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Thisimportantbookchallengessomeofthefoundationalcategoriesandassump- tions of mainstream international relations theory by insisting that practices that take place in the colonies inevitably travel back to the metropole and transform modes of governance and governmentality at home. By examining the dis- placementofthecampasatechniqueofcarcerality,surveillancetechnologies, and neoliberal political economies from “over there” (Iraq, Afghanistan or Latin America) to “overhere”, Barderbrilliantly shows the processes that are central to the imperial management of populations at home and abroad. Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK In this outstanding book, Alexander Barder provides a powerful and enticing accountofthecentralityofhierarchyintheinternationalmovementofnormsand practices. Offering a fascinating analysis of transnational flows of violence, sur- veillancetechniquesandneoliberalpolicy,Barderrevealsthemultidirectionaldif- fusion of norms, which transforms not only imperial domains but also their metropoles. Especially noteworthy is the focus on the experimentation of the UnitedStatesinitsperiphery,experimentationwhichcomestohaveramifications forU.S.democracy.EmpireWithinisamust-readforscholarsinterestedinnorm diffusion,globalization[humanrights?]andhierarchyininternationalsociety Ann Towns, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Alexander Barder has returned imperialism to international relations theory, which had long persisted in the view that the world is flat. His geography is more uneven, but with imperial power nonetheless on display here and there. And then what it learns 'there' is not insulated, but makes itsway back ‘here.’ A terrific antidote to the leaden approaches to international power. Vijay Prashad, author, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South If empire’s victims intuitively recognise in the sufferings of the metropoles’ peoples a repeat of their own experience of violence and erasure, Empire Within unravels the genealogy of this disturbingly common destiny. Barder offers a fascinating, chilling account of empirebrought home, and a reminder that knowledges rarely stagnate or dissolve — in the flux of human activity nothing is lost, all is translated. This simultaneously delineates a new horizon of postcolonial solidarity born of a shared experience that can reinvest older knowledges of resistance for today’s common struggles. Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Aberystwyth University, UK This page intentionally left blank Empire Within This book explores the reverberating impacts between historical and con- temporary imperial laboratories and their metropoles through three case stu- dies concerning violence, surveillance and political economy. The invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 forced the United States to experiment and innovate in considerable ways. Faced with growing insurgencies that called into question its entire mission, the occupation authorities engaged in a series of tactical and technological innovations that changed the way they combated insurgents and managed local populations. This book presents new material through three case studies concerning vio- lence, surveillance and political economy, to develop the argument that imperialandcolonialcontextsfunctionasalaboratoryinwhichtechniquesof violence, population control and economic principles are developed and sub- sequently introduced into the domestic society of the imperial state. The text challengesthewidelytakenforgrantednotionthatthediffusionofnormsand techniques is a one-way street from the imperial metropole to the dependent or weak periphery. This work will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, critical security studies and international relations theory. AlexanderD. Barder isapolitical scientistatFlorida International University in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Barder is the author (with François Debrix) of Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence and Horror in World Politics (Routledge, 2011). Interventions JennyEdkins,AberystwythUniversityandNickVaughan-Williams, UniversityofWarwick The Series provides a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary work that engages with alternative critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, psy- choanalytic and cultural approaches to international relations and global politics. In our first 5 yearswe have published 60 volumes. The Series provides a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary work that engages with alternative critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, psy- choanalytic and cultural approaches to international relations and global politics. In our first 5 yearswe have published 60 volumes. We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: just contact us for advice or proposal guidelines. Proposals should be submitted directly to the Series Editors: Jenny Edkins ([email protected]) and Nick Vaughan-Williams ([email protected]) As Michel Foucault has famously stated, ‘knowledge is not made for under- standing; it is made for cutting’. In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge main- stream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to con- tributepostdisciplinaryworksthatthinkratherthanmerelyrecognize and affirm the world recycled in IR’s traditional geopolitical imaginary. Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars workingwithinbroadcriticalpost-structuralandpost-colonialtraditionshave chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, pol- itics and other disciplines, and provide situated historical, empirical and tex- tual studies in international politics. Critical Theorists and International Relations Edited by Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams Ethics as Foreign Policy Britain, the EU and the other Dan Bulley Universality, Ethics and Spatiality, Sovereignty and International Relations Carl Schmitt A grammatical reading Geographies of the nomos Véronique Pin-Fat Edited by Stephen Legg The Time of the City Politics of Urbanism Politics, philosophy, and genre Seeing like a city Michael J. 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