more to say about security

From this same article, entitled Points of Departure: The Culture of US Airport Screening, by Lisa Parks,
"As Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin suggest in Rethinking Global Security (2006):
In the twenty-first century, the politics of war, terrorism, and security can hardly be separated from the practices and processes of mediation, which continue to expand and intensify...Both fictional and fact based threats to the U.S. and global security helped to create and sustain a culture of fear, with far-reaching effects."
Understood in this context, airport screening involves a set of mediation processes that have been expanded and intensified to fit the prerogatives of an anxious state."