This article examines the Terrorism Financing Tracking Programme (TFTP), or 'Swift affair,' as exemplary of what have been called 'Data Wars' in this special issue. In the TFTP, access to data about global financial circulations was offered as a means to govern uncertain security futures. The...

This essay was originally published in The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies (Burgess, 2010), and has since become a key reference point in debates on the finance-security nexus. It is reproduced here as a starting point for the present forum, which aims to further advance efforts to...

Securitization has a dual rationality that twins a financial sense to one of modern statecraft and national security. This forum contribution advocates a focus on material practices as a means of further exploring the entanglement of finance and security. In particular, it advances a notion of...