ABSTRACT
While the ‘black box’ of hegemonic orders has by now been ‘opened’ at the international level in theoretical terms, chapters three and four respectively advance the theoretical reflections to the empirical context. By carrying out a fine-grained analysis, the following two chapters provide for one of the two central contributions of the present study, i.e. to offer a change of perspective on the international efforts to counter drugs and terrorism. Whereas chapter three analyses the discourse on drug prohibition, chapter four centres on terrorism. In order to allow for comparison of the two discourses (which follows in chapter five) both parts are structured in the same manner. First, they aim to reconstruct the process by which drugs and terrorism have been constituted as a major international security threat; second, how a Self has been established representing the ‘drug-/terrorism-free world’ and opposing the drugs/terrorist Other; and, third, the chapters shed light on how specific practices flowing from these constructions have been institutionalized as counter-measures.
