Cultures of Insecurity States, Communities, and the Production of Danger Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson, and Raymond Duvall, editors		$25.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-3308-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3308-1
Examines the cultural production of insecurity in local, national, and international contexts. Genocide in Rwanda, instability in the Middle East, anarchy on the Internet—insecurities abound. But do they occur "naturally," or are they, as this pathbreaking volume suggests, cultural and social productions? Bringing together scholars from political science and anthropology, this collection of essays redirects long-standing views on culture as both a source of insecurity and an object of analysis. The authors present studies whose topics range from traditional security concerns, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Korean War, and the Middle East, to less conventional issues, including the Internet and national security, multiculturalism and regional economic integration in New Zealand, and the plutonium economy in New Mexico. Contributors: Pamela Ballinger, Michael Barnett, Ralph Litzinger, George Marcus, Joseph Masco, Jennifer Milliken, John Mowitt, Himadeep Muppidi, Steve Niva, and Diana Saco. Jutta Weldes is lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol. Mark Laffey is an independent scholar. Hugh Gusterson is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at MIT and the author of The People of the Bomb. Raymond Duvall is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. 352 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1999 Borderlines Series, volume 14