ABSTRACT Today’s military interventions are best understood as a form of counter-insurgency politics. Counter-insurgency politics constructs a distinctive type of rule and governance through military intervention. It normalises the use of military force in the management and suppression of instability instead of resolving conflict. Its practices are not predisposed to the usual International Relations binaries, however, as counter-insurgency politics involves a multitude of global governance structures and networks countering or preventing terrorism and violent extremism. The typical binary categories used in analyses of intervention are of little use because counter-insurgency politics signals a capacity to authorise discriminations in ways that elude them. So the basis of our political and analytical judgement is shaken, as the state-international line still informs legal, moral and political judgements about intervention while also being challenged by the international politics of counter-insurgency. Mali and the Sahel are a rich and evolving case for theorising counter-insurgency politics.

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干预作为平叛政治

摘要今天的军事干预最好被理解为一种平叛政治的形式。平叛政治通过军事干预来构建独特的统治和治理类型。它规范了在管理和抑制不稳定方面使用武力，而不是解决冲突。但是，由于反叛乱政治涉及众多全球治理结构和网络来对抗或预防恐怖主义和暴力极端主义，因此其做法并不适合通常的国际关系二进制文件。在干预分析中使用的典型二元类别几乎没有用，因为反叛乱政治表明有能力以避开歧视的方式批准歧视。因此，我们的政治和分析判断的依据被动摇了，由于国家与国际之间的关系仍然可以为关于干预的法律，道德和政治判断提供依据，同时也受到国际反叛政治的挑战。马里和萨赫勒地区是反叛政治理论的一个丰富而不断发展的案例。