"Securitizing Immigration" deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political processes have interacted in the integration process with an analysis of how these practices are located in a context shaped by the preoccupation with risk.

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events - such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics - which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The politics of catastrophe is turned towards an unknown future, which must be imagined and inhabited in order to be made palpable, knowable and actionable. Politics of Catastrophe critically assesses the effects of these new practices of knowing and governing catastrophes to come and challenges the reader to think about the possibility of an alternative politics of catastrophe. This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies, risk theory, political theory and International Relations in general.

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events ? such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics ? which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage.

At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The politics of catastrophe is turned towards an unknown future, which must be imagined and inhabited in order to be made palpable, knowable and actionable. Politics of Catastrophe critically assesses the effects of these new practices of knowing and governing catastrophes to come and challenges the reader to think about the possibility of an alternative politics of catastrophe.

This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies, risk theory, political theory and International Relations in general.

Documentaries such as "An Inconvenient Truth," "Countdown to Zero," "Inside Job," "Fahrenheit 9/11 "are powerful narratives through which political meaning is being produced, circulated and consumed on a global level .By casually treating the documentary genre as one among other visual forms, the discipline of IR risks cutting itself off from understanding the significance and complexity of this visual culture and the ways in which it encroaches on informed debates about global politics. The purpose of this book is to provide new vistas for grasping and using the genre of documentary film in the study and teaching of global politics.

Documenting World Politics introduces the genres and sub-genres of documentary film as they pertain to (the study of) world politics; by offering readings of specific films and types of films; as well as by providing interviews with directors. Together, these increase the reflexivity of IR scholars about the ways in which the increasingly popular medium of documentary represents and takes part in global politics. The contributors to this volume argue that much can be gained if we do not just think of documentaries as a window on or intervention in reality, but as a political epistemology that like theories involve particular postures, strategies and methodologies towards the world to which they provide access.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, popular culture and world politics and media studies alike. "