This book explores the reverberating impacts between historical and
contemporary imperial laboratories and their metropoles through
three case studies concerning violence, surveillance and political
economy. The invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003
forced the United States to experiment and innovate in considerable
ways. Faced with growing insurgencies that called into question its
entire mission, the occupation authorities engaged in a series of
tactical and technological innovations that changed the way it
combated insurgents and managed local populations. The book
presents new material to develop the argument that imperial and
colonial contexts function as a laboratory in which techniques of
violence, population control and economic principles are developed
which are subsequently introduced into the domestic society of the
imperial state. The text challenges the widely taken for granted
notion that the diffusion of norms and techniques is a one-way
street from the imperial metropole to the dependent or weak
periphery. This work will be of great interest to scholars of
international relations, critical security studies and
international relations theory.
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