The tenet that I would like to discuss in this Conceptual Response is ‘Liberal Wars have a distinct relationship to territory insomuch as spatiality is firmly bound to active living space’ (Evans, 2011, p.750-751). Liberalism, understanding by most people, is the ideology based on the ideas of equality and freedom. However, in ‘The Liberal War Thesis’, the author Brad Evans illustrates that liberalism is not simply a set of principles, but ‘a regime of power that wages the destiny of the species on the success of its own political strategies’ (Evans, 2011, p.748). Although liberalism has always been associated with the idea of peace and security, it does not equal to pacifism since it was usually realized through violence and wars. Moreover, as we discussed in class, the liberal way of war is to ‘make war on life for the purpose of making life live’, which means that the liberals are using war as a tool to end
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For the reason that the aim of liberal wars is to make life live, thus liberal power has to concern not only the security of the population, but also the management of the resources and environment for people’s survival. According to Evans, the development-environment-sucurity nexus (DESNEX), which mainly takes charge of policing and maintaining the life chances in the past, is creating a ‘a new global settlement’ to manage and care for the biosphere nowadays (Evans, 2011, p.751). For the reason that the liberal way of rule is biopolitical by its definition, so the liberal ways of war have to be biopolitical as well. Hence, this tenet is important to the liberal war thesis because it points out that the liberal power should preserve the capitalist accumulation, at the same time, take good care of the climate and the
For the reason that the aim of liberal wars is to make life live, thus liberal power has to concern not only the security of the population, but also the management of the resources and environment for people’s survival. According to Evans, the development-environment-sucurity nexus (DESNEX), which mainly takes charge of policing and maintaining the life chances in the past, is creating a ‘a new global settlement’ to manage and care for the biosphere nowadays (Evans, 2011, p.751). For the reason that the liberal way of rule is biopolitical by its definition, so the liberal ways of war have to be biopolitical as well. Hence, this tenet is important to the liberal war thesis because it points out that the liberal power should preserve the capitalist accumulation, at the same time, take good care of the climate and the