopolitics of American security policy in the twenty-first century / Julian Reid 126

8 Human security, governmentality, and sovereignty: a critical examination of contemporary discourses on universalizing humanity / Kosuke Shimizu 143

9 The aesthetic emergency of the avian flu affect / Geoffrey Whitehall 161

10 Over a barrel: cultural political economy and oil imperialism / Simon Dalby, Matthew Paterson 181

11 Zombie democracy / Patricia Molloy 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415460422

0415460425

9780203884218

0203884213

OCLC:

233798795