Vivienne Jabri

Bio: Vivienne Jabri is an academic researcher from Department of War Studies, King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: International relations & Politics. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 48 publications receiving 1353 citations. Previous affiliations of Vivienne Jabri include King's College London.

After Snowden: Rethinking the Impact of Surveillance

Abstract: Current revelations about the secret US-NSA program, PRISM, have confirmed the large-scale mass surveillance of the telecommunication and electronic messages of governments, companies, and citizens, including the United States' closest allies in Europe and Latin America. The transnational ramifications of surveillance call for a re-evaluation of contemporary world politics' practices. The debate cannot be limited to the United States versus the rest of the world or to surveillance versus privacy; much more is at stake. This collective article briefly describes the specificities of cyber mass surveillance, including its mix of the practices of intelligence services and those of private companies providing services around the world. It then investigates the impact of these practices on national security, diplomacy, human rights, democracy, subjectivity, and obedience.

Discourses on Violence: Conflict Analysis Reconsidered

Abstract: Conflict and peace studies - setting the parameters theoretical and methodological questions in conflict studies mobilization and the emergence of conflict heterogeneity, power, the discursive mode and conflict roles, institutions and modes of conflict behaviour decision-making, conflict termination and negotiation mediation types and the challenge of track II diplomacy a critical evaluation of the field - towards post-modernist conflict studies.

War and the transformation of global politics

Abstract: Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding War and Violence Chapter 2: The Politics of Global War Chapter 3: Late Modernity, War and Peace Chapter 4: War, the International, the Human Chapter 5: War and the Politics of Cultural Difference Chapter 6: Beyond War and by Way of a Conclusion: Solidarity, the Politics of Peace and Political Cosmopolitanism Notes Bibliography Index

The Postcolonial Subject: Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity

Abstract: 1. Tracing the Postcolonial Subject 2. Policing Access to the Modern: Power, Fear, Resistance 3. Resistance as the Claim to Politics 4. Reclaiming the International: Resistance in Cosmopolitan Space 5. Governing Others: War and Operations of Power in Late Modernity 6. Creative Politics and Postcolonial Agency

War, Security and the Liberal State:

Abstract: War in late modern politics is a technology of control. While its violent manifestations – for example, the invasion and occupation of Iraq – are directly felt by the population targeted, the pract...

The New Imperialism

Abstract: From a world history perspective, the most noticeable trend in the history of the late 19th century was the domination of Europeans over Non­Europeans. This domination took many forms ranging from economic penetration to outright annexation. No area of the globe, however remote from Europe, was free of European merchants, adventurers, explorers or western missionaries. Was colonialism good for either the imperialist or the peoples of the globe who found themselves subjects of one empire or another? A few decades ago, the answer would have been a resounding no. Now, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the more or less widespread discrediting of Marxist and Leninist analysis, and the end of the Cold War, political scientists and historians seem willing to take a more positive look at Nineteenth Century Imperialism. One noted current historian, Niall Ferguson has argued that the British Empire probably accomplished more positive good for the world than the last generation of historians, poisoned by Marxism, could or would concede. Ferguson has argued that the British Empire was a \" liberal \" empire that upheld international law, kept the seas open and free, and ultimately benefited everyone by ensuring the free flow of trade. In other words, Ferguson would find little reason to contradict the young Winston Churchill's assertion that the aim of British imperialism was to: give peace to warring tribes, to administer justice where all was violence, to strike the chains off the slave, to draw the richness from the soil, to place the earliest seeds of commerce and learning, to increase in whole peoples their capacities for pleasure and diminish their chances of pain. It should come as no surprise that Ferguson regards the United States current position in the world as the natural successor to the British Empire and that the greatest danger the U.S. represents is that the world will not get enough American Imperialism because U.S. leaders often have short attention spans and tend to pull back troops when intervention becomes unpopular. It will be very interesting to check back into the debate on Imperialism about ten years from now and see how Niall Ferguson's point of view has fared! The other great school of thought about Imperialism is, of course, Marxist. For example, Marxist historians like E.J. Hobsbawm argue that if we look at the l9th century as a great competition for the world's wealth and …

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

Abstract: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. 2004. New York. Penguin Books. 448 pages. ISBN: 0143035592 (paper).

The Sexual Contract

Abstract: 1. Contracting In. 2. Patriarchal Confusions. 3. Contract, the Individual and Slavery. 4. Genesis, Fathers and the Political Liberty of Sons. 5. Wives, Slaves and Wage-Slaves. 6. Feminism and the Marriage Contract. 7. What's Wrong with Prostitution?

The Evolution of International Security Studies

Abstract: International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, ‘new agenda’ or critical. • The first book to tell the post-1945 story of International Security Studies and offer an integrated historical sociology of the whole field • Opens the door to a long-overdue conversation about what ISS is and where it should be going • Provides a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources