Peace as War

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2010-10-01

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Polat, Necati

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This article seeks to reimagine peace against the backdrop of a Foucauldian understanding of politics. Most conventional accounts are based. on a sharp distinction between war and peace and alternate between two broad positions; namely, peace as absence, the absence of war, and peace as presence, as an essential condition. These two visions of peace are often assumed to have found their classical statements in, respectively, Hobbes and Spinoza. The article resists such a binary treatment, bringing Hobbes and Spinoza close together through Spinoza's view of peace as potentia and Hobbes's view of war as process. The result is one that seems to vindicate Foucault: peace is war.

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Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41701

Journal

ALTERNATIVES

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/030437541003500401

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Department of International Relations, Article

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N. Polat, “Peace as War,” ALTERNATIVES, pp. 317–345, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41701.