Subjects of Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-12

3. Theorising Foreign Policy as Social Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Sovereignty and the Modern Subject: Theory as Practice

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      Pages 15-36

   3. Conceptualising Foreign Policy and Social Control

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      Pages 37-61

   4. Foreign Policy as Domestic Discipline and Control

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      Pages 62-92

4. Case Studies of Foreign Policy Regulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-96

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   2. Beyond Conspiracy? Cold War Antecedents of Foreign Policy Regulation

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      Pages 97-134

   3. Bodies, Space and Politics: The Intensification of Spatial Control After 9/11

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      Pages 135-175

   4. Populations, Health and Trauma: The Mass Psychological Effects Stemming from 9/11

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      Pages 176-215

5. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

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      Pages 216-229

6. Back Matter

   Pages 230-259

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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.

• foreign policy
• terrorism
• war

• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

  Robin Cameron

Robin Cameron is Program Manager of Human Security Research and a Research Fellow at the Global Cities Institute, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He has previously held teaching positions at the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, Latrobe University and Deakin University.

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