Introduction: Colors of Security
Introduction: Colors of Security
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book examines strategies for security against nature as well as against the machinations of human beings and their organizations. The analytic strategy is threefold. First is the effort to understand this massive social, moral, and political thing called “security,” and what goes on in its name. A second goal emerges from the idea that, in the specific and sometimes hell-bent responses to threats, we can see how a particular world works. So studying security is a method, a way to learn how—through people's scramble for survival, capacity, and position—“normal” life operates. A third focus is practical: it assumes the role of consultant, the kind who is seldom if ever brought in because he looks for the benign in a situation that is more often in hunt for the demonic.
Keywords: security, security policy, public policy, command and control
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