Worst-case scenario?
Subtitle: governance, mediation & the security regime
By: Stuart Price
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781848135307; 9781848135291
Subjects: Emergency management; National security; Social control; Sicherheitspolitik; Attentat; Terrorism and mass media; Planning; Internal security; Innere Sicherheit; Terrorismus
Other titles: Governance, mediation and the security regime
Description: In this original, provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime - the worst-case scenario. This consists of the projection of a significant material threat, used to bolster the security agenda of the neoliberal state. Using a wide range of official sources and case studies, from 9/11 to the Stockwell shooting, Price analyses the manoeuvres of the security regime as it attempts to reproduce a 'command structure' within civil society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-283) and index.