Genealogies of liberal violence

Human Rights, State Violence, and the Police

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4476255
AutoresSimon Reid‐henry (Peace Research Institute Oslo, autor correspondente), M Reid-Henry, S M Reid-Henry (Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, LondonE1 4NS, England and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Hausmans gate 7, PO Box 9229 Gronland, NO-0134 Oslo, Norway)
Ano2015
Volume33
Fascículo4
Páginas626-641
Data de publicação2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0263775815598106
OpenAlexW2271904716
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas43

This paper presents a genealogical analysis of the relationship between liberal state violence and the contemporary liberal will-to-care by way of an exploration of what is sometimes referred to as 'humanitarian war'. I explore the historical convergence of contemporary human rights norms with military intervention in the post-Cold War context. I suggest that, far from representing a limit upon state violence in the present, human rights in fact move us closer to the 'emancipation' of state violence as an instrument of liberal police power. Further I take up the question of the law as it structures and shapes this emergent form of state violence more directly. Focusing on the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), I suggest that the form of power that is made possible by military humanitarian interventions, and in doctrines such as R2P in particular, is an international variant of what Michel Foucault termed the power of the 'police'. I suggest that thinking about this power as a form of distributional authority may be helpful in holding to account both liberal interventionism and its underlying will-to-order in favour of an international politics of care

Doctrine · Emancipation · Human rights · Humanitarian intervention · International relations · Interventionism (politics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · State (computer science · State of exception · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law