ISBN : 2296008666
GLOBALIZED (IN)SECURITY: THE FIELD AND THE BAN-OPTICON
Introduction The discourses that the United States and its closest allies 2 have put forth asserting the necessity to globalize security have taken on an unprecedented intensity and reach. They justify themselves by propagating the idea of a global "(in)security," attributed to the development of threats of mass destruction, thought to derive from terrorist or other criminal organizations and the governments that support them. This globalization is supposed to make national borders effectively obsolete, and to oblige other actors in the international arena to collaborate. At the same time, it makes obsolete the conventional distinction between the constellation of war,...