The Politics of Possibility : Risk and Security Beyond Probability /

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Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of "low probability, high consequence" events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics. Uncertain futures--devastation by terrorist attack, cyber crime, flood, financial market collapse--must be discerned and responded to as possib...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amoore, Louise
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Terrorismbekämpning.
Tekniska innovationer.
Säkerhetspolitik.
Internationella relationer > säkerhetsaspekter.
Terrorism > Prevention > Technological innovations.
International relations > Risk assessment.
Terrorisme > Prevention > Innovations.
Relations internationales > Évaluation du risque.
National security > Technological innovations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On authority : probabilities for a world of possibility
  • On risk : securing uncertain futures
  • On the line : life signatures and the writing of the border
  • On location : reconciling security and mobility
  • On aesthetics : security's objects and the form of data
  • On a potential politics.

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