Homeland security, its law and its state a design of power for the 21st century
This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life. It examines political discourse, law, institutional architecture, and state-population relations, and shows that 'homeland security' is a project with wide-ranging implications for democratic...
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London
Routledge
2014
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| Series: | Routledge research in terrorism and the law
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: homeland security, the US polity and social dynamics
- Politics, the state, and law: a strategic-relational approach
- 11 September 2001: a social, political, and legal charting
- Heralding a new politics: the War on Terror discourse
- A blueprint of power: legislating counterterrorism
- Counterterrorism legislation and the law-form
- The act and the state: implementation, friction, resistance
- Department of Homeland Security and police restructuring
- Total intelligence, intelligence-led policing, 'totalitarian' state?
- The political significance of intelligence: government by experts
- Citizen corps: homeland security citizenship
- Resistance to homeland security
- Repression
- Homeland security: capital in full armour.