The ethical subject of security : geopolitical reason and the threat against Europe / J. Peter Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, J. Peter, author.

Series:

PRIO new security studies.

PRIO new security studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Moral and ethical aspects--Europe.

National security.

Internal security--Moral and ethical aspects--Europe.

Internal security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which 'securitization' and other security practices take place.First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security and insecurity. It suggests, consequently, that no analytic frame can produce or reproduce the subject in some original or primordial form that does not already reproduce a fundamental or structural insecurity. It critically returns, through a variety of studies, to t

Contents:

pt. 1. Theory of the ethical subject

pt. 2. Holding together

pt. 3. Geopolitical rationalities of Europe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-81186-9

1-136-81187-7

1-283-04014-X

9786613040145

0-203-82894-1

9780203828946

OCLC:

731209001