Heng, Yee-Kuang and McDonagh, Kenneth (2008) The other War on Terror revealed: global governmentality and the Financial Action Task Force's campaign against terrorist financing. Review of International Studies, 34 (3). pp. 553-573. ISSN 0260-2105
Abstract
Abstract. Despite initial fanfare surrounding its launch in the White House Rose Garden, the
War on Terrorist Finances (WOTF) has thus far languished as a sideshow, in the shadows of
military campaigns against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq. This neglect is unfortunate, for
the WOTF reflects the other multilateral cooperative dimension of the US-led ‘war on terror’,
quite contrary to conventional sweeping accusations of American unilateralism. Yet the
existing academic literature has been confined mostly to niche specialist journals dedicated to
technical, legalistic and financial regulatory aspects of the WOTF. Using the Financial Action
Task Force (FATF) as a case study, this article seeks to steer discussions on the WOTF onto
a broader theoretical IR perspective. Building upon emerging academic works that extend
Foucauldian ideas of governmentality to the global level, we examine the interwoven
overlapping national, regional and global regulatory practices emerging against terrorist
financing, and the implications for notions of government, regulation and sovereignty.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Additional Information: | kenneth.mcdonagh at dcu.ie |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Globalization Social Sciences > International relations Social Sciences > Terrorism |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for International Studies (CIS) DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0260210508008164 |
Copyright Information: | © Copyright British International Studies Association 2008 |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 605 |
Deposited On: | 24 Sep 2008 10:00 by Kenneth Mcdonagh . Last Modified 19 Jul 2018 14:41 |
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