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Ten Years of Terror: Michael Dillon

Ten years of the War on Terror I think has to be locat­ed also in the con­text of more than ten years of lib­er­al wel­fare since 1989, and the dis­so­lu­tion of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War structures. 

Ten Years of Terror: Mary Kaldor

For me…human secu­ri­ty is say­ing an Afghan life is equal to a British life. And our secu­ri­ty is guar­an­teed by con­tribut­ing to a glob­al secu­ri­ty that treats all humans as equal. That’s some­thing very very dif­fi­cult for politi­cians to grasp. Partly because they still live in an old-fashioned world where they’re afraid if they use words like human secu­ri­ty” they’ll sound soft.

Ten Years of Terror: J. Peter Burgess

Few con­cepts have seized our polit­i­cal imag­i­na­tion in the last decade like secu­ri­ty. Few con­cepts have mobi­lized us to engage so many extra­or­di­nary mea­sures, to ded­i­cate so much mon­ey, and to change the lives of so many peo­ple as secu­ri­ty. And the con­cept of secu­ri­ty has not at all remained sta­ble. It has­n’t remained at all aloof or untouched by this process.

Ten Years of Terror: Brad Evans

A decade on, the vio­lence of September the 11th, 2001 still haunts the lib­er­al imag­i­nary of threat. And I guess by this what I mean is that the vio­lence of that fate­ful day now under­writes all forms of lib­er­al secu­ri­ty gov­er­nance, glob­al­ly. And I think this in many ways is of course under­stand­able. I per­son­al­ly find myself some­times deeply trou­bled by that fate­ful predica­ment faced by those peo­ple who decid­ed to take their own lives on that hor­ri­fy­ing day. However in spite of this, I think our response rep­re­sents noth­ing short of a pro­found fail­ure of the polit­i­cal and the philo­soph­i­cal imagination. 

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