1st Edition

Terror, Insecurity and Liberty Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11

Edited By Didier Bigo, Anastassia Tsoukala Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume questions the widespread resort to illiberal security practices by contemporary liberal regimes since 9/11, and argues that counter-terrorism is embedded into the very logic of the fields of politics and security. Although recent debate surrounding civil rights and liberties in post-9/11 Europe has focused on the forms, provisions and legal consequences of security-led... Read more
Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 Understanding (in)security, 2 Globalized (in)security: the field and the ban-opticon, 3 Defining the terrorist threat in the post-September 11 era, 4 ‘Hidden in plain sight’: intelligence, exception and suspicion after 11 September 2001, 5 Military activities within national boundaries: the French case, 6 Military interventions and the concept of the political: bringing the political back into the interactions between external forces and local societies, Select bibliography, Index

Biography

Didier Bigo is Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po Paris, and visiting Professor at King's College London. Anastassia Tsoukala is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University Paris XI, and Research fellow at University Paris V-Sorbonne.