The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Problems of International Politics)
Cambridge University Press, 12/7/2017
EAN 9781316622933, ISBN10: 1316622932
Paperback, 268 pages, 22.8 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire.
Introduction
1. Borders
thick and thin
Part I. The Perimeter
2. The wall and its shadow
security in the borderlands
3. Co-bordering
one border, two sovereigns?
4. A global question
co-bordering, cosmopolitanism, and the spectre of empire
Part II. The Ports of Entry
5. The tiniest constable
big data, security, and the politics of identification
6. Sovereignty, security, and the politics of trust
7. Into the digital dark
data, the global firewall, and the future of security.