State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary

by William Walters

Book Overview

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal democracies.

Through investigations into such themes as the mobility of cryptographic secrets, the power of public inquiries, the connection between secrecy and place-making, and the aesthetics of secrecy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138285439
• ISBN13: 9781138285439
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"