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From Martial Law to the War on Terror

2007; University of California Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/nclr.2007.10.4.489

1933-4206

Mark Neocleous,

Political Theology and Sovereignty

This article explores the transformation of martial law into emergency powers. In so doing it presents an argument about the liberalization of martial law and the constitutionalization of emergency powers. In showing the ways in which the powers of martial rule have become normalized within liberal democracies the article points to an ideological circuit between emergency powers and the logic of security, a circuit most apparent in the current "war on terror."