Showing papers by "Gregor Noll published in 2008"
TL;DR: The authors argued that the paucity of norms on the use of force in contemporary international law serves a distinct function, leaving room for a violence that promotes the preservation and cohesion of a group, a community.
Abstract: Drawing on Rene Girard's Violence and the Sacred, this text argues that the paucity of norms on the use of force in contemporary international law serves a distinct function. It leaves room for a violence that promotes the preservation and cohesion of a group, a community. This violence has been termed "generative", and the structure created by international law around it and that occurrence of violence itself reproduces the relationship of prophecy to miracle. To prove this point, international legal texts as the U.S. National Security Strategy as well as doctrinal writing are subjected to analysis.
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TL;DR: The authors apply Girard's theory of generative violence to the international law relating to the use of force and argue that texts of international law make gestures of referral towards an immanent normativity on the fettering of divine violence.
Abstract: In this article, I apply Rene Girard's theory of generative violence to the international law relating to the use of force. I argue that texts of international law make gestures of referral towards an immanent normativity on the fettering of divine violence. The means to this end is a form of sacrificial violence that seeks to promote the preservation and cohesion of the ‘international community’. The structuring of this violence through international law and its repeated staging reproduces the relationship of prophecy to miracle. Empirically, I draw mainly on excerpts from the 2006 US National Security Strategy.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors ask whether the asylum system is a way to regulate the informal labour market within the EU, and the crux of the matter is that both are repeatedly branded as an ‘illegal’ phenomena which must be ‘battled’ like enemies.
Abstract: Governments attempting to regulate labour markets and control immigration are confronted with difficult questions. In the past, there was general agreement that the asylum system should not be exploited as a side entrance to the labour market. The two systems—asylum and labour market—were to be planned and maintained separately. But if migration is a prerequisite for asylum, does not increasingly stiffer migration control block escape for those under persecution? Prices for smuggling go up, and smugglers seek new routes, yet irregular migration continues, and the informal labour market flourishes. Here we must ask an irreverent question: is there any point in having both systems? And can the crux of the matter be that both are repeatedly branded as an ‘illegal’ phenomena which must be ‘battled’ like enemies? This contribution asks whether the asylum system a way to regulate the informal labour market within the EU?
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate incidental and lawful losses of civilians in the regulation of international humanitarian law as part of a symbolic order restraining violent conflict within communities, drawing on the work of Rene Girard.
Abstract: Drawing on the work of Rene Girard, his text inquires into incidental and lawful losses of civilians in the regulation of international humanitarian law as part of a symbolic order restraining violent conflict within communities. First, I inquire into central norms on targeting in IHL, explaining their internal inconsistencies. Second, I try to show that these inconsistencies can be explaining by applying Girard's theory on sacrificial violence.
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