“The aspiration to security is thus misguided and certainly unachievable. As Foucault (2007) has remarked, security is not a state to be realised; it is always elusive, an absolute end that cannot be attained. But it is also through this pervasive sense of insecurity that populations are governed, from the scale of the body to the realms of international politics.” SecurityGovernanceInternational Politics Book:Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture Source: Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture