A Leander
Biographic Data
| ID | 55040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Leander |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Leander |
| SIGNATURE | LEANDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0237-9507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
International political sociology
Published: 13 March 2025
Affective politics. The ‘Vulgar Vibes’ of Brazilian far-right anti-feminism
A baby-bottle shaped as a phallus, a book illustrating oral sex practices for small children or lesbians defecating in a church were circulating as Bolsonaro was elected president in 2018. The left-wing ministry of health was purportedly promoting the baby bottle, the ministry of education the book and the National Secretariat of Politics for Women endorsing lesbians. What is the political significance this crass vulgarity for the far-right in Br…
Objects at Work: Cybersecurity Certificates Making Topological Expertise
Objects do work creating expertise. This article parses how. It works with, revisits, and develops the notion of “boundary-work” located at the core of science and technology studies by Thomas Gieryn, Susan Leigh Star, and others and adds to it the notion of “orienting work” borrowing from the work of materialist feminists such as Sarah Ahmed and Maria do Mar Pereira. Working with these concepts, it shows that cybersecurity certificates make expe…
Militarization matters: Rhetorical Resonances and Market Militarism
Militarization is not the problem” was the title of a recent conference contribution by Mark Neocleous. Many scholars in critical security studies share its message. Researchers on their account should shun a concept that does more harm than good. They should ‘forget militarization’ as Alison Howell puts it. While sharing the concern that the term might direct attention away from police-violence and epistemic racism underpinning such conclusions,…
The Active Form of Security: Technology and the Material-aesthetic Script
How are socially and politically controversial security practices materially-technologically scripted into our lives in ever-deeper ways? This essay proposes that acts of aesthetic design are at the heart of that process and are being deployed by technology corporations to "smooth" the diffusion of security practices, discourses, and politics across global space. To substantiate that claim, we make three moves. First, we propose an understanding …
Militarização importa: Ressonâncias Retóricas E Mercado Do Militarismo
“Militarização não é o problema” foi o título de uma recente conferência realizada por Mark Neocleous. Muitos acadêmicos em estudos críticos de segurança compartilham essa mensagem. Pesquisadores deveriam evitar um conceito que faz mais mal do que bem. Deveriam “esquecer a militarização”, como diz Alison Howell. Embora compartilhando a preocupação de que o termo possa desviar a atenção da violência policial e do racismo epistêmico que sustentam t…
Forum: Critical Ethnography
Ethnography is a political practice with an ambivalent relationship to power. On the one hand, it has benefitted from, legitimized and stabilized hegemonic power relations. On the other hand, it can challenge the self-evidence of the status quo, give room for multiple experiences and worldviews, and place itself in the service of emancipation and social transformation. The forum does not define what critical ethnography is but brings together a r…
Escape, Erase, Entangle: Three Aesthetic Regimes Re-composing the Californian Ideology
Ripples and their returns: Tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond
The Regulatory Security State (RSS) has far-reaching political consequences for the world beyond the EU, for EU priorities and its ability to realize them. We show this point through an analysis of how the extension of the RSS into the digital played into a constellation of factors that skewed politics towards the 2018 election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. We trace the connections from the General Data Protection Regulation through shifts in Face…
What If We Were There? A Counter-Factual Call for IR to Engage with Material-Technological Making
International relations (IR) shows growing interest in expanding its practical engagements into different domains: the visual, the artistic, the aesthetic, the diagrammatic, and so forth. But a gap remains. We rarely make digital, architectural, computational, or other seemingly technical things within IR. This article suggests we should start doing so, in direct collaboration with practitioners, applied scientists, and technical experts. Specifi…
Making International Things: Designing World Politics Differently
Can we make international things—maps, algorithms, museums, visualizations, computer games, virtual reality tools? Objects that criss-cross global space, exert political influence, and produce novel forms of knowledge? This article, and the special issue it introduces, suggests that scholars of international relations can and should engage in the task of making concrete material, aesthetic, and technological objects that exceed the epistemic, log…
Sensing Collectives: Aesthetic and Political Practices Intertwined
Are aesthetics and politics really two different things? The book takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to practice. Case studies trace how sensory experiences are created and how collective interests are shaped. They investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from populist rallies and artistic activism over alternati…
Transversal Politics of Big Tech
Our everyday life is entangled with products and services of so-called Big Tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. International relations (IR) scholars increasingly seek to reflect on the relationships between Big Tech, capitalism, and institutionalized politics, and they engage with the practices of algorithmic governance and platformization that shape and are shaped by Big Tech. This collective discussion advances these emerging …
The State of the Sublime: Aesthetic Protocols and Global Security
Security politics is everywhere, its tendrils entangled with every aspect of life. Nonetheless, this hyper-securitised status quo has not interrupted the flow of everyday life, nor the circulation of people, goods, or ideas. For the privileged of the world, a paradox has emerged: war, terrorism, ecological disaster, pandemics, and many other ‘monstrous’ forms of insecurity are now experienced as mundane and manageable phenomena in spite of the ex…
Parsing Pegasus: An Infrastructural Approach to the Relationship between Technology and Swiss Security Politics
How do technologies matter for security politics? This article introduces the kind of arguments aninfrastructural approachwould focus its answer on. It illustrates how the approach would work by focussing on how the spyware Pegasus developed by the Israeli company NSO matters for Swiss security politics. It follows the infrastructural approach showing how and why it would tend to three things primarily: the politics of theinfrastructuresPegasus i…
Designing-With/In World Politics: Manifestos for an International Political Design
Why is the praxis of the International Social Sciences (iss) so limited? Why are word counts and abstracts so much more integral to our quotidian workday than datasheets or color palettes? Why do we do little more than write texts and give lectures with - perhaps - the odd foray into photography or film-making? Why are we so reluctant to practically (and so not simply conceptually) engage with the full gamut of material, aesthetic, and technologi…
Composing Collaborationist Collages about Commercial Security
This article is an argument about why it is worth taking the trouble to work with feminist, new materialist approaches inspired by Haraway, Mol, Stengers and others, when studying IR questions. It introduces and exemplifies one specific analytical strategy for doing so, namely one of “composing collaborationist collages”, focusing first on the main building blocks of the approach and then on the (dis-)advantages of working with it. In terms of th…
Beyond cyberutopia and digital disenchantment
In this introduction, we describe how this special issue looks at contemporary digital political practices. It highlights the pragmatic engagements employed by political movements and subjects as they negotiate infrastructural entanglements with visions of resistance, subversion, and survival. The contributions to the special issue are characteristic of such engagements that operate beyond the spectacles of cyberutopia and digital disenchantment.…
Locating (new) materialist characters and processes in global governance
This contribution probes A Theory of Global Governance from a materialist perspective. I focus on three forms of materialisms that have played a significant role in social theory as well as International Relations theory: the materialisms of markets, of artefacts, and of embodied affects. Integrating these materialisms serves to unsettle the conceptualization of global governance and of the politics of authority, legitimacy, and contestation unde…
Rituals of world politics: On (Visual) Practices Disordering Things
Rituals are customarily muted into predictable routines aimed to stabilise social orders and limit conflict. As a result, their magic lure recedes into the background, and the unexpected and disruptive elements are downplayed. Our collaborative contribution counters this move by foregrounding rituals of world politics as social practices with notable disordering effects. We engage a series of ‘world pictures’ to show the worlding and disruptive w…
Sticky security: The collages of tracking device advertising
In security studies and beyond, technological developments are associated with technocratic, rationalistic, transparent forms of security governed from a distance. In much of the advertising of tracking devices the associations made are very different not to say opposed to this. The advertising composes security anchored in sensemaking and resonance rather than calculus and reason, working from within and below rather than from a above at distanc…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Contracting Security: Markets in the Making of Monusco Peacekeeping
Private military and security companies (PMSCs) are increasingly contracted to provide security in international peacekeeping missions. Yet, we know very little about the practical implications of this development. How do PMSCs reinforce and shape security management within UN peacekeeping operations, and what are the consequences for UN missions and their host populations? To answer these questions, we explore the operational, representative and…
The Politics of Legal Arrangements: The "Duty of Care," Justifying, Extending, and Perpetuating the Public-in-the-Private Forms of Protection
This article explores the place of formal legal arrangements in the politics surrounding the hybrid, enmeshed public-in-the-private forms of authority this special issue focuses on. It does so by analyzing the significance of one specific legal arrangement, the Duty of Care, for the politics surrounding public-in-the-private forms of protection. I show that the Duty of Care does considerable political work. It contributes to decentering, commerci…
Digital/commercial (in)visibility: The politics of Daesh recruitment videos
This article explores one aspect of digital politics, the politics of videos and more specifically of DAESH recruitment videos. It proposes a practice theoretical approach to the politics of DAESH recruitment videos focused on the re-production of regimes of (in)visibility. The article develops an argument demonstrating specifically how digital and commercial logics characterize the aesthetic, circulatory, and infrastructuring practices re-produc…
The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies
This article suggests that the full significance of PMCs for international security is often missed because the concept of power framing these discussions is inadequate. The power to shape shared understandings of security is particularly neglected. The article argues that the emergence of PMCs has shifted the location of this power from the public/state to the private/market and, even more significantly, from the civil to the military sphere. Th…
The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations1: Promises, Problems, and Potentials
Journal Article The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations Get access Anna Leander Anna Leander Copenhagen Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 294-313, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00135.x Published: 14 September 2011
Global Civil Society: An Answer to War
Technological Agency in the Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and the US Drone Program
On 30 September 2011, the US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen in what has become the most controversial incident of US ‘targeted killing’, or, as its critics would prefer, of the US practice of ‘extrajudicial executions’. This controversy over wording expresses a profound disagreement over the legal status of the US drone program. Target killing suggests that the drone program may be legally regulated. Extrajudicial execution suggests …
The Market for Force and Public Security: The Destabilizing Consequences of Private Military Companies
This article explains how it is possible to arrive at the paradoxical conclusion that an increased reliance on private actors (in the guise of private military companies) could consolidate public peace and security in the weakest African states. It argues that this conclusion can only be reached if the dynamics of the market for force are neglected. The basic claim is that the market as a whole has effects that cannot be captured by focussing on …
Designing-With/In World Politics: Manifestos for an International Political Design
Why is the praxis of the International Social Sciences (iss) so limited? Why are word counts and abstracts so much more integral to our quotidian workday than datasheets or color palettes? Why do we do little more than write texts and give lectures with - perhaps - the odd foray into photography or film-making? Why are we so reluctant to practically (and so not simply conceptually) engage with the full gamut of material, aesthetic, and technologi…
The Paradoxical Impunity of Private Military Companies: Authority and the Limits to Legal Accountability
The impunity of private military companies (PMCs) appears increasingly puzzling. Not only is there widespread awareness and public debate about violations of the spirit — if not the letter — of the law; there is also a ‘mad scramble’ to improve regulation. In spite of this, legal accountability remains problematic. This situation is usually explained either as an expression of the techno-legal difficulties created by the move from government to g…
Drafting Community: Understanding the Fate of Conscription
Discussion about the fate of conscription has focused on whether structural trends are undermining its viability. This article takes another point of departure, arguing that the fate of conscription will be determined by its legitimacy as a social institution. This legitimacy is now under question because conventional myths legitimating the institution no longer function. The fate of conscription depends on whether the institution can be re-encha…
The global governance of security and finance
Private Security Contractors in the Debate about Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality
This article explores the loud presence of private security contractors in the evolving and buoyant discussion surrounding Darfur. Relying primarily on statements by security contractors and industry lobby organizations, this article suggests that neo-liberal governmentality has bolstered the expert status of security contractors in the discussions surrounding Darfur. Both in Darfur and more widely, neo-liberal governmentality tends to `depolitic…
Rituals of world politics: On (Visual) Practices Disordering Things
Rituals are customarily muted into predictable routines aimed to stabilise social orders and limit conflict. As a result, their magic lure recedes into the background, and the unexpected and disruptive elements are downplayed. Our collaborative contribution counters this move by foregrounding rituals of world politics as social practices with notable disordering effects. We engage a series of ‘world pictures’ to show the worlding and disruptive w…
Introduction: The politics of the list
This articles introduces the special issue on 'The Politics of the List.' We observe that lists proliferate as a technique of governance across multiple domains, including health, security, and commerce. We argue that it is important to take seriously the form and technique of the list itself and engage the knowledge practices, governance effects and ways of ordering the world that the list format enables. In other words, the special issue seeks …
Contracting Security: Markets in the Making of Monusco Peacekeeping
Private military and security companies (PMSCs) are increasingly contracted to provide security in international peacekeeping missions. Yet, we know very little about the practical implications of this development. How do PMSCs reinforce and shape security management within UN peacekeeping operations, and what are the consequences for UN missions and their host populations? To answer these questions, we explore the operational, representative and…
Do we really need reflexivity in IPE? Bourdieu's two reasons for answering affirmatively
At the base of the modern social order stands not the executioner but the professor. Not the guillotine, but the (aptly named) doctorat d'tat is the main tool and symbol of state power. The monopoly of legitimate education is now more important, more central than is the monopoly of legitimate violence.1 1Gellner (1983: 34). cg
Militarization matters: Rhetorical Resonances and Market Militarism
Militarization is not the problem” was the title of a recent conference contribution by Mark Neocleous. Many scholars in critical security studies share its message. Researchers on their account should shun a concept that does more harm than good. They should ‘forget militarization’ as Alison Howell puts it. While sharing the concern that the term might direct attention away from police-violence and epistemic racism underpinning such conclusions,…
Introduction: The Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and International Security
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Why we need multiple stories about the global political economy
This comment suggests that Cohen's account of the history and present approaches to IPE as divided into an American and a British school is unduly narrow. It excludes not only Europe and the rest of the world but more centrally lines of lines of theorizing that have shaped and can continue to shape IPE (also within the Anglo-Saxon world). It proceeds to argue that embracing a broader view of IPE is important. It ensures for the quality, relevance…
The politics of whitelisting: Regulatory work and topologies in commercial security
This article looks closely at the politics of whitelists in commercial security. It argues that whitelists are essential for the current transformations in regulatory politics in which Codes of Conduct, Best Practices, Benchmarks and Standards are replacing more conventional, legally binding forms of regulation. The article traces how whitelists are tied to these transformations. The account is organized around how the practical, pragmatic and po…
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Making International Things: Designing World Politics Differently
Can we make international things—maps, algorithms, museums, visualizations, computer games, virtual reality tools? Objects that criss-cross global space, exert political influence, and produce novel forms of knowledge? This article, and the special issue it introduces, suggests that scholars of international relations can and should engage in the task of making concrete material, aesthetic, and technological objects that exceed the epistemic, log…
Sticky security: The collages of tracking device advertising
In security studies and beyond, technological developments are associated with technocratic, rationalistic, transparent forms of security governed from a distance. In much of the advertising of tracking devices the associations made are very different not to say opposed to this. The advertising composes security anchored in sensemaking and resonance rather than calculus and reason, working from within and below rather than from a above at distanc…
The Politics of Legal Arrangements: The "Duty of Care," Justifying, Extending, and Perpetuating the Public-in-the-Private Forms of Protection
This article explores the place of formal legal arrangements in the politics surrounding the hybrid, enmeshed public-in-the-private forms of authority this special issue focuses on. It does so by analyzing the significance of one specific legal arrangement, the Duty of Care, for the politics surrounding public-in-the-private forms of protection. I show that the Duty of Care does considerable political work. It contributes to decentering, commerci…
What do codes of conduct do? Hybrid constitutionalization and militarization in military markets
This article contributes to the debate over the whether or not the mainstreaming of Corporate Social Responsibility/Codes of Conduct should be welcomed. It suggests that to grapple with this question requires an engagement with the multiple and necessarily situated performativities (or jursigenerativities) of these codes. The article illustrates the argument through an analysis of two jurisgenerative processes (linked to regulation and to politic…
Risk and the fabrication of apolitical, unaccountable military markets: The case of the CIA ‘Killing Program’
This article argues that risk is central in (re)producing the unaccountable commercial military/security markets that are a normal part of our political reality. The argument is twofold: first it is suggested that risk rationalities and the associated ‘preventive imperative’ has a depoliticising effect – accentuated by the impersonal spread of risk rationalities and the strategies of risk professionals – which lowers the eagerness to seek account…
Transversal Politics of Big Tech
Our everyday life is entangled with products and services of so-called Big Tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. International relations (IR) scholars increasingly seek to reflect on the relationships between Big Tech, capitalism, and institutionalized politics, and they engage with the practices of algorithmic governance and platformization that shape and are shaped by Big Tech. This collective discussion advances these emerging …
Dubious dichotomies, restricted options, and deficient sight: A reply to Oktar Türel
First published online: 09 January 2008
Robin Hood’ politics? Turkey missing the chance to adopt a new model in the 1990s
The 1991 elections brought a coalition between the centre right and the social democratic party to power. It tried to prevent Turkey from taking yet another plunge into economic and political instability which has punctuated post‐war Turkish history. Its aim was to adopt economic policies attaching more importance to redistribution and relying on the participation of a wider range of social actors. This paper deals with the question whether this …
European Economic and Monetary Union and the Crisis of European Social Contracts
Dependency today—finance, firms, mafias and the state: A review of Susan Strange's work from a developing country perspective
The relevance of Susan Strange’s work to developing countries is often overlooked. This owes more to the disinterest and selective reading of most commentators than to the absence of arguments and threads of thought regarding developing countries in Strange’s writings. One of her major books (Rival States, Rival Firms) deals mainly with structural change in international production and its implications for developing countries. 1 The book is base…
Do we really need reflexivity in IPE? Bourdieu's two reasons for answering affirmatively
At the base of the modern social order stands not the executioner but the professor. Not the guillotine, but the (aptly named) doctorat d'tat is the main tool and symbol of state power. The monopoly of legitimate education is now more important, more central than is the monopoly of legitimate violence.1 1Gellner (1983: 34). cg
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Global Civil Society: An Answer to War
Drafting Community: Understanding the Fate of Conscription
Discussion about the fate of conscription has focused on whether structural trends are undermining its viability. This article takes another point of departure, arguing that the fate of conscription will be determined by its legitimacy as a social institution. This legitimacy is now under question because conventional myths legitimating the institution no longer function. The fate of conscription depends on whether the institution can be re-encha…
The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies
This article suggests that the full significance of PMCs for international security is often missed because the concept of power framing these discussions is inadequate. The power to shape shared understandings of security is particularly neglected. The article argues that the emergence of PMCs has shifted the location of this power from the public/state to the private/market and, even more significantly, from the civil to the military sphere. Th…
The Market for Force and Public Security: The Destabilizing Consequences of Private Military Companies
This article explains how it is possible to arrive at the paradoxical conclusion that an increased reliance on private actors (in the guise of private military companies) could consolidate public peace and security in the weakest African states. It argues that this conclusion can only be reached if the dynamics of the market for force are neglected. The basic claim is that the market as a whole has effects that cannot be captured by focussing on …
Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding World Politics
Private Security Contractors in the Debate about Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality
This article explores the loud presence of private security contractors in the evolving and buoyant discussion surrounding Darfur. Relying primarily on statements by security contractors and industry lobby organizations, this article suggests that neo-liberal governmentality has bolstered the expert status of security contractors in the discussions surrounding Darfur. Both in Darfur and more widely, neo-liberal governmentality tends to `depolitic…
Thinking Tools
In 1984, I moved to Paris to begin my undergraduate education at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Sciences Po offered a series of seminars ostensibly to help foreigners (including me at that time) pass the entrance exam. What I remember from these is a chain smoking ‘M. Thomas’ doing his utmost to convey the message that Sciences Po was an elite institution, that entering it was like entering a ‘gulag’ and that only the be…
The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
Globalization Theory”: Feeble… and Hijacked
Mathias Albert argued in a recent article of IPS (2007) that if systems theory could only work its magic on “globalization theory” it would no longer be “yesterday's fad” but prove “more lively than ever.” Very recently I formulated my thoughts on “globalization” (Leander 2008). The arguments were diametrically opposed to those of Albert and they also speak directly to questions raised in this forum, namely if Luhmann can provide a route away fro…
Why we need multiple stories about the global political economy
This comment suggests that Cohen's account of the history and present approaches to IPE as divided into an American and a British school is unduly narrow. It excludes not only Europe and the rest of the world but more centrally lines of lines of theorizing that have shaped and can continue to shape IPE (also within the Anglo-Saxon world). It proceeds to argue that embracing a broader view of IPE is important. It ensures for the quality, relevance…
Close Range: Targeting Regulatory Reform
Since the onset of the financial crisis, regulatory reform has held a central place on the political and academic agenda. An intense and broad discussion about a “New Financial Architecture” belies the idea that finance is “too complex” to become the subject of public debate. An abundance of statements have been made to underline that a new regulatory era is beginning. It is not surprising in this context that the G20 economic summit on November …
The Paradoxical Impunity of Private Military Companies: Authority and the Limits to Legal Accountability
The impunity of private military companies (PMCs) appears increasingly puzzling. Not only is there widespread awareness and public debate about violations of the spirit — if not the letter — of the law; there is also a ‘mad scramble’ to improve regulation. In spite of this, legal accountability remains problematic. This situation is usually explained either as an expression of the techno-legal difficulties created by the move from government to g…
The global governance of security and finance
Risk and the fabrication of apolitical, unaccountable military markets: The case of the CIA ‘Killing Program’
This article argues that risk is central in (re)producing the unaccountable commercial military/security markets that are a normal part of our political reality. The argument is twofold: first it is suggested that risk rationalities and the associated ‘preventive imperative’ has a depoliticising effect – accentuated by the impersonal spread of risk rationalities and the strategies of risk professionals – which lowers the eagerness to seek account…
The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations1: Promises, Problems, and Potentials
Journal Article The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations Get access Anna Leander Anna Leander Copenhagen Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 294-313, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00135.x Published: 14 September 2011
What do codes of conduct do? Hybrid constitutionalization and militarization in military markets
This article contributes to the debate over the whether or not the mainstreaming of Corporate Social Responsibility/Codes of Conduct should be welcomed. It suggests that to grapple with this question requires an engagement with the multiple and necessarily situated performativities (or jursigenerativities) of these codes. The article illustrates the argument through an analysis of two jurisgenerative processes (linked to regulation and to politic…
Introduction: The Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and International Security
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Technological Agency in the Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and the US Drone Program
On 30 September 2011, the US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen in what has become the most controversial incident of US ‘targeted killing’, or, as its critics would prefer, of the US practice of ‘extrajudicial executions’. This controversy over wording expresses a profound disagreement over the legal status of the US drone program. Target killing suggests that the drone program may be legally regulated. Extrajudicial execution suggests …
Jomo Kwame Sundaram: An Interview
Encounters between economic theory and other social sciences have come to be characterized by debates about the respective claims to truth, truthfulness, and authority that can be derived from different disciplinary methodologies. With the advance of quantitative statistics and mathematics-based reasoning, the economics profession has advanced claims of universal validity which allegedly rank the discipline first and foremost among the social sci…
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