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THE LIBERAL WAY OF WAR IBD

JULIAN REID / MICHAEL DILLON
ROUTLEDGE
02 / 2009
9780415953009
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Sinopsis

The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated, this book traces that correlation to liberalismâÇÖs original commitment to âÇÖmaking life liveâÇÖ. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of species being, what the book calls âÇÖthe biohumanâÇÖ. Tracking the advent of the age of life-as-information - complex, adaptive and emergent - while contrasting biopolitics with geopolitics, the book details how and why the liberal way of rule wages war on the human in the cause of instituting the biohuman. Contingent and emergent, the biohuman is however continuously also becoming-dangerous to itself. It therefore requires constant surveillance to anticipate the threats it presents to its own flourishing. áThe book explains how, in making life live, liberal rule finds its expression, today, in making the biohuman live the emergency of its emergence. Thus does liberal peace become the continuation of war by other means. Just as the information and molecular revolutions have combined to transform liberal military-strategic thinking so also has it contributed to the discourse of global danger through which global liberal governance currently legitimates the liberal way of war.