DENNEY, David

Fear, human rights and new labour policy post - 9/11 - Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, December 2008

New Labour's domestic and foreign policy have been driven by a complex and contradictory precautionary logic. Fear management appears to have replaced coherent principles in the development of some areas of policy. The preoccupation with fear and anxiety has provided a rationale for the suspension of liberty and the adoption of measures that Western democracies have only usually seen in times of war. Fear-based policy has also created a more exclusivist, segmented society