The geopolitics of American insecurity : terror, power and foreign policy / edited by François Debrix and Mark J. Lacy..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : U.S. foreign policy after hype(r)-power / François Debrix and Mark J. Lacy -- Hyper-power or hype-power? : the USA after Kandahar, Karbala, and Katrina / Timothy W. Luke -- American insecurities and the ontopolitics of U.S. pharmacotic wars / Larry N. George -- Power, violence, and torture : making sense of insurgency and legitimacy crises in past and present wars of attrition / Alexander D. Barder -- Torturefest and the passage to pedagogy of tortured pasts / Marie Thorsten -- Designing security : control society and MoMA's SAFE : Design Takes on Risk / Mark J. Lacy -- Deserting sovereignty? : the securitization of undocumented migration in the United States / Mathew Coleman -- The biopolitics of American security policy in the twenty-first century / Julian Reid -- Human security, governmentality, and sovereignty : a critical examination of contemporary discourses on universalizing humanity / Kosuke Shimizu -- The aesthetic emergency of the avian flu affect / Geoffrey Whitehall -- Over a barrel : cultural political economy and oil imperialism / Simon Dalby and Matthew Paterson -- Zombie democracy / Patricia Molloy.