Subjects of Security: Domestic Effects of Foreign Policy in the War on Terror (New Security Challenges)

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. This Text 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 Which Inverts The Traditional Analysis Of Foreign Policy In Order To Interpret Its Impact Upon Subject Formation Through Everyday Practises Of Security And Social Regulation. Part 1: Theorizing Foreign Policy As Social Control. Sovereignty And The Modern Subject: Theory As Practice ; Conceptualizing Foreign Policy And Social Control ; Foreign Policy As Domestic Discipline And Control. -- Part 2: Case Studies Of Foreign Policy Regulation. Beyond Conspiracy? Cold War Antecedents Of Foreign Policy Regulation ; Bodies, Space And Politics: The Intensification Of Spatial Control After 9/11 ; Populations, Health And Trauma: The Mass Psychological Effects Stemming From 9/11. Robin Cameron, Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 230-249) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Sovereignty and the Modern Subject: Theory as Practice....Pages 15-36 Conceptualising Foreign Policy and Social Control....Pages 37-61 Foreign Policy as Domestic Discipline and Control....Pages 62-92 Front Matter....Pages 93-96 Beyond Conspiracy? Cold War Antecedents of Foreign Policy Regulation....Pages 97-134 Bodies, Space and Politics: The Intensification of Spatial Control After 9/11....Pages 135-175 Populations, Health and Trauma: The Mass Psychological Effects Stemming from 9/11....Pages 176-215 Conclusion....Pages 216-229 Back Matter....Pages 230-259 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 which inverts the traditional analysis of foreign policy in order to interpret its impact upon subject formation through everyday practises of security and social regulation.