Understanding War as Punishment: Punitive Logics Beyond the State

ISBN-13: 9780415858762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Teresa Degenhardt

Opis

The notion of crime is frequently used to justify military interventions. Thus military operations are reconstructed as a way of stopping crime and human rights violations and international punishment as a state practice. This book analyses the increasing overlap of criminology and international relations and explores the current use of military technology to control crime and human rights violations in the international sphere.
Drawing on the criminology of punishment, international relations theory and international law, this book examines the emergence of a system of international criminal justice and the transformation of international relations through the juridification of war. Focusing on case studies in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, the book offers a theoretical understanding of the relocation of punishment in the international arena.

Recenzje

"Teresa Degenhardt’s analysis of how penal discourses animate post-Cold War military interventions represents a persuasive and original theoretical advance in the study of war, punishment and governance. Her case studies of Kosovo, Iraq and Libya reveal the operation of diverse modalities of punishment to extend the ambit of international liberal governance. It is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the war and crime nexus."

Ruth Jamieson, Honorary lecturer in Criminology at Queen’s University Belfast

"In this magistral new book, Degenhardt powerfully shows how, as Beccaria had constituted the modern liberal State around the power to punish, so today the global Western State is relying on the power to punish for the construction of its legitimation. On the basis of a careful analysis of events in Kosovo, Libya and, particularly jarring, Iraq, Degenhardt shows the incredible political strength of a rhetoric of power and punishment, particularly relevant today when the struggle around the contours of the global State in Ukraine is often grounded in the claim to bring war as "punishment"."

Dario Melossi, Alma Mater Professor, University of Bologna, and Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

"This is a powerful and satisfying book. It examines how military interventions are driven by both the attempt to protect human rights and by the desire to punish perpetrators. Through a careful analysis of the leading post-Cold War cases, Degenhardt reveals the ambiguities of delivering protection and punishment through violence."

Prof. Roberto Belloni, University of Trento, Italy

"Writing on the cusp of fields as wide as criminology, international relations, and war studies, Teresa Degenhardt analyses in remarkable depth the forms of -and justifications for- international military intervention in the age which, we were told, had arrived at the ‘end of history’. This is a must read for students and researchers in the above fields, and for all those who are beginning to wonder about the future of the ‘end of history’."

Ronnie Lippens, formerly Professor of Criminology at Keele University, UK

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

1 - Introduction

PART I: Discourses

2 - Justifying liberal military interventions at the ‘end of history’: from humanitarian compulsion to collective responsibility

PART II: Practices

3 - The case of Kosovo: from humanitarian compulsion to state-building

4 - The case of Iraq: punitive emotions and the branding of the enemy’s flesh

5 - The case of Libya: from the collective responsibility to protect to devolved surveillance

6 - Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Teresa Degenhardt is a criminologist who teaches at Queen’s University Belfast. She works at the intersection between criminology and international relations, focusing on issues related to processes of criminalization within the international sphere. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the University of Turin.