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Fragile states and the evolution of risk governance: intervention, prevention and extension

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  • Robert Frith
  • John Glenn

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Following the plane crashes into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, Ulrich Beck claimed that the West would need to pursue ‘border-transcending new beginnings’ towards a more cosmopolitan world. Rather than any radical transformation along cosmopolitan lines, however, this paper maps a process of incremental reform and policy bricolage, where the post-cold war politics of intervention, and the securitisation of development, have been extended to encompass international terrorism in three overlapping phases. Although these overlapping phases – intervention, prevention and extension – are reflexive moments, they constitute a strengthening of the prevailing rationalities and technologies of risk rather than a radical rupture.

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  • Robert Frith & John Glenn, 2015. "Fragile states and the evolution of risk governance: intervention, prevention and extension," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(10), pages 1787-1808, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:36:y:2015:i:10:p:1787-1808
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1063407
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