Articulating Security
The United Nations and its Infra-Law

Shows how the United Nations' management of counter-terrorism stifles the law's ability to speak against the injustices of collective security.

Isobel Roele (Author)

9781107182387, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 March 2022

225 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.5 kg

We live in a world of mobile security threats and endemic structural injustice, but the United Nations' go-to solution of strategic management fails to stop threats and perpetuates injustice. Articulating Security is a radical critique of the UN's counter-terrorism strategy. A brilliant new reading of Foucault's concept of disciplinary power and a daring foray into psychoanalysis combine to challenge and redefine how international lawyers talk about security and management. It makes a bold case for the place of law in collective security for, if law is to help tackle injustice in security governance, then it must relinquish its authority and embrace anger. The book sounds an alarm to anyone who assumes law is not implicated in global security, and cautions those who assume that it ought to be.

1. Introduction
Part I. A Joined-up Solution to a Joined-up Problem: 2. The articulated security project
3. Strategic planning
4. Performance review
Part II. The Stakes for Law: 5. Infra-law
6. Anti-law
7. Uncanny law.

Subject Areas: Social security & welfare law [LNTH], International organisations & institutions [LBBU], Public international law [LBB], International relations [JPS]