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3 Oliver Kessler, ‘The same as it never was? Uncertainty and the changing contours of international law’, this Special Section of the RIS.

4 Bartholomew Paudyn, ‘The uncertain (re)politicisation of fiscal relations in Europe: a shift in EMU's modes of governance’, this Special Section of the RIS.

5 Erna Rijsdijk, ‘The politics of hard knowledge: uncertainty, intelligence failures and the “last minute genocide” of Srebrenica’, this Special Section of the RIS.

6 The precautionary logic was officially adopted by the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, and included in the Rio Declaration. See further Ewald, Francois, ‘The Return of Descartes' Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution’, in Baker, Tom and Simon, Jonathan (eds), Embracing Risk (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002), pp. 273–301Google Scholar ; Aradau, Claudia and Van Munster, Rens, ‘Taming the Future: The Dispositif of Risk in the War on Terror’, in Amoore, Louise and Goede, Marieke de (eds), Risk and the War on Terror (London and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 23–40Google Scholar . See also Tanja Aalberts and Wouter Werner, ‘Mobilising uncertainty and the making of responsible sovereigns’, this Special Section of the RIS; and Filip Gelev ‘Checks and balances of risk management: precautionary logic and the judiciary’, this Special Section of the RIS.

7 Anna Leander, ‘Risk and the fabrication of apolitical, unaccountable military markets: the case of the CIA “Killing Program”’, this Special Section of the RIS.

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12 Gelev, ‘Checks and balances of risk management’.