A programme of global pacification: Us counterinsurgency doctrine and the biopolitics of human (in)security

Security Dialogue

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 517-535

  Kienscherf, Markus ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

biopolitics; counterinsurgency; human security; imperialism; liberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755188057     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010611423268     Document Type: Article

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