When defiance turns into violence: status, roles, and killing thy enemy
How, when, and why do governments use lethal violence against dissenting citizens residing outside of their jurisdiction? Beyond state-led forms of forceful repression of citizens, an increasing number of autocratic governments have targeted and killed a growing number of individuals outside their t...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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The journal of transcultural studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 139-178 |
| ISSN: | 2191-6411 |
| DOI: | 10.17885/heiup.jts.2023.1-2.24991 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.jts.2023.1-2.24991 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/transcultural/article/view/24991 
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| Author Notes: | Sebastian Harnisch |
| Summary: | How, when, and why do governments use lethal violence against dissenting citizens residing outside of their jurisdiction? Beyond state-led forms of forceful repression of citizens, an increasing number of autocratic governments have targeted and killed a growing number of individuals outside their territories, using highly symbolic means, such as nerve agent poisonings, public hangings, and airplane high-jackings. Despite a growing interest in targeted killings in general and (trans-)national repression in particular, the field of International Relations still lacks a theoretical explanation for these state ordered politically directed murders beyond borders. Bringing together recent advances in state and role theory as well as studies of norm transformation on targeted killing, I propose a comparative approach that interprets state-ordered public killings as acts of defiance to restore dominant status roles of autocratic governments vis-à-vis critical citizens and a liberal international society. I illustrate my argument through two cases, Russia and North Korea, identifying two variants of defiant political murder, preemptive (Russian) and emancipatory (North Korea). |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 04.06.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2191-6411 |
| DOI: | 10.17885/heiup.jts.2023.1-2.24991 |