Burgess, J. Peter.

The ethical subject of security : geopolitical reason and the threat against Europe / J. Peter Burgess. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011. - x, 235 p. ; 25 cm. - PRIO new security studies . - PRIO new security studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Introduction : security as ethos and episteme -- Nietzsche, or value and the subject of security -- Foucault, or genealogy of the ethical subject -- Lacan, or the ethical subject of the real -- Butler, or the precarious subject -- Identity, community and security -- Intolerable insecurity -- Justice in political, legal and moral community -- Psychoanalysis of the national thing -- Security culture and the new ethos of risk -- Insecurity of the European community of values -- The modernity of a cosmopolitan Europe -- The new nomos of Europe -- A federalist Europe between economic and cultural value -- War in the name of Europe and the legitimacy of collective violence -- Conclusion : the many faces of European security.

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National security--Moral and ethical aspects--Europe.
Internal security--Moral and ethical aspects--Europe.

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