The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and Foreign Policy

by Burgess; J. Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415460422
• ISBN10: 0415460425
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Series: PRIO New Security Studies Book jacket.

Author Biography

Series Editor: J. Peter Burgess

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: US foreign policy after hype(r)-power	p. 1
Hyper-power or hype-power? The USA after Kandahar, Karbala, and Katrina	p. 18
American insecurities and the ontopolitics of US pharmacotic wars	p. 34
Power, violence, and torture: making sense of insurgency and legitimacy crises in past and present wars of attrition	p. 54
Torturefest and the passage to pedagogy of tortured pasts	p. 71
Designing security: control society and MoMA's SAFE: Design Takes on Risk	p. 88
Deserting sovereignty? The securitization of undocumented migration in the United States	p. 107
The biopolitics of American security policy in the twenty-first century	p. 126
Human security, governmentality, and sovereignty: a critical examination of contemporary discourses on universalizing humanity	p. 143
The aesthetic emergency of the avian flu affect	p. 161
Over a barrel: cultural political economy and oil imperialism	p. 181
Zombie democracy	p. 197
Index	p. 215
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