| ID | 089525 |
| Title Proper | War without end |
| Other Title Information | grounding the discourse of `global war' |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chandler, David |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article seeks to explain the limits of critical discourses of `global war' and biopolitical framings of `global conflict' that have arisen in response to the globalization of security discourses in the post-Cold War era. The central theoretical insight offered is that `global war' should not be understood in the framework of contested struggles to reproduce and extend the power of regulatory control. `Global war' appears `unlimited' and unconstrained precisely because it lacks the instrumental, strategic framework of `war' understood as a political-military technique. For this reason, critical analytical framings of global conflict, which tend to rely on the `scaling up' of Michel Foucault's critique of biopolitics and upon Carl Schmitt's critique of universal claims to protect the `human', elide the specificity of the international today. Today's `wars of choice', fought under the banner of the `values' of humanitarian intervention or the `global war on terror', are distinguished precisely by the fact that they cannot be grasped as strategically framed political conflicts |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Dialogue Vol. 40, No.3; Jun 2009: p243-262 |
| Journal Source | Security Dialogue Vol. 40, No.3; Jun 2009: p243-262 |
| Key Words | Global War ; Deterritorialized Struggle ; Carl Schmitt ; Biopolitics |