Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Brunel University, UK. He is the author of several books, most recently Critique of Security (2008). He is also a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical Philosophy.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. War as Peace, Peace as Pacification; 2. War on Waste; or, International Law as Primitive Accumulation; 3. ‘O Effeminacy! Effeminacy!’: Martial Power, Masculine Power, Liberal Peace; 4. The Police of Civilisation: War as Civilising Offensive; 5. Air Power as Police Power I; 6. Air Power as Police Power II; 7. Under the Sign of Security: Trauma, Terror, Resilience; Notes; Index.

Neocleous’ incisive and innovative analysis of the war and police nexus must be read by anyone still uncertain about the colonial methods and the multiple forms of violence and subjugation under the new emerging security-police-austerity regimes.