Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights

Ryan

Abstract

The paper forms a Foucauldian analysis of police reforms in Montenegro. Drawing on interviews with police officers at all ranks in 2004, undertaken as reform was commencing, and on interviews undertaken in 2010, after Montenegro's independence, the paper explores the biopolitics of liberalisation. The paper aims to demonstrate norms of internal security liberalisation that operate beyond a legal understanding of state power. It illustrates the operation of a rule of police that produces norms conducive to the governance of a dynamic market state. It argues that the rule of police subsists within but also subverts the rule of law and the human rights approach to democratic development.

Citation

Ryan. (2019). Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights. The International Journal of Human Rights, 23(4), 476-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2016.1161211

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 2, 2016
• Publication Date: Apr 21, 2019
• Journal: The International Journal of Human Rights
• Print ISSN: 1364-2987
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 476-492
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2016.1161211
• Keywords: police, biopolitics, human rights, Foucault, liberalization
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2016.1161211