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Call for Papers: International Studies Association Conference, 1-4 April 2012, San Diego
We invite papers for the following panel proposal:
“From Defeating the Enemy to Creating Order? Perspectives on the Military-Police Nexus in IR”
It is uncontested that the character of Western interventions into spaces of fragility is changing. Under the label of ‘stabilization missions’ short-term oriented security interventions and long-term development endeavors are mobilized in a joint way. By doing so, new roles are assigned to civilian and military actors that challenge the boundary between the two (Hardt/Negri 2000, Rosen 2010). While there is a vibrant debate on the new versatile role of the police in countering insurgency, building peace and re-building states (Greener 2009, Bayley and Perito 2010, Sedra 2010), the military’s reinvention as a ‘policing actor’ geared towards maintaining or creating ‘order’ in ‘fragile’ settings remains under-researched. Western militaries, especially the US military, aim at sustaining their new ‘civilian expertise’ and expanding their responsibilities in matters of civilian governance by mobilizing diplomatic, humanitarian and development practices. Only the combination of studying the militarization of the police and studying the civilianization, or possibly more correct, the police-ization of the military allows for a deeper understanding of the multiple configurations of liberal interventionism “as a way of international life” (Darby 2009, see also Kraska 2007, Neocleous 2000, Bell/Evans 2010 and Fassin/Pandolfi 2010).
This panel aims at bringing together innovative scholarship that examines the arenas where the military, the civilian and the police meet and where traditional understandings of these categories are challenged. Contributions are invited on but not limited to these topics:
- New rationales and practices in police-military relations
- The repositioning of Western militaries towards stabilization, ‘human security,’ and governance issues
- Issues of information/communication and the new spatialities of contemporary war-policing interventions
- Theorizations of policing power in the export of liberal order to the global South
- Practices and effects of ‘civilian’ activities of military units (e.g. within the US Africa Command, US Southern Command, Provincial Reconstruction Teams, Human Terrain Teams)
- The politics of expertise and trusteeship in military-police operations
Please send your abstracts of around 200 words by 25 May 2011 to [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
Best wishes
Jan
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