The biopolitics of the war on terror: life struggles, liberal modernity, and the defence of logistical societies

Reid provides a biopolitical analysis of the origins and development of the War on Terror. Aimed at students and lecturers in International Relations, Political and Social Theory and War and Security Studies, this book theorises the political potentials for human life beyond and after Liberalism

This is a book which completely overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the author shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly supposed by its liberal advocates. It is a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being put to the test if not rejected outright. Seeking a way out of this conflict must in turn mean le