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Call for Papers "Globalisation and War" Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies (JCGS) Issue 2 (2010) __________________________________________________ Many traditional IR debates and global ‘outlooks’ are constructed upon the Westphalian system of equality between sovereign states, embracing the principle of territoriality and encouraging the globalisation of capital between states. This so-called ‘world order’ was built around the notion of consensus alongside the ‘occasional’ and ‘necessary’ use of brute force. However, 'enemies' have now arguably become stateless, transnational, and networked identities: effectively utilising the changing spatiality of global politics and interaction to their own ends. In response, many states have employed covert and subversive techniques, increasingly enacted by overlapping border, intelligence and police forces in order to categorise and control more fluid forms of ‘threat'. As such, armed forces are more often than not used to quell civil unrest and fight against ‘unpopular’ regimes, often under the global umbrella of increasingly solidifying, but at the same time contested, global norms such as democracy, humanitarianism and international law. Any analysis of the relationship between globalisation and war, therefore, is also an analysis of the state itself: the territorial trap becomes both visible and invisible, and the increasingly complex spatiality and multi-scalar nature of global politics, global interactions and global transformations are brought to the fore. We are looking for full articles (up to 10,000 words) and polemics (short articles up to 5000 words). Published contributions will be available free online and included within our limited-run print edition. Please email Article abstracts to: [email protected] Polemic abstracts to: [email protected] Abstracts are subject to editorial selection. Upon successful submission you will be invited to submit a full manuscript by 1st December, 2009. Manuscripts will be subject to anonymous peer review before publication. Contact: Didem Buhari Gulmez, Associate Editor Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies Department of Politics and International Relations Royal Holloway University of London Egham, Surrey UK Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.criticalglobalisation.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
