POWER POLITICS OF SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE: DEMISE OF DEMOCRACY

Abstract

Surveillance is all around us in the modern time. We all are being potentially monitored in one way or the other through various means but the dataveillance is the primary tool to get information for the sake of supremacy. This article derives a relationship between the power and knowledge nexus as devised by Foucault and that is being theoretically and strategically implicated internationally in the pursuit of gaining maximum power. The literature review creates a clear understanding of the power politics that the countries are involved in to exploit individual autonomy through surveillance in the name of security. The research problem that has been tailored is the question of self-sovereignty and the blurred idea of free State and free people with the advent of the data-surveillance which is declining democratic values. Realist and critical security lens along with constructivism that has security studies roots in it have been used as theoretical framework.