Jef Huysmans is Professor of Security Studies, Open University, UK.

This book is concerned with the political effects of diffusing insecurities.

1. Security unbound and democracy, 2. Political reading of security, 3. Insecurity as exception, 4. Diffusing insecurities, 5. Assembling suspicion, 6. Surveillance, democracy, privacy, 7. Security technology enacting democratic limits, 8. Insecurity, democracy, political.