This is a book which completely overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the author shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly supposed by its liberal advocates. It is a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being put to the test if not rejected outright.

Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London.

Preface and acknowledgements	p. ix
War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique	p. 1
Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies	p. 17
Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium	p. 40
Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human	p. 62
Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe, and the hypermodernity of Terror	p. 82
Biopolitical life: the 'war against war' of the multitude	p. 102
Epilogue	p. 124
References	p. 130
Index	p. 141
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