Introduction

Chapter 1 uses two hypothetical cases to introduce the book’s central lines of inquiry: the first on remittance money; the second on data profiling in the aviation industry. It shows that these cases are symptomatic of a broader transformation in the global governance of security and then spells out the key normative standpoints and offers a critical view of cosmopolitan communitarianism. It asserts that there is perpetual dissension within global society and therefore in global decision-making and representational legitimacy and that a space for contestation needs to be preserved. The last section details the structure of the book and explains the methodology.