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A case of failed 'rehabilitation'? The biopolitics and geopolitics of military intervention in Libya

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This paper interrogates the biopolitics and geopolitics of the Western-led military intervention in Libya of 2011. The Foucauldian concept 'dispositif is deployed to grasp how a network of different international actors, practices, discourses, and technologies of power were oriented towards biopolitically securing the Libyan population prior to the intervention. The paper takes as an example the development practices of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which sought to secure the Libyan population through biopolitical technologies of governance like 'human security' and 'human development'. The paper argues that it is the apparent failure of these efforts, as shown through stagnated democratization and liberalization under Muammar Gaddafi's rule, which foregrounded the spectacular display of sovereign/biopower by Western governments during the military intervention. It is thus a failed rehabilitation of the Libyan government, which led powerful Western governments to pursue their biopolitical and geopolitical objectives in Libya through more violent mean

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

J 297.272 Mus

Penerbit

: UIII Press., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

32 hlm, 28 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

2829-3568

Klasifikasi

297.272

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

VOL. 3 NO. 2

Subjek

Politik Islam

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