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Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights

Ryan

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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.

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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

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