War as Protection and Punishment

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold-War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.

Teresa Degenhardt is a criminologist who teaches at Queen's University Belfast. She works at the intersection between criminology and international relations, focusing on issues related to processes of criminalization within the international sphere. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the University of Turin.

Acknowledgments List of abbreviations 1 - Introduction PART I: Discourses 2 - Justifying liberal military interventions at the 'end of history': from humanitarian compulsion to collective responsibility PART II: Practices 3 - The case of Kosovo: from humanitarian compulsion to state-building 4 - The case of Iraq: punitive emotions and the branding of the enemy's flesh 5 - The case of Libya: from the collective responsibility to protect to devolved surveillance 6 - Conclusion Index