Overview
- Analyzes R2P at the intersections of international political economy and security studies
- Historicizes R2P in the UN Charter/resolutions/ and the UN sponsored security/development commissions
- Empirical mapping of R2P within and outside the UN
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book builds upon Foucauldian scholarship’s compelling interrogations that have contributed to the changing conceptualization of the premises of the discipline of International Relations.
This epistemological ‘glasnost’ facilitates the analysis of the United Nations General Assembly endorsed ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) as not merely a security but a security/development measure. This book unpacks the conditions that on one hand necessitate such measures and on the other hand, allow the subsequent dilution of their radical promise. This framing and analysis of R2P has implications beyond R2P. Increasingly, citizens converted into populations are shepherded by the state to chambers of partial, if not total surrender of civil liberties, standard of living, and well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated such measures for people in the Global South, who since the inception of the post Second World War order continue to await their turn to be the beneficiary ofdevelopment. The development, initially prescribed by the modernization theorists, echoed subsequently in the 1980s by the good governance promoter—World Bank—continues to elude most in the Global South. Indeed, the region’s political and economic instability is often the site that renders as a truism, Foucault’s upending of Clausewitz’s dictum—‘War is the pursuit of politics by other means’—with ‘Politics is the pursuit of war by other means.’ The thanatopolitics (politics of death) of these ‘failed,’ ‘failing,’ or ‘flailing,’ states, is the reason why their populations are seen to be in frequent need for the operationalization of the international community’s ‘responsibility to protect.’
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rina Kashyap is Associate Professor of Politics at the Lady Shri Ram College of Women, (University of Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Security/Development in the Neoliberal Age
Book Subtitle: R2P and the UN
Authors: Rina Kashyap
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37279-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37278-0Published: 19 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37281-0Due: 19 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37279-7Published: 18 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 273
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations Theory, International Relations