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2009.
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Building on the work of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, this paper explores the critical intersection between biopolitics and geopolitics. More specifically, an analysis is performed on the discourse that has been produced by the US executive with regard to the ongoing Darfur crisis. I interpret this discourse as part of a bio-normative geopolitical calculation aimed at maintaining the US claim on the valuation of global life without, however, committing many resources to actually protecting and securing this life within a meaningful political community. This investigation points particularly to the challenge that foreign humanitarian crises pose to the legitimacy of the United States' global hegemonic ambitions. I argue that the United States has responded to this challenge by presenting itself as a global moral hegemon whose role is primarily to judge rather than act with regard to the protection of foreign human life. As the named "genocide" in Darfur continues, the United States is also forcing a devaluation of the concept of genocide itself, thus initiating a fundamental recalibration of the relation between global ethics and geopolitics.
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107217
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117393
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2012.
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IN DEFINING the Darfur conflict as "Sudan's crisis in Darfur", the African Union High Level Panel on Darfur (AUPD) stated that: "The roots of Darfur's crisis lie in a history of neglect of the Sudanese peripheries, dating from colonial times and continuing during the years of Sudan's independence". While many have echoed this statement, the resolution of the Darfur crisis itself is, unfortunately, a history of occasional but often profound marginalisation in favour of other priorities. This notwithstanding the developments and progress made in the political and peace process in Darfur, particularly with the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), leaves a lot of room to be optimistic. More than ever, the time has come for the international community to recalibrate its focus so as to consolidate the gains made in the Darfur peace process and chart a course towards a sustainable peace. To achieve this, a paradigm shift is needed in the way the international community has approached Sudan, but especially the situation in Darfur.
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