After the War on Terror: Regulatory States, Risk Bureaucracies and the Risk-Based Governance of Terror
International Relations, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2011
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper No. PP11-23
Posted: 19 Aug 2011 Last revised: 2 May 2013
Date Written: September 1, 2011
Abstract
In March 2009, the Obama administration sent a message to senior Pentagon staff instructing them to refrain from using either of the terms ‘Long War’ or ‘Global War on Terror’ and to replace these terms with ‘Overseas Contingency Operations’. The change in tone and, potentially, substance, from the Obama White House by ending the ‘war on terror’ at the rhetorical level suggests a need to shift our academic attention towards developing more appropriate analytical frameworks for examining alternative strategies for countering terrorism. This paper seeks to explore what it terms an emerging risk-based approach being deployed by states. Our framework proposed here deploys the twin concepts of ‘risk bureaucracies’ and risk regulatory regimes (RRRs) in examining terrorist financing and aviation security regulations.
Keywords: risk, risk Bureaucracy, risk regulatory regimes, Ulrich Beck, rar on terror, terrorist financing, aviation security
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