In a world plagued by war and terror, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence sounds a warning: not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and respond to them will only prolong the crisis. When security is grounded in exclusion and alienation, ethics licenses killing and war, and freedom is a mask for imperial violence, how should we act?
Anthony Burke offers a groundbreaking analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism. He pursues critical engagements with thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Emmanuel Levinas, Carl Von Clausewitz, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, Michel Foucault and William Connolly. Combining a diversity of critical thought with analyses of the War on Terror, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Vietnam War, the Indonesian crisis, globalization and the new drive for empire, Burke refuses easy answers, or to abandon hope.
This innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of politics and international relations, security studies, social and cultural theory and philosophy.
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This book provides a critical response to traditional views on security aimed at an IR audience, but also drawing on philosophy and cultural studies.
Anthony Burke is an up-and-coming Australian scholar who has gained visibility in Europe and the USA through his editorship of the Borderlands e-journal and his book, In Fear of Security.
He is known for critical IR security studies, which puts him in an excellent and authoritative position to counter the pro-war views that have flooded the book market.
A key strength of this book is that Burke's writing style, he successfully translates difficult and complex theories and concepts into clear jargon-free analyses without dumbing down.
The book includes case studies on Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war on terror, East Timor and Indonesia, refugee politics, Australian identity, the Vietnam War, Asia-Pacific geopolitics, the international political economy, and the United States.
Introduction: Security, Freedom and Death Part 1: Security 1. Aporias of Security: From the Leviathan to the Security State 2. Poetry Outside Security: The Jagged Edges of Southeast Asia 3. Security After Security: Israel, Palestine and the Wall Part 2: Ethics 4. Strangers without Strangeness: Power and Difference between Australia and Indonesia 5. The Perverse Perseverance of Sovereignty 6. Just War or Ethical Peace? Morality and Strategic Violence After 9/11 Part 3: Violence 7. Violence and Reason on the Shoals of Vietnam 8. Iraq: Strategy´s Burnt Offering 9. Freedom´s Freedom: American Enlightenment and Permanent War
Anthony Burke offers a ground breaking analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism.
When security is grounded in exclusion and alienation, ethics licenses killing and war, and freedom is a mask for imperial violence, how should we act? This book offers an analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security; a critique of just war theory; and several essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism.
Über den Autor
Anthony Burke is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Security, Freedom and Death Part 1: Security 1. Aporias of Security: From the Leviathan to the Security State 2. Poetry Outside Security: The Jagged Edges of Southeast Asia 3. Security After Security: Israel, Palestine and the Wall Part 2: Ethics 4. Strangers without Strangeness: Power and Difference between Australia and Indonesia 5. The Perverse Perseverance of Sovereignty 6. Just War or Ethical Peace? Morality and Strategic Violence After 9/11 Part 3: Violence 7. Violence and Reason on the Shoals of Vietnam 8. Iraq: Strategy¿s Burnt Offering 9. Freedom¿s Freedom: American Enlightenment and Permanent War
Klappentext
Anthony Burke offers a ground breaking analysis of the historical roots of sovereignty and security, his critique of just war theory, and important new essays on strategy, the concept of freedom and US exceptionalism.
