THE POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH GROUP (PERG) AND THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND EUROPEAN STUDIES (IRES)
cordially invites you to an interactive lecture with
Marieke de Goede
Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam
May 27, Monday, 1:30 p.m., Gellner Room, Central European University, Budapest, Nador u. 9
Speculative Security: the Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies
About the lecture:
This lecture analyses the political economy of the so-called war on terrorism financing. It is somewhat of an empirical puzzle why the Bush administration so keenly embraced financial regulation in the wake of 9/11, when they had only days and months previously boasted of their opposition against money laundering regulation in international fora. In order to understand the prominence of pursuing suspect monies to the so-called war on terror, we have to understand it in the context of a politics of preemption. In this lecture, I argue that the war on terrorist finance was motivated by two objectives that have little to do with cutting off terrorist money, but that enable the drawing of new lines of sight and security intervention in the war on terror. I develop the concept ‘speculative security’ in order to capture and analyse this new merging of the episteme of finance and security. In addition, the lecture will analyse some concrete examples of how speculative security plays out through blacklisting and through a risk-based targeting of mundane financial flows.
About Marieke de Goede:
Dr. Marieke de Goede is Professor of Politics, with a focus on 'Europe in a Global Order,' at the Department of Politics at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), Virtue, Fortune and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and co-editor of Risk and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2008). She is co-director of the NWO-ESRC sponsored research programme Data Wars: New Spaces of Governing in the European Fight Against Terrorist Finance. Her current research explores the politics of fighting terrorist finance in Europe.