<p>"Makes an important macro-theoretical contribution to the micro-level ethnographies of security conducted in geography."<br /> <i><b>Antipode</b></i><br /> <br /> "In this brilliant book, Brad Evans offers a forceful, cogent, and eye-opening analysis of the complex forces shaping the new normal of terror and security, and provides the theoretical and political tools to challenge it. <i>Liberal Terror</i> should be required reading for everyone concerned about both the changing nature and fate of politics today."<br /> <b>Henry Giroux, Professor of Global Media Networks, McMaster University</b></p> <p>"Liberal interventionism is driven by imaginaries of fear and uncertainty. With its desperate quest to control ungoverned space and eliminate autonomy in order to secure the global bio-sphere, this interventionism now engulfs us all. Brad Evans has written a superb and vital critique which is highly original and compelling. It demands our attention."<br /> <b>Mark Duffield, University of Bristol</b></p> <p>"A tour de force. Page after page, the rhetorical motions of the text are disruptive, insightful and compelling. A counter-effectuation of the prevailing, neo-liberal political conceits in both academic and governmental spaces, its contributions to security analysis, critical methods, and political thinking in general will have lasting effects."<br /> <b>Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii, Manoa</b></p> "This book is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the 21st Century security terrain. It illustrates with sophisticated critical poise the ethical and political stakes of the contemporary attempts at securing planetary life. In doing so, the need to think beyond the failures of liberal humanism becomes altogether more urgent and pressing."<br /> <b>Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research<br /> </b>
This illuminating book by Brad Evans provides a critical evaluation of the wide ranging terrors which are deemed threatening to advanced liberal societies. Moving beyond the assumption that liberalism is integral to the realisation of perpetual peace, human progress, and political emancipation on a planetary scale, it exposes how liberal security regimes are shaped by a complex life-centric rationality which directly undermines any claims to universal justice and co-habitation. Through an incisive and philosophically enriched critique of the contemporary liberal practices of making life more secure, Evans forces us to confront the question of what it means to live politically as we navigate through the dangerous uncertainty of the 21st Century.
Preface vi
Acknowledgements x
1 Imaginaries of Threat 1
2 Liberal Security 42
3 Potentialities 70
4 On Divine Power 98
5 A New Leviathan 135
6 The Event Horizon 165
Notes 201
Select Bibliography 230
Index 241
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Biographical note
Brad Evans is senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol.