Relations between the "Political" and the "Economic" in the Discourses and the Practices of the "War against Terrorism"

The relationship between the economic & political dimensions of security discourses remains under-analyzed in the discipline of International Relations. Yet critical study of the new American security doctrine, of its interventions in Iraq & the effects of the "fight against terrorism" on American society suggest that the contradictory & complex relations between the "political sphere" & the "economic sphere" are at stake. This relationship is articulated just as densely at the level of discourse & practice. Thus the object of this essay is to introduce analysis of the "economic dimensions" of security into the debates on the "war against terrorism," while considering the immense contribution of those approaches that are interested in the constructed nature of threats. Adapted from the source document.