Subjects of Security

Subjects of Security: Domestic Effects of Foreign Policy

 in the War on Terror

 (공)저: Robin Cameron

 

 

 

 

Why has the war on terror been so pervasive in Western democracies? How is it that the war on terror became such a potent organising principle after September 11, 2001? The answers to these questions go beyond the nature of 9/11 as an event and the subsequent counter-terrorism responses. A vital part of the answer is the embedding of norms and stereotypes of foreign policy in everyday practices of security and social regulation. Mass media communication and popular culture representations of 9/11 have given rise to the social redeployment of foreign policy against domestic identities that are deemed a threat to Western nations.

This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order. Cameron develops an original framework that inverts the traditional analysis of foreign policy in order to interpret its impact on domestic subject formation. Foreign policy facilitates the regulation of domestic populations by linking individual and group identity to issues of national security. Since September 11, 2001 there has been a wholesale reorganisation of foreign policy priorities, resulting in the valorisation of certain social stereotypes and the criminalisation of others.

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Subjects of Security offers an in depth treatment of how foreign policy regulates its own domestic sphere. This book-length project develops an original framework that inverts the traditional analysis of foreign in order to interpret the impact of ‘external’ foreign policy on ‘domestic’ individual subjectivity and social order. This framework demonstrates how the subjectivity of citizens is shaped by notions of security stemming from the pervasion of norms and stereotypes of foreign policy into domestic politics. Furthermore, notions of security derived from foreign policy inform how liberty is perceived and what it means to be free, constituting a vital part of social order. This book will show that foreign policy is not limited solely to its intended external audience; indeed it has a profound impact upon domestic audiences of the state in question. Foreign policy in the sense is not just foreign.

 

Subjects of Security argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order. Foreign policy facilitates, overtly and subtly, the regulation of domestic populations by linking individual and group identity to issues of national security. Since September 11, 2001 there has been a wholesale reorganisation of foreign policy priorities, resulting in the valorisation of certain social stereotypes and the criminalisation of others. Accordingly, this book makes a contribution to the field of critical terrorism studies by demonstrating that attempts to mediate the threat posed by terrorism have extensive effects that regulate and control the domestic population. This book demonstrates that those whose liberties counter-terrorism seeks to protect will themselves employ, and often misemploy, the security practices of foreign policy in their everyday lives.

 

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