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Nadarajah, Suthaharan and Rampton, David (2015) 'The limits of hybridity and the crisis of liberal peace.' Review of International Studies, 41 (1). pp. 49-72.

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Abstract

Hybridity has emerged recently as a key response in International Relations and peace studies to the crisis of liberal peace. Attributing the failures of liberal peacebuilding to a lack of legitimacy deriving from uncompromising efforts to impose a rigid market democratic state model on diverse populations emerging from conflict, the hybrid peace approach locates the possibility of a ‘radical’, post-liberal, and emancipatory peace in the agency of the local and the everyday and ‘hybrid’ formations of international/liberal and local/non-liberal institutions, practices, and values. However, this article argues, hybrid peace, emerging as an attempt to resolve a problem of difference and alterity specific to the context in which the crisis of liberal peacebuilding manifests, is a problem-solving tool for the encompassment and folding into globalising liberal order of cultural, political, and social orders perceived as radically different and obstructionist to its expansion. Deployed at the very point this expansion is beset by resistance and crisis, hybrid peace reproduces the liberal peace's logics of inclusion and exclusion, and through a reconfiguration of the international interface with resistant ‘local’ orders, intensifies the governmental and biopolitical reach of liberal peace for their containment, transformation, and assimilation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: hybridity, peacebuilding, conflict, liberal order, nationalism, security, Sri Lanka
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Interdisciplinary Studies > Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy
ISSN: 02602105
Copyright Statement: © British International Studies Association 2014. This is the accepted manuscript of an article published by Cambridge University Press in Review of International Studies, available online: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210514000060
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210514000060
Date Deposited: 15 May 2014 09:24
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/18417

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