Homeland security, its law and its state : a design of power for the 21st century / Christos Boukalas.
2014
KF4997.H66 B68 2014 (Mapit)
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Boukalas, Christos, author.
Title
Homeland security, its law and its state : a design of power for the 21st century / Christos Boukalas.
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Description
ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Routledge research in terrorism and the law.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
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 institutions and culture. These implications are addressed through a novel approach that treats law and the state as social relations, and relates developments in law to those in the state and in social dynamics. On this basis, the book examines the new political representations in counterterrorism discourse, especially regarding the relation between the state and the population. It examines the form and content of counterterrorism law, the powers it provides, and the structure and functions it prescribes for the state. By focusing on the new Department of Homeland Security and the restructuring of the intelligence apparatus, the book assesses the new, intelligence-led, policing model. Finally, it examines forms of popular support and resistance to homeland security, to discuss citizenship and state-population relations. The author concludes that homeland security has turned the US into a hybrid polity; the legal and political institutions of democracy remain intact, but their content and practices become authoritarian and exclude the population from politics. These legal and political forms remain operative beyond counterterrorism, in the context of the present economic crisis. They are a permanent configuration of power. This book is an indispensable companion for students of (counter-) Terrorism and Security Studies, Politics, Human Rights, Constitutional and Criminal Law, American Studies, and Criminology. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-251) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF4997.H66 B68 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9780415526319 hardback
0415526310 hardback
9780203797716 (ebook)
020379771X (ebook)
113602560X
9781136025600
0415526310 hardback
9780203797716 (ebook)
020379771X (ebook)
113602560X
9781136025600
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