War power, police power / Mark Neocleous.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neocleous, Mark, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

Police power.

War and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you living in a no-fly zone? What is the role of masculinity in the 'war on terror'? And why do so many liberals profess a love of peace while finding new ways to justify slaughter in the name of 'peace and security'? In this, the first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together, Mark Neocleous deals with these questions and many more by radically rethinking the relationship between war power and police power.

Contents:

War as peace, peace as pacification

War on waste, or, international law as primitive accumulation

'O effeminacy! effeminacy!': martial power, masculine power, liberal peace

The police of civilisation: war as civilising offensive

Air power as police power I

Air power as police power II

Under the sign of security: trauma, terror, resilience.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-9720-9

0-7486-9238-X

OCLC:

1301549572