Anthony Burke offers a ground breaking analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism.

Anthony Burke is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Introduction: Security, Freedom and Death Part 1: Security 1. Aporias of Security: From the Leviathan to the Security State 2. Poetry Outside Security: The Jagged Edges of Southeast Asia 3. Security After Security: Israel, Palestine and the Wall Part 2: Ethics 4. Strangers without Strangeness: Power and Difference between Australia and Indonesia 5. The Perverse Perseverance of Sovereignty 6. Just War or Ethical Peace? Morality and Strategic Violence After 9/11 Part 3: Violence 7. Violence and Reason on the Shoals of Vietnam 8. Iraq: Strategy's Burnt Offering 9. Freedom's Freedom: American Enlightenment and Permanent War