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Getting Through Security - Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Hardcover)
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Getting Through Security - Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Hardcover)
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Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the
scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the
"secret colleges" of counterterrorism, a world haunted by the
knowledge that intelligence will fail, and Leviathan will not
arrive quickly enough to save everyone. Based on extensive
interviews with both special forces and other security operators
who seek to protect the public, and survivors of terrorist attacks,
Getting Through Security ranges from targeted European airports to
African malls and hotels to explore counterterrorism today. Maguire
and Westbrook reflect on what these practices mean for the
bureaucratic state and its violence, and offer suggestions for the
perennial challenge to secure not just modern life, but humane
politics. Mark Maguire has long had extraordinary access to a
series of counterterrorism programs. He trained with covert
behavior detection units and attended secret meetings of
international special forces. He found that security professionals,
for all the force at their command, are haunted by ultimately
intractable problems. Intelligence is inadequate, killers
unexpectedly announce themselves, combat teams don't arrive quickly
enough, and for a time an amorphous public is on its own. Such
problems both challenge and occasion the institutions of
contemporary order. David Westbrook accompanied Maguire, pushing
for reflection on what the dangerous enterprise of securing modern
life means for key concepts such as bureaucracy, violence, and the
state. Introducing us to the "secret colleges" of soldiers and
police, where security is produced as an infinite horizon of
possibility, and where tactics shape politics covertly, the authors
relate moments of experimentation by police trying to secure
critical infrastructure and conversations with special forces
operators in Nairobi bars, a world of shifting architecture,
technical responses, and the ever-present threat of violence.
Secrecy is poison. Government agencies compete in the dark. The
uninformed public is infantilized. Getting Through Security exposes
deep flaws in the foundations of bureaucratic modernity, and
suggests possibilities that may yet ameliorate our situation.
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