David A. Westbrook Intermittent Signal

"Conclusion: Will It End?" is Chapter 15 of Maguire and Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge 2020). 

"Is Security Modern?" is Chapter 14 of Maguire and Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge 2020).  This chapter is about ways the understanding of "security" built up in this book inform and reflect various understandings of "modern," and so of our time.

"Security and the Humanization of Bureaucracy" is Chapter 13 of Maguire and Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge 2020).  This chapter attempts to revise commonplace normative understandings of bureaucracy. 

"Violence, Legitimacy, and the State" is Chapter 12 of Maguire and Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge 2020).  This chapter is a rereading of Weber's famous definition of the state. 

"The Resilience of the Individual" is Chapter 11 of Maguire and Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (Routledge 2020).  This chapter is about the different ways individuals respond to terror attacks.