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
- 1 Who’s Checking Whom?
- 2 The Deep State and the Failed State: Illusions and Realities in the Pursuit of Security
- 3 A Tale of Two Countries: Fundamental Rights in the “War on Terror”
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Deep State and the Failed State: Illusions and Realities in the Pursuit of Security
from Part I - The National Security State in Perspective
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
- 1 Who’s Checking Whom?
- 2 The Deep State and the Failed State: Illusions and Realities in the Pursuit of Security
- 3 A Tale of Two Countries: Fundamental Rights in the “War on Terror”
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
John Gray widens the perspective to look at the fear of insecurity as it has spread in recent times across the European continent from Italy to Hungary. He details the various reactions to migrants from the Middle East and the reforms and policy decisions they have created at the state level. His argument is that the security state has transcended politics. With piercing insights, he examines the populism of France’s Macron and asks whether Russia’s Putin is a Hobbesian strategist, and if so, what that suggests for geopolitical strategies from the US, China, and elsewhere.
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- Reimagining the National Security StateLiberalism on the Brink, pp. 12 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019