Fragile states and the evolution of risk governance: intervention, prevention and extension

Robert Frith and John Glenn

Third World Quarterly, 2015, vol. 36, issue 10, 1787-1808

Abstract: Following the plane crashes into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, Ulrich Beck claimed that the West would need to pursue ‘border-transcending new beginnings’ towards a more cosmopolitan world. Rather than any radical transformation along cosmopolitan lines, however, this paper maps a process of incremental reform and policy bricolage, where the post-cold war politics of intervention, and the securitisation of development, have been extended to encompass international terrorism in three overlapping phases. Although these overlapping phases – intervention, prevention and extension – are reflexive moments, they constitute a strengthening of the prevailing rationalities and technologies of risk rather than a radical rupture.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1063407

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