From security to resilience? (Neo)liberalism, war and terror after 9/11

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¹ Julian Reid, “The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience and the Art of Living Dangerously,” Revista Pléyade 10 (2012): 143–65 (144).

² Why should we not, for example, understand resilience as a particular modality or instantiation of the language of security?

³ Conservative Party, A Resilient Nation: National Security Green Paper (London: Conservative Party, 2010).

⁴ Brad Evans and Julian Reid, “Dangerously Exposed: The Life and Death of the Resilient Subject,” Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses 1, no. 2 (2013): 83–98.

⁵ Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (Oxford: OUP, 1981).

⁶ Michel Foucault, Society Must be Defended (New York: Picador, 2003), 243.

⁷ Dillon and Reid have recently been accused of ‘reductionism’ in this regard. See Andreas Behnke, ‘Eternal Peace, Perpetual War? A Critical Investigation into Kant's Conceptualisations of War,’ Journal of International Relations and Development 15, no. 2 (2012): 250–71.

⁸ For example, Gordon Brown's (2008) speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) on ‘liberty and security’.

⁹ Kevin Jon Heller, “‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’: Signature Strikes and International Law,” Journal of International Criminal Justice 11, no. 1 (2013): 88–119.

¹⁰ Slavoj Žižek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (London: Profile Books, 2008).

¹¹ From the Latin phrase ipse dixit, translated by Cicero from an Ancient Greek phrase meaning ‘he, himself (the master) said it’. Ipse dixit was historically used, especially by reference to ‘giants’ of philosophy like Aristotle, to foreclose further debate and appeal to certainty.

¹² Brad Evans and Mark Duffield, “Biospheric Security: The Development-Security-Environment-Nexus [DESNEX], Containment and Retrenching Fortress Europe,” in A Threat Against Europe?Security, Migration and Integration, eds J. Peter Burgess and Serge Gutwirth (Antwerp: VUB Press, 2011), 93–110.

¹³ Louise Amoore has written extensively and eloquently on this, including: “Algorithmic War: Everyday Geographies of the War on Terror,” Antipode 41, no. 1 (2009): 49–69.

¹⁴ Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008).

¹⁵ See Jonathan Joseph, “Resilience as Embedded Neoliberalism,” Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses 1, no. 1 (2013): 38–52.

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Ben Whitham

Ben Whitham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, where his doctoral research is funded under the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Programme, ‘The Liberal Way of War: Strategy, Ideology, Representations’.