Imagining Warfare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12199355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P W Kahn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 199-226 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0938-5428 • E-ISSN: 1464-3596 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ejil/chs086 |
| OpenAlex | W4245993177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
War and law enforcement refer to structures of the political imaginary before they refer to legal norms. In this article, I delineate the basic categories through which this framing of political violence takes place: the aesthetics of war, the subjectivity of the combatant, and the ethos of battle. Together, these elements produce a picture of what war is, what it is about, and what sort of rules should govern it. Today, however, the different elements no longer exist in relationships of mutual support. Political violence is no longer between states with roughly symmetrical capacities to injure each other; violence no longer occurs on a battlefield between masses of uniformed combatants; and those involved no longer seem morally innocent. The drone is both a symbol and a part of the dynamic destruction of what had been a stable imaginative structure. It captures all of these changes: the engagement occurs in a normalized time and space, the enemy is not a state, the target is not innocent, and there is no reciprocity of risk. We can call this situation 'war', but it is no longer clear exactly what that means. The use of drones signals a zone of exception to law that cannot claim the sovereign warrant of war. It represents statecraft as the administration of death. Neither warfare nor law enforcement, this new form of violence is best thought of as the high-tech form of a regime of disappearance. Neither Clausewitz nor Kant, but Machiavelli is our guide in this new war on terror
Battle · Combatant · Ethos · Just war theory · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Spanish Civil War · International Law and Human Rights · Political Theology and Sovereignty · War, Ethics, and Justification · History · Law
Kann Technik sanktionieren? Der technische Vollvollzug von Normen als soziologisches Problem
Drones as Techno-legal Assemblages
Limiting the Risk to Combatant Lives
Narrative Kill or Capture
Drones, Risk, and Perpetual Force
Distant Intimacy
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide
What lies over the horizon? Remoteness and the evolution of American global counterterrorism
Keeping Tradition Alive
The Drone Eats with Me
Security, genocide, and the holocaust
Drones, Hobbes, and Liberal Enchantment
Learning to feel, learning to fear? Emotions, imaginaries, and limits in the politics of securitization
Deadly force
From Nomos to Hegung
US Political Theology and Sacrifice in US Military Use of Genetic Technologies in Sovereign Violence
The ‘individualization of war
Toys for the Boys? Drones, Pleasure and Popular Culture in the Militarisation of Policing
Predatory War, Drones and Torture
Violence Work and the Police Order
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |