Book contents
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note from the Editor
- Part I The National Security State in Perspective
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- Part III The Future Imagined
- 9 Beyond the Counterinsurgency Paradigm of Governing: Letting Go of Prediction and the Illusion of an Internal Enemy
- 10 Reestablishing the Rule of Law as National Security
- 11 Rethinking the National Security State from an Evolutionary Perspective: A Reconnaissance
- After Thought
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
9 - Beyond the Counterinsurgency Paradigm of Governing: Letting Go of Prediction and the Illusion of an Internal Enemy
from Part III - The Future Imagined
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
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Book contents
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note from the Editor
- Part I The National Security State in Perspective
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- Part III The Future Imagined
- 9 Beyond the Counterinsurgency Paradigm of Governing: Letting Go of Prediction and the Illusion of an Internal Enemy
- 10 Reestablishing the Rule of Law as National Security
- 11 Rethinking the National Security State from an Evolutionary Perspective: A Reconnaissance
- After Thought
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Bernard E. Harcourt expands the thesis about the illusion of insurgency in the United States to the current day. What, he asks, could alter fraudulent and overblown perceptions about the sanctity and importance of the national security state? He suggests that the way forward might begin with relinquishing the institutionalized practice of predicting danger. How to do this and what the consequences might be for his three-pronged analysis of state counterinsurgency strategy provides fresh thinking for future analysis and policymaking.
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- Reimagining the National Security StateLiberalism on the Brink, pp. 141 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019