Global Surveillance and Policing: Borders, Security, Identity--Introduction (From Global Surveillance and Policing: Borders, Security, Identity, P 1-10, 2005, Elia Zureik and Mark B. Salter, eds. -- See NCJ-213109)

• NCJ Number: 213110
• Author(s): Elia Zureik; Mark B. Salter
• Date Published: 2005
• Length: 10 pages
• Sale Source: Willan Publishing
• Publication Format: Book Chapter
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter introduces the themes of this book, which derived from discussions at a workshop that involved scholars, researchers, and activists in discussions of the ways in which the modern state attempts to maintain its security under the forces of globalization, mobile populations, and data flow that erode borders and surveillance mechanisms.

Abstract

The collection of papers from this book indicates that the development of surveillance technologies will be used to strengthen the power of nations to preemptively identify individuals who are planning attacks on its citizens and use countermeasures against enemies' tactics. This inevitably raises the issue of the threat to human rights posed by new surveillance techniques and practices. One of the themes of this book is that the new dynamics of global policing and surveillance must be a central concern of contemporary policymakers and policy studies. A second theme is that the effort to develop and monitor security policies, institutions, and practices should involve a variety of disciplines appropriate to the features of the practice under consideration. A third argument presented is that the concept of national borders is itself in need of more study and theorizing in the context of the politics of globalization. A fourth argument of the book is that the paths, processes, and institutions of the movement of data and information is just as important in the security of nations as the paths, processes, and institutions that control the movement of persons. 16 references