A security state is the product of historical friction and a series of unexpected results leading to its emergence on the global stage. The inherent fear of insecurity results into a channelised ...

A security state is one which perceives a threat to its national survival or danger to its sovereign existence resulting in a preponderant diversion of national resources towards security versus ...

Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing has generated much debate within the United States over whether his leaking of NSA documents was a heroic act or something deserving of punishment. And the NSA ...

This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive ...

Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency, by Charlie Savage, Little, Brown and Company, 784 pages, $30 "The national security bureaucracy is a powerful force," Charlie Savage writes in Power ...

Abstract: Nearly a decade after 9/11, the U.S. government continues to approach homeland security from the viewpoint of protecting the United States from a conventional military attack by an outside ...

It seems ages ago now, but there really was a time when some civil libertarians held out hope for Barack Obama's presidency. If elected, this former constitutional law professor might be "our first ...

The largely overlooked legacy of former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, one of the anti-corruption campaign’s biggest casualties, is the creation of new, unregulated power within ...