Description
Over the last decade, a large number of states outside the United States have adopted a national security strategy (NSS). This article establishes an analytical taxonomy of the typical NSS and proposes that this transnational security policy reform trend can be understood as an example of biopolitics. The logic and policy proposals of the NSS's introduce techniques associated with biopolitics such as checks and balances into traditional preserves of reason of State, i.e. the foreign policy and state security apparatus. The genre of the NSS is constituted by three main elements; namely, first, a referent object defined by a widened logic of security (and not just the survival of the state as in a classical logic of defense); second, a view of challenges defined as threats, risks and future issues, including a shift from conscious enemies to actors without agency such as nature or instability; and finally the proposition of reforms to create learning security organisations able to deal with complex and dynamic challenges as opposed to static threats.| Period | 23 Apr 2010 |
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| Event title | MPSA Conference 2010 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Chicago, United StatesShow on map |