Brunel University
Politics and History
The purpos e of the projec t, put simply , is to show that securi ty is an illusi on that has forgot ten it is an illusi on. Less simply , that securi ty is a danger ous illusi on. Why 'dange rous'? Becaus e it has come to act as a blocka... more
This paper makes a case for understanding air power through the lens of police. After first rethinking a key period in the history of air power (colonial bombing campaigns) as a police mechanism, the paper then moves to consider the... more
Rather than concerning ourselves with ''governing trauma'' we should instead be concerned with how trauma has come to govern us. Trauma talk now comes naturally, and the article explores what all this trauma talk might be doing,... more
This article challenges a received wisdom in the liberal peace thesis, namely that the roots of the conjunction of liberalism and peace can be traced back to the idea of an essentially pacific commercial civil society in the 18th-century... more
This article explores the transformation of martial law into emergency powers. In so doing it presents an argument about the liberalization of martial law and the constitutionalization of emergency powers. In showing the ways in which the... more
This article explores the place of fear in fascism -the fear experienced by fascism, as found throughout Hitler's writings and speeches, and the fear fascism fabricates in order to sustain itself. The article suggests that this fear... more
This article aims to bring the category of 'primitive accumulation' into the vocabulary of critical and Marxist international legal theory. It does so by first elaborating the critique of international law that has recently developed... more
This article argues that we need to take seriously the centrality of the dead to fascist ideology. Organized around the fascist slogan 'Long Live Death!', the article examines a host of fascist claims and practices centered on the dead.... more
This article explores the link between the territorial imperative of the modern state, the exercise of violence and the practice of cartography. After first tracing the ways in which the exercise of 'non-state' coercion has been either... more