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Rampton, David and Nadarajah, Suthaharan (2016) 'A long view of liberal peace and its crisis.' European Journal of International Relations, 23 (2). pp. 441-465.

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Abstract

The ‘crisis’ of liberal peace has generated considerable debate in International Relations. However, analysis is inhibited by a shared set of spatial, cultural and temporal assumptions that rest on and reproduce a problematic separation between self-evident ‘liberal’ and ‘non-liberal’ worlds, and locates the crisis in presentist terms of the latter’s resistance to the former’s expansion. By contrast, this article argues that efforts to advance liberal rule have always been interwoven with processes of alternative order-making, and in this way are actively integral, not external, to the generation of the subjectivities, contestations, violence and rival social orders that are then apprehended as self-evident obstacles and threats to liberal peace and as characteristic of its periphery. Making visible these intimate relations of co-constitution elided by representations of liberal peace and its crisis requires a long view and an analytical frame that encompasses both liberalism and its others in the world. The argument is developed using a Foucauldian governmentality framework and illustrated with reference to Sri Lanka.

Item Type: Journal Article
Additional Information: First published online by Sage on 16 June 2016
Keywords: Liberal peace, international order, liberalism, nationalism, governmentality, Sri Lanka
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Interdisciplinary Studies > Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy
ISSN: 14603713
Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2016. This is the accepted manuscript of an article published by SAGE in European Journal of International Relations, available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116649029
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066116649029
Date Deposited: 02 May 2016 19:09
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/22353

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