Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents note continued: External militarisation and sovereign biopolitics -- Afghan neutralisation and counter-terrorism domestication -- Neo-liberalised `humanitarianism' and the proliferation of risk management -- 6.Structural conditions for Japanese continuity -- Domestic orthodoxies as conditions for fundamental continuity -- Foreign- and security-policy orthodoxies as moulding conditions -- Developments in the domestic economy of power -- Neo-mercantile developmentalist governmentality as foreign and security policy -- 7.Japanese human security as a continuing politics of convergence -- `Comprehensive national security' as the master convergence -- Bureaucratic construction of the Japanese Human Security Programme -- From programme to assemblage: Japanese appropriation of human security through the United Nations -- 8.Domopolitical assemblage of Japanese human security -- Convergence and domopolitics as complementary diagrams of power --

Contents note continued: Delivering post-conflict peace: human security replaces the military war machine -- Producing Human (in)security: rebuilding their homes, denying their entrance -- Domopolitical administration of NGOs: from Kobe to Afghanistan and beyond.