Deploying Race, Employing Force: "African Mercenaries" and the 2011 NATO Intervention in Libya

Fallah, K; Tzouvala, N

Deploying Race, Employing Force: "African Mercenaries" and the 2011 NATO Intervention in Libya

Fallah, K

Tzouvala, N

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Publisher:: University of California
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: UCLA Law Review, 2020, 67, (6)
Issue Date:: 2020

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dc.contributor.author	Fallah, K https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2145-8080
dc.contributor.author	Tzouvala, N
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dc.identifier.citation	UCLA Law Review, 2020, 67, (6)
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/144809
dc.description.abstract	This Article reflects on the ongoing synergies between international law, race and empire, as they are articulated in the regulation of mercenarism. It does so by examining the role of the racialized and gendered narratives about “African mercenaries” in the context of the UN Security Council authorization of the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya. By recovering the efforts of the Global South to outlaw the use of (white) mercenaries for the promotion of imperialist causes, and the resistance of Western states against these initiatives, this Article documents the reversal of these attitudes in the case of Libya. In so doing, the authors argue that international law is deeply implicated in the reproduction of racial domination and exploitation.
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dc.title	Deploying Race, Employing Force: "African Mercenaries" and the 2011 NATO Intervention in Libya
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This Article reflects on the ongoing synergies between international law, race and empire, as they are articulated in the regulation of mercenarism. It does so by examining the role of the racialized and gendered narratives about “African mercenaries” in the context of the UN Security Council authorization of the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya. By recovering the efforts of the Global South to outlaw the use of (white) mercenaries for the promotion of imperialist causes, and the resistance of Western states against these initiatives, this Article documents the reversal of these attitudes in the case of Libya. In so doing, the authors argue that international law is deeply implicated in the reproduction of racial domination and exploitation.

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