The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies (Reappraising the Political)
by Julian Reid
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Newly available in paperback, this book overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. It demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are a fundamental cause of the conflict. The question of the future of humanity is posed by this war, but only in the sense that its show more resolution depends on our abilities to move beyond the limits of dominant understandings of the human and. show lessTags
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Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London, UK, and Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. He lives in Lapland and London.
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- 363.3250973 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Public Safety - Police, Crime Investigation Terrorism, Disasters, Civil Defense Social conflict Terrorism Biography; History By Place North America
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- HV6432 .R45 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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