Inversion of the 'Duty of Care': Diplomacy and the Protection of Citizens Abroad, from Pastoral Care to Neoliberal Governmentality
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Inversion of the 'Duty of Care': Diplomacy and the Protection of Citizens Abroad, from Pastoral Care to Neoliberal Governmentality. / Tsinovoi, Alexei; Adler-Nissen, Rebecca.
In: Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2018, p. 211-232.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Inversion of the 'Duty of Care': Diplomacy and the Protection of Citizens Abroad, from Pastoral Care to Neoliberal Governmentality
AU - Tsinovoi, Alexei
AU - Adler-Nissen, Rebecca
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The concept of ‘duty of care’ for citizens abroad is grounded in a political rationality where the population is seen as an object for protection by the state. In today’s globalised world, however, this rationality is challenged by increased citizen mobility, budget cuts, new information technologies and the proliferation of new security threats. In recent years the state’s duty of care has received fresh political and scholarly attention, but Diplomatic Studies have so far overlooked how the recent waves of neoliberal reforms have introduced a new political rationality into policy-making circles, where the population is not seen only as an object for protection, but also as a resource for mobilisation. Developing insights from studies of governmentality, this article argues that when this neoliberal political rationality becomes predominant in diplomatic circles, it leads to inversion of the duty of care through new citizen-based practices, steered at a distance by the state.
AB - The concept of ‘duty of care’ for citizens abroad is grounded in a political rationality where the population is seen as an object for protection by the state. In today’s globalised world, however, this rationality is challenged by increased citizen mobility, budget cuts, new information technologies and the proliferation of new security threats. In recent years the state’s duty of care has received fresh political and scholarly attention, but Diplomatic Studies have so far overlooked how the recent waves of neoliberal reforms have introduced a new political rationality into policy-making circles, where the population is not seen only as an object for protection, but also as a resource for mobilisation. Developing insights from studies of governmentality, this article argues that when this neoliberal political rationality becomes predominant in diplomatic circles, it leads to inversion of the duty of care through new citizen-based practices, steered at a distance by the state.
KW - Consular assistance
KW - duty of care
KW - political rationality
KW - Foucault
KW - governmentality
KW - neoliberalism
KW - citizen diplomacy
KW - diplomacy
KW - care
KW - Public Diplomacy
U2 - 10.1163/1871191X-11302017
DO - 10.1163/1871191X-11302017
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 211
EP - 232
JO - The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
JF - The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
SN - 1871-1901
IS - 2
ER -
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