Global liberal governance: Biopolitics, security and war

Authors
Citation
M. Dillon et J. Reid, Global liberal governance: Biopolitics, security and war, MILLENN-J I, 30(1), 2001, pp. 41
Citations number
73
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
ISSN journal
0305-8298 → ACNP
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-8298(2001)30:1<41:GLGBSA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
This paper forms part of our continuing exploration of the diverse characte r of global liberal governance as a form of global biopolitics. Here we are concerned to draw attention to the ways in which global biopolitics deploy s force and violence. We argue that global biopolitics operates as a strate gic game in which the principle of war is assimilated into the very weft an d warp of the socio-economic and cultural networks of biopolitical relation s and that in the process it has been developing a form of biopolitical str ategic discourse. Biopower is however in the process of moving from the car ceral to the molecular via the digital. We therefore also observe how a com mon biophilosophical strategic interest in the initiation and the manipulat ion of life, seeking to govern it through the laws of connectivity, network forms of organisation and reproduction, has been engendered by the conflue nce of the digital and the molecular revolutions. We trace this development through noting its impact on the biopolitical strategic discourse characte ristic of the liberal way of war, in particular its current Revolution in M ilitary Affairs, and how the emergence of network society has been parallel ed by the emergence of network-centric warfare.