International Law, Necropolitics, and Arab Lives

The Legalization of Creative Chaos in Arabia

Khaled Al-Kassimi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032307152
• eBook ISBN: 9781000771961
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: Law

International Relations and International Law continue to be accented by epistemic violence by naturalizing a separation between law and morality. What does such positivist juridical ethos make possible when considering that both disciplines reify a secular (immanent) ontology?

International Law, Necropolitics, and Arab Lives emphasizes that positivist jurisprudence (re)conquered Arabia by subjugating Arab life to the power of death using extrajudicial techniques of violence seeking the implementation of a "New Middle East" that is no longer "resistant to Latin-European modernity", but amenable to such exclusionary telos. The monograph goes beyond the limited remonstration asserting that the problématique with both disciplines is that they are primarily "Eurocentric". Rather, the epistemic inquiry uncovers that legalizing necropower is necessary for the temporal coherence of secular-modernity since a humanitarian logic masks sovereignty inherently being necropolitical by categorizing Arab-Islamic epistemology as an internal-external enemy from which national(ist) citizenship must be defended. This creates a sense of danger around which to unite "modern" epistemology whilst reinforcing the purity of a particular ontology at the expense of banning and de-humanizing a supposed impure Arab refugee.

This book will be of interest to graduate students, scholars, and finally, practitioners of international relations, political theory, philosophical theology, and legal-theory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Positivist Jurisprudence: The Secularization of Revealed Law in International Law
• 2. Naturalizing a Separation Between Law and Morality: Pre-emptive War as Just in Arabia
• 3. (Neo)-Orientalist Imaginaries and the “Arab Spring”: Inclusive Exclusion as Ethos of International Law
• 4. The Bethlehem Legal Principles and Operation Timber Sycamore: Legalizing Killing Arab Lives by Hiring War-Machines
• 5. The “Islamist Winter” and Necropolitics: The Displaced Arab as Muselmänner and the Coherence of Secular Modernity
• 6. Conclusion – Harmonizing Revelation with Reason: A Necessary Ontological Limit Structuring a Spiritual Epistemology
• Index