After the 'War on Terror

Regulatory States, Risk Bureaucracies and the Risk-Based Governance of Terror

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4444414
AutoresYee-Kuang Heng (National University of Singapore), Yee‐kuang Heng (0000-0003-1413-2429, National University of Singapore, autor de correspondencia), Kenneth Mcdonagh (0000-0003-1811-3081, Dublin City University)
Año2011
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas313-329
Fecha de publicación2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117811415484
OpenAlexW2032578736
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

In March 2009, the Obama administration sent a message to senior Pentagon staff instructing them to refrain from using either of the terms 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' and to replace these terms with 'Overseas Contingency Operations'. The change in tone and, potentially, substance, from the Obama White House by ending the 'war on terror' at the rhetorical level suggests a need to shift our academic attention towards developing more appropriate analytical frameworks for examining alternative strategies for countering terrorism. This paper seeks to explore what it terms an emerging risk-based approach being deployed by states. Our framework proposed here deploys the twin concepts of 'risk bureaucracies' and risk regulatory regimes (RRRs) in examining terrorist financing and aviation security regulations

Administration (probate law) · Bureaucracy · Corporate governance · Economics · Management · Patriot Act · Pentagon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Terrorism · War on terror · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Public Administration · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence