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## Uses the perspective of parliamentarians to reassess the relationship between security and politics ## Received an honourable mention from the International Political Sociology section of the International Studies Association Andrew W. Neal argues that while ‘security’ was once an anti-political ‘exception’ in liberal democracies – a black box of secret intelligence and military decision-making at the dark heart of the state – it has now become normalised in professional political life. This represents a direct challenge to critical security studies debates and their core assumption that security is a kind of illiberal and undemocratic ‘anti-politics’. Using archival research and interviews with politicians, Neal investigates security politics from the 1980s to the present day to show how its meaning and practice have changed over time. In doing so, he develops an original reassessment of the security/politics relationship. ## Key Features * Produces an original perspective on security politics by engaging with debates in parliamentary studies and political science that have not previously been connected to security * Theoretically and empirically rethinks the relationship betwe
Who reads Security As Politics : Beyond the State of Exception?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Andrew W. Neal
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474450942
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Military, Political Science