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Books by Mark Salter

Building on the materialist turn, these two collections of short interventions will provide a ric... more Building on the materialist turn, these two collections of short interventions will provide a rich resource for scholars and students in this emerging research subfield. Over fifty scholars will provide a broad over-view, from international relations, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, to provide a wide overview of the potential of this theory/method.

The international, the globe, the world is not simply made up of humans and their ideas, but of s... more The international, the globe, the world is not simply made up of humans and their ideas, but of stuff, of things, of objects. Our collection looks at how the international is assembled by the enrolment of objects, humans, and ideas. Objects play a crucial role in the assemblage of the international as a realm, an idea, an appeal to authority, and a scale of analysis. Borders are made with fences, maps, compasses, passports, guards, and gates. War is made with guns, cellphones, improvised explosive devices, helmets, depleted uranium, aircraft, satellites, electricity, meals-ready-to-eat, and oil. Diplomacy is made by telegrams, the internet, diplomatic pouches, chicken dinners, and cameras. The international economy depends on real and virtual currency, transatlantic cables, weather reports, insurance tables, commodities, ships, and trucks, which in turn depend on pipes, petroleum, steel, aluminum. Each of these modes of organizing international life can exist only when a set of objects, actors, and ideas circulate in particular patterns. How do we change our androcentric thinking to get at the emergent, complex set of circuits that produces our messy world? We put things first, and engage in a method of radical openness, letting human and non-human actants demonstrate their capacity for agency for making the international. By thinking through the international with things, we flatten our ontology, which has the effect of displacing the modern political subject as the star of the project of modernity.

This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studie... more This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, thereby filling a large gap in the literature of this emerging field.

Research Methods in New Security Studies is the first book to set out clearly and carefully how to design an interpretivist research project: it clearly compares the object of a research project, the key concepts, the modes of data collection, the data that can be interpreted, the key relations that each method can map, and the best fit for each method.

This book examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices m... more This book examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic.

The complex relationship between liberty and security has been fundamentally recast and contested in liberal democracies since the start of the 'global war on terror'. In addition to recognizing new agencies, political pressures, and new sensitivities to difference, it is important that not to over-state the novelty of the post-9/11 era: the war on terror simply made possible the intensification, expansion, or strengthening of policies already in existence, or simply enabled the shutting down of debate. Working from a common theoretical frame, if different disciplines, these chapters present policy-oriented analyses of the actual practices of security, policing, and law in the European Union and Canada. They focus on questions of risk and exception, state sovereignty and governance, liberty and rights, law and transparency, policing and security. In particular, the essays are concerned with charting how policies, practices, and ideas migrate between Canada, the EU and its member states.

Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and a... more Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. It broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, and migration and establishes the airport as critical to the study of politics and global life.

Special Issues by Mark Salter

Security Dialogue, Jun 1, 2014

Border security as practice: An agenda for research • Karine Côté-Boucher, Federica Infantino, an... more Border security as practice: An agenda for research • Karine Côté-Boucher, Federica Infantino, and Mark B. Salter

Critical Studies on Security, Apr 1, 2014

Papers by Mark Salter

American Political Science Review, Sep 7, 2023

nder conditions of anarchy, the predominant assumption is that scarcity leads to conflict. I cont... more nder conditions of anarchy, the predominant assumption is that scarcity leads to conflict. I contrast traditional Inuit walrus hunt practices to Rousseau's stag hunt to demonstrate how mainstream international relations has it wrong on three counts: (1) radical scarcity need not lead to conflict-prone outcomes, (2) the historical eighteenth-century context of the stag hunt does not prove a predisposition against cooperation, and (3) the conditions of anarchy are irreducible to cultural institutions or to material constraints alone. I leverage Latour's "symmetrical anthropology" to demonstrate that ideas and things have an equal potential to structure the culture of anarchical relations and to build on the literature which has established that comparative cultural data can be used to theorize anarchy. Rethinking the logic of anarchy is especially important in the age of the Anthropocene, given the prospects for radical ecological change in the near future.

Journal of Political Science Education, Jul 1, 2013

This review essay proposes a crowdsourcing platform that takes advantage of technologies that stu... more This review essay proposes a crowdsourcing platform that takes advantage of technologies that students are already using to generate an exciting classroom, to enrich the student experience, and to encourage a sense of global civic responsibility in a large introductory lecture class. After an introductory lecture on a problem, students choose case studies from a predetermined menu. This kind of “choose their own adventure” generative platform is a fresh, stimulating approach that is innovative and can be adapted for both on-campus and distance learning. In traditional lecture courses, the professor makes all of the decisions for what to study, but this platform can enable students to make those decisions, to gain responsibility and earn ownership, and to get feedback about their choices. Thus, students are not just learning to read what someone else chose but learning how to decide themselves what is a good case, what is a good source, and what makes a good course.

Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, May 1, 2003

Routledge eBooks, Apr 11, 2023

"This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security ... more "This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, thereby filling a large gap in the literature of this emerging field. Research Methods in New Security Studies is the first book to set out clearly and carefully how to design an interpretivist research project: it clearly compares the object of a research project, the key concepts, the modes of data collection, the data that can be interpreted, the key relations that each method can map, and the best fit for each method."

Relaciones Internacionales, Feb 15, 2008

El fin de la Guerra Fría trajo importantes cambios tanto en el imaginario internacional popular c... more El fin de la Guerra Fría trajo importantes cambios tanto en el imaginario internacional popular como en el académico. En la prensa corriente surgieron diversas tendencias para diagnosticar el flamante y nuevo mundo. Francis

Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, Jul 19, 1995

If humans consciously shape their world of politics, we may benefit from the elucidation of value... more If humans consciously shape their world of politics, we may benefit from the elucidation of values contained in alternative prescriptions. Values do inform action, not least when they are sanctioned by ratio nales evoking supposedly impersonal forces. The actualizing of values can lead to improvement of our condition or to its deterioration. Thus, we pre fer to choose values carefully insofar as choice may be possible. To comprehend the norms embedded within notions of governance fa cilitates our understanding. Understanding may help practice. On these premises we proceed. Below, we outline a normative conception of global governance and then compare it with the norms advanced by Boutros Boutros-Ghali's "Democracy: A Newly Recognized Imperative" and James N. Rosenau's "Governance in the Twenty-first Century" in the inaugural issue of this journal.1

Geopolitics, Nov 26, 2008

... For an early academic discussion in Arabic see Ali Jarbawi, &#x27;Qara&#x27; ... more ... For an early academic discussion in Arabic see Ali Jarbawi, &#x27;Qara&#x27; Awliyya fi Khitat al-Fasl al-Amani al-Isra&#x27;iliyya&#x27; (An Initial Reading of the Israeli ... DellaPergola cited in H. Agha and AS Khalidi, A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine (London: RIIA 2006) p. 125. ...

Routledge eBooks, Apr 15, 2016

Visa policy is one of the most important areas for contemporary public policy, touching on issues... more Visa policy is one of the most important areas for contemporary public policy, touching on issues of mobility, citizenship, rights, and security. This paper argues that visa policy must: 1) be placed in a national, historical context, 2) be understood as part of a mobility regime that includes identity documents, passports, preclearance, and refugee status adjudication and 3) be analysed with a view to rights and responsibilities. After providing a history of Canadian immigration and visa policies, it highlights several trends in contemporary mobility policy: the automation of decisionmaking, the use of risk-assessment for security purposes and the reliance on preclearance of Canada-bound travel by specifically focusing on the Canada-Czech Republic 'visa war' and the changes to Canadian practices since then. The authors conclude that one of the dominant results of the 'off-shoring' of border controls is the bureaucratisation of decision-making in spaces where rights are difficult to invoke. This development must be a matter of concern for those concerned with rights, particularly mobility rights.

Security Dialogue, Jun 1, 2014

Critical Studies on Security, Apr 1, 2014

American Political Science Review, Sep 7, 2023

Journal of Political Science Education, Jul 1, 2013

Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, May 1, 2003

Routledge eBooks, Apr 11, 2023

Relaciones Internacionales, Feb 15, 2008

Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, Jul 19, 1995

Geopolitics, Nov 26, 2008

Routledge eBooks, Apr 15, 2016

Willan eBooks, 2005

1. Global surveillance and policing: borders, security, identity - Introduction by Elia Zureik an... more 1. Global surveillance and policing: borders, security, identity - Introduction by Elia Zureik and Mark B. Salter 2. Some conceptual issues in the study of borders and surveillance by Gary T. Marx 3. At the threshold of security: a theory of international borders by Mark B. Salter 4. Borders, migration and economic integration: towards a new political economy of borders by Helene Pellerin 5. The border is everywhere: ID cards, surveillance and the other by David Lyon 6. Borders, bodies and biometrics: towards identity management by Benjamin J. Muller 7. Expanding surveillance: connecting biometric information systems to international police cooperation by Nancy Lewis 8. What happens when you book an airline ticket? The collection and processing of passenger data post-9/11 by Colin J. Bennett 9. Potential threats and potential criminals: data collection in the national security entry-exit registration system by Jonathan Finn 10. Imperial embrace? Identification and constraints on mobility in a hegemonic empire by John Torpey 11. Fencing the line: analysis of the recent rise in security measures along disputed and undisputed boundaries by John W. Donaldson 12. 'Getting ahead of the game': border technologies and the changing space of governance by Katja Franko Aas 13. Immigration controls and citizenship in the political rhetoric of New Labour by Don Glynn 14. Freedom of movement inside 'fortress Europe' by Willem Maas

Review of International Studies, Feb 8, 2013

To advance the on-going debate on Securitisation Theory (ST), we argue that the important questio... more To advance the on-going debate on Securitisation Theory (ST), we argue that the important questions of audience and attention can be addressed through careful historical study. In an analysis of the securitising moves concerning the American military base on Diego Garcia, we are able to demonstrate that the Copenhagen and Paris Schools are not methodologically incompatible, and empirically that public attention for security issues has a tendency to dissipate without continual discursive investment.

In this chapter Mark B. Salter, current editor of Security Dialogue, discusses with Can E. Mutlu ... more In this chapter Mark B. Salter, current editor of Security Dialogue, discusses with Can E. Mutlu the meaning and significance of technology for International Relations in light of his eclectic work. Salter, perhaps best-known for his dynamic presentations and engaging intellectual approach and recently for the two-volume project Making Things International, traces his engagement with technology across a vast field of contributions ranging from civilization in international politics, the genealogy of the modern passport, and critical security studies, touching on Foucauldian and Bourdieusian notions. In the conversation, Salter reflects on the recent material turn in IR and the expansion of this as a significant research area within critical consciousness in IR, with more and more people working on materiality, science and technology studies, actor-network theory. He points to the importance of remembering that we are not the first generation to experience this kind of epochal change, and that emancipatory change happens through engagement, and how technology is shaping the encounter with the Other—reminding us that scholarship can and should start with curiosity and intuition.

National, state-based visa waivers are 'blunt instruments' for border, immigration, and mobility ... more National, state-based visa waivers are 'blunt instruments' for border, immigration, and mobility management. A symbol of the tension between the norms of reciprocity and unilateralism: the unilateral imposition of a Canadian visa on Czech nationals caused diplomatic turbulence between the Czech and Canadian governments, and posed a policy problem for the EU. Should all EU member states impose a reciprocal visa on Canadians or undermine the norm of reciprocity and admit that certain member states and bilateral relations are more important than others? The proposed long-term policy solution is a 'next generation' visa that is capable of targeting individuals rather than entire state populations. We argue that i) there is no evidence in current profiling or risk assessment systems that any programme can provide a compelling, efficient, and secure target list and ii) individualised visa restrictions targeting would violate international legal obligations under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. This work was prepared as part of a project on Migration and Asylum in Europe and EU-Canada Relations, funded by the European Commission, FPI.4-Public Diplomacy and Election Observation, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments. The project studies EU-Canada cooperation on migration and asylum policies. It aims at providing a better understanding of the conceptual, political, sociological and legal elements and dilemmas characterising the development of common European public responses to these issues, and their implications for the relationship between liberty and security in EU-Canada relations. The CEPS 'Liberty and Security in Europe' publication series offers the views and critical reflections of CEPS researchers and external collaborators on key policy discussions surrounding the construction of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. The series encompasses policy-oriented and interdisciplinary academic studies and commentary about the internal and external implications of Justice and Home Affairs policies inside Europe and elsewhere throughout the world. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed are attributable only to the authors in a personal capacity and not to any institution with which they are associated. This publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form for non-profit purposes only and on the condition that the source is fully acknowledged.

Routledge eBooks, Apr 11, 2023

This course provides an introduction and overview to a range of research methods in critical secu... more This course provides an introduction and overview to a range of research methods in critical security studies. Its aim is to provide tools and methods to students of critical security studies in support of clear research design and rigorous scholarly methods.

Space, the final frontier" J.T. Kirk Space and the political, economic and social relationships t... more Space, the final frontier" J.T. Kirk Space and the political, economic and social relationships that we construct around notions of territory, nation, frontiers, home and away, all sets the limits for the possibility of community, justice, and order. The course will pay specific attention to the interstices of domestic and inter/national spacessuch as borders, airports, camps, colonies, other lost spaces. Using critical theory from Foucault, Bourdieu, Virilio and others, the readings represent an interdisciplinary interrogation of space.

Articles Border security as practice: An agenda for research The (in)securitization practices of ... more Articles Border security as practice: An agenda for research The (in)securitization practices of the three universes of EU border control: Military/Navy -border guards/police -database analysts The field of border control in Mauritania Postcolonial challenges to migration control: French-Moroccan cooperation practices on forced returns Governing immigration through probation: The displacement of borderwork and the assessment of desirability in Spain Improvising border security: 'A situation of security pluralism' along South Sudan's borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo Beyond territoriality: Rethinking human mobility, border security and geopolitical space from the Indonesian island of Bintan