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
- 4 The National Security State Gone Awry: Returning to First Principles
- 5 The Illiberal Experiment: How Guantánamo Became a Defining American Institution
- 6 National Security and Court Deference: Ramifications and Worrying Trends
- 7 The Zealotry of “Terrorism”
- 8 Reimagining the National Security State: Illusions and Constraints
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
8 - Reimagining the National Security State: Illusions and Constraints
from Part II - Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
- 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
- 4 The National Security State Gone Awry: Returning to First Principles
- 5 The Illiberal Experiment: How Guantánamo Became a Defining American Institution
- 6 National Security and Court Deference: Ramifications and Worrying Trends
- 7 The Zealotry of “Terrorism”
- 8 Reimagining the National Security State: Illusions and Constraints
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Joshua L. Dratel expands upon Azmy’s theme to examine the relationship between two much-overlooked aspects of US security strategy: race and economics. He argues that the institutionalization of profit-making efforts in programs for counterterrorism and deradicalization have reinforced what political theorists refer to as a permanent state of exception inside America’s criminal prosecutions of terrorism suspects. Drawing on his vast experience as a litigator in terrorism and national security cases, Dratel incorporates fresh examples of the evolution of racism as a national security issue and argues that counter-messaging and de-radicalization are as illusory as are America’s sense of infinite resources.
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- Reimagining the National Security StateLiberalism on the Brink, pp. 112 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019