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America and the Politics of Insecurity

  • ISBN-13: 9781421419602
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Andrew Rojecki
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2016
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]
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In America and the Politics of Insecurity, Andrew Rojecki assesses the response of citizens and politicians to a series of crises that confronted the United States during the first decade of the twenty-first century. This period brought Americans face to face with extraordinarily difficult problems that were compounded by their origin in seemingly uncontrollable global forces. Rojecki establishes a theoretical framework for understanding how these new uncertainties contribute to increasingly polarized political discourse.
 
Analyzing three domains of American insecurity—economic, environmental, and existential—Rojecki examines responses to the Great Recession by groups like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street; considers why the growing demand for fossil fuels makes people disregard global warming; and explores the desire for security measures that restrict personal freedom in the age of terrorism. Ultimately, he explains why the right has thus far held an edge over the left in the politics of insecurity.
 
Rojecki concludes that in order to address these broad-scale political problems, we must reframe domestic issues as reactions to undiagnosed global conditions. Bringing the psychology of uncertainty together with contemporary case studies, this book is a sweeping diagnostic for—and antidote to—ineffective political discourse in a globalized world that imports bads as well as goods.
 

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Acknowledgments
1. Globalization and Insecurity
2. Uncertainty, Interests, and Identity
3. Unknown Unknowns
4. American Exceptionalism and Post-9/11 Foreign Policy
5. Climate Change and the Flood
6. Porosity and Paradox
7. Reaction from the Right
8. Reactions from the Left
9. The New Normal and the Limits of Insecurity
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