Problematising war
Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11426523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Andrä (0000-0001-8185-7791, Technische Universität Dresden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 705-724 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0260210522000274 |
| OpenAlex | W4283804558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article redirects extant critiques of the modern problem of war at this problem's underlying logic of deviance. According to this logic, war constitutes a kind of international conduct that contravenes behavioural norms and that can be corrected through diagnostic and didactic means. Thereby, war is rendered into a problem falling within the scope of human agency. However, this agency rests on and reproduces this logic's constitutive blind spots. Therefore, it seems imperative to develop ways of problematising war otherwise. The article provides two starting points for (critical) IR scholarship seeking to undertake such a project. Firstly, it combines two Foucaultian tools, the concept of problematisation and the method of genealogy, to direct critique at the logics underlying our evaluative – analytical, ethical, and political – judgements. Secondly, it uses these tools to trace the contingent emergence of the logic of deviance in a crucial example within the wider genealogy of the problem of war: the Carnegie Endowment's commission of inquiry into the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913. Based on original archival research, I highlight different elements of this inquiry's problematisation of war – its frames, assumptions, ways of knowing, and subjects of knowledge – to make them available for reconstruction
Agency (philosophy · Deviance (statistics · Epistemology · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 5.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |