Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the "secret colleges" of counterterrorism, and reflect on what these practices mean for the state and its violence - offering suggestions for the perennial challenge to secure a humane politics.

Mark Maguire is Dean of Maynooth University Faculty of Social Sciences, and former Head of the Department of Anthropology. He has edited a number of recent collections on the anthropology of security, most recently Spaces of Security (NYU Press, 2019) with Setha M. Low.

David A. Westbrook is Louis A. Del Cotto Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York. His books include Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters and Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence and the Responsible Projection of US Force.

SECURITY BETWEEN THE PROFESSION AND THE PUBLIC
1. Introduction: A Sense of the Modern, 2. The Horizon of Fear, 3. The Secret College,
4. The Mysterious Public
A VIEW FROM THE PROFESSION
5. Knowledgeable Uncertainty and the Specter of Failure, 6. Learning from Experience, or Not, 7. Security by Design, 8. Conflicted Domains, Scarce Resources, Limited Agency,
9. Leviathan Sometimes
A VIEW FROM THE PUBLIC
10. The Glamour of Security, 11. The Resilience of the Individual, 12. Violence, Legitimacy, and the State, 13. Security and the Humanization of Bureaucracy, 14. Is Security Modern?
CONCLUSION
15. Will It End?
Appendix: Attacks Mentioned
Bibliography