O'Sullivan Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa

The Case of NATO in Libya
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-20967-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Interventions

This book explores military intervention in Libya through the categories of space and time, to provide a robust ethico-political critique of the intervention. The author questions the ways in which military violence was produced as a rational and reasonable response to the crisis in Libya. The NATO intervention is the most recent test-case of humanitarian intervention under the guise of R2P yet it has been under-theorised in critical discourse. This book contributes to an increasingly important branch of critical security studies that combines insights from critical geopolitics and postcolonial critique, by making an argument about the geographies of violence and their differential impact in contemporary security practices, including but not limited to military intervention.

Much of the mainstream international relations scholarship on humanitarian intervention frames the ethical, moral and legal debate over intervention in terms of a binary, between human rights and state sovereignty. This book outlines and destabilises this false binary in the debate, between the human and the state. It offers methodological tools for questioning the violent institutions at the heart of humanitarian intervention and asking how has intervention been produced as a rational response to crisis.

This book specifically explores the production of military intervention as a Western response to the crisis in Libya in 2011, thus contributing to the ongoing academic conversation in the critical literature on spatiality, resistance, and intervention as a response to crisis. It draws upon postcolonial and poststructural approaches to critical security studies, and will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students of critical security studies and international relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Susannah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Problematising humanitarian intervention 2. Reading security through space and time 3. ‘Their history, our speed’: the temporality of humanitarian war 4. ‘Tripoli, Zero-hour’: Gaddafi, the West and the production of ‘blank-slate ethics’ 5. Geographies of the uprising I: ‘Rag-tag rebels’ and military deficiencies 6. Geographies of the uprising II: Violent cartographies of Western intervention 7. Geographies of the uprising III: Resistances and alternative voices Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Susannah O'Sullivan is Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester, UK.