Solidarity and spheres of culture: The cosmopolitan and the postcolonial

Review of International Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 715-728

  Jabri, Vivienne ^a  

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EID: 34848833926     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: 14699044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210507007747     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. See, for example, Nicholas Wheeler's Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). for the English School, while Charles Beitz and Simon Caney provide accounts of moral conduct framed by cosmopolitan ethics.
2. See respectively, Charles Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999)
3. and Simon Caney, Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
4. The arguments presented in this article derive from a detailed investigation into late-modern war and its implications for global politics. See Vivienne Jabri, War and the Transformation of Global Politics (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
5. ' There is here a wide and varied literature on war, humanitarianism, and prevention deemed to be in the service of humanity. Authors who see liberal wars in terms of the transformation of the international order include Anne-Marie Slaughter, 'International Law in a World of Liberal States', European Journal of International Law, 6 (1995),
6. Lawrence Freedman, 'The Age of Liberal Wars', Review of International Studies, 31 (2005).
7. and Jean Bethke Elshtain, 'International Justice as Equal Regard and the Lise of Force', Ethics and International Affairs, 17 (2003).
8. For a conception of the international as a modern construct, see R. B. J. Walker, Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
9. Anthony Giddens. The Nation-State and Violence (Cambridge: Polity Press. 1985),
10. Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, vol. II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993);
11. and Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States AD 990-1990(Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).
12. There is, of course, a wide literature on cosmopolitanism and debates/classifications therein. See especially Fred Dallmayr, 'Cosmopolitanism: Moral and Political', Political Theory, 31 (2003), pp. 421-42.
13. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations
14. Raymond Guess, 'Liberalism and its Discontents', Political Theory, 30 (2002), p. 327.
15. Of particular significance here is the public agreement between Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas on the distinctiveness of the European project of modernity and its indebtedness to the Enlightenment. See interviews conducted by Giovamia Borradori in her Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
16. John Gray, 'Pluralism and Toleration in Contemporary Political Philosophy', Political Studies, 48 (2000), pp. 323-33. For a distinctly historical understanding of liberalism,
17. see Quentin Skinner, Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988).
18. See especially, Jurgen Habermas, 'Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace, with the Benefit of Two Hundred Years' Hindsight', in James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (eds.), Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1997). On post-Westphalian political community,
19. see Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998).
20. Fred Dallmayr, 'Cosmopolitanism: Moral and Political', Political Theory, 31 (2003), p. 427.
21. Bonnie Honig, "Difference, Dilemmas and the Politics of Home', in Seyla Benhabib (ed.), Democracy and Difference: Contesting Boundaries of the Political (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), p. 258.
22. Siba N. Grovogui, 'Regimes of Sovereignty: International Morality and the African Condition', European Journal of International Relations, 8 (2002), pp. 315-38.
23. Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community, p. 171. For a critique of Linklater along the lines outlined,
24. see Beate Jahn, One Step Forward. Two Steps Back: Critical Theory as the Latest Edition of Liberal Idealism, Millenium, 27:3 (1998), pp. 613-42.
25. Jabri, War and the Transformation of Global Politics, pp. 94-135. For a conceptualisation of liberal interventions in relation to peacebuilding,
26. see Oliver Richmond, The Transfortnation of Peace (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
27. For this Foucaultian inspired conception of war as a technology of government, see Viviemie Jabri, 'War, Security and the Liberal State', Security Dialogue, 37 (2006).
28. See also Michael Dillon, 'Cared to Death: The Biopoliticised Time of Your Life', Foucault Studies, 2 (2005).
29. Richard Falk, 'Legality and Legitimacy: the Quest for Principled Flexibility and Restraint', Review of International Studies, 31 (2005).
30. Sara Ahmed, 'Collective Feelings Or, The Impressions Left By Others', Theory, Culture & Society, 21 (2004), pp. 25-42.
31. As formulated in Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996).
32. Paul Gilroy, After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), p. 39.
33. See especially Edward Said's powerful critique of Western and especially American representations of the Arabs and the Middle East as a region. Edward Said, 'The Arab-American War: The Politics of Information', in his The Politics of Dispossession (London: Chatto and Windus, 1994).
34. Naeem Inayatullah and David Blaney, International Relations and the Problem of Difference (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), p. 117.
35. Jabri, War and the Transformation of Global Politics, pp. 163-89.
36. Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 277.
37. R. B. J. Walker, One World Many Worlds: Struggles for a Just World Peace (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner and Zed Books, 1988), p. 102.
38. I draw this triptych of the universal, as 'real', 'fictive', and 'ideal', from Etienne Balibar's Politics and the Other Scene (London: Verso, 2002), pp. 148-70.
39. Balibar, Politics, p. 161.
40. Balibar, Politics, pp. 167-8.
41. For an excellent rendition on philosophies of negativity, see Diana Coole. Negativity and Politics (Routledge, London 2000).