Counterterrorism and international power relations : the EU, ASEAN and hegemonic global governance / Anna Cornelia Beyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beyer, Cornelia.

Series:

Library of international relations (Series)

Library of international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Southeast Asia--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Europe--Prevention.

Counterinsurgency.

Terrorists.

Europe.

Terrorists--Southeast Asia.

Terrorists--Europe.

Counterinsurgency--Southeast Asia.

Counterinsurgency--Europe.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, 2010.

Summary:

Beyer (politics, U. of Hull) combines theories of international relations and global governance in order to develop a reinterpretation of the "Global War on Terrorism." She argues that in contrast to understandings of global governance as heterarchic, the "Global War on Terrorism" represents a hegemonic form of global governance in which the United States, as hegemon, persuades and coerces international states into participating in US counterterrorism goals. Beyond the need to revise theoretical understandings of global governance regimes that the emergence of hegemonic international governance implies, she argues that hegemonic governance in the security sphere is dangerous to human rights and civil liberties, even if it has led to a remarkable degree of international cooperation in areas previously thought difficult, such as financial control, the control and policing of crime, and military intervention. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-253) and index.

ISBN:

9781845118921

1845118928

OCLC:

658193561