Monographie

American security and the global war on terror / Edwin Daniel Jacob

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • American security and the global war on terror / Edwin Daniel Jacob
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • London New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, 2020
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (141 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Emerging technology, ethics and international affairs
ISBN
  • 978-0-367-43831-9
  • 0-367-43831-3
EAN
  • 9780367438319 rel.
Appartient à la collection
  • Emerging technologies, ethics and international affairs series editors: Steven Barela, Jai C. Galliott, Avery Plaw, Katina Michael London [etc.] Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2015
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.033 073
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [121]-135. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • La p. de garde indique : "This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today's geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices. Edwin Daniel Jacob argues that America's security practices in the Global War on Terror have been guided by an anachronistic Cold War logic that has subordinated strategy to tactics. Jacob shows that deep-rooted prejudices and presuppositions regarding American exceptionalism have had a disastrous impact on the policies of the United States, not only in dealing with terrorism, but also in seeking to impose American hegemony in the Middle East. Ineffectual security practices of dubious moral character, from rendition and torture to preemptive strikes and nation building to drones and assassinations, privilege exigency over ethics. Yet the result of this "post-strategic" approach to security, where interchangeable tactics, like these, masquerade as strategy, only increases insecurity. Jacob offers a fresh perspective on American foreign policy that links national security with human security in regional terms. This approach highlights the need for order, predictability, and stability - the cornerstone of political realism. Making use of insights derived from Machiavelli, Hobbes, Marx, Weber, Schmitt, and Morgenthau, this interdisciplinary work provides an overview of American foreign policy in the twenty-first century and speaks to crucial themes in the fields of history, political science, and sociology."
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