Table Of ContentThisimportantbookchallengessomeofthefoundationalcategoriesandassump-
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
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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).
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JennyEdkins,AberystwythUniversityandNickVaughan-Williams,
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