The Biopolitics of the War on Terror Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies
, by Reid, JulianNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780719074066 | 0719074061
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/2009
This is a book which completely overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the author shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly supposed by its liberal advocates. It is a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being put to the test if not rejected outright.