Paradox in preventing and promoting torture
Marginalising ‘harm’ for the sake of global ordering. Reflections on a decade of risk/security globalisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12593124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Findlay (Singapore Management University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1040-1058 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-2987 • E-ISSN: 1744-053X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13642987.2012.658510 |
| OpenAlex | W2053469457 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The ultimate result of globalisation is that as the world setting is compressed there is an intensification of consciousness towards global interests, such as selective ordering, running parallel with strongly influential autonomous interests of the nation state and regional concerns. However, as risk and security disproportionately motivate globalisation, dominant nation state interests (which are at the heart of what operationalises global hegemony) become the prevailing measure of global ordering. Attitudes to ‘harm’ converge around these sectarian interests from the local to the global. As such, the need to torture, it is logically and even ‘legally’ argued, to better ensure domestic security will, if consistent with hegemonic interest, bring about both domestic and global ordering as a consequence. This article argues that globalisation has created a number of paradoxes where global ordering and governance are dictated by the dominant political hegemony and rights become secularized, not universal. Those who seek to contest the views of the hegemony, such as terrorists, are placed outside the global order and international protection and thus are subjected to the one-sided appreciation of harm that has been constructed by the hegemony1 M. Findlay, Governing Through Globalised Crime: Futures for International Criminal Justice (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2008), 8. in attempts at global ordering
Global governance · Global justice · Global politics · Globalization · Harm · Hegemony · Human rights · Human security · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Torture · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |