Peace Forged by Warfare: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70 Years After

Rodrigues, Thiago; Maciel, Tadeu; Duarte, João Paulo

doi:10.1590/S0102-8529.2019420200001

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Research Articles • Contexto int. 42 (2) • May-Aug 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.2019420200001 copy

Peace Forged by Warfare: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70 Years After

Paz Forjada pela Guerra: A Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos 70 Anos Depois

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Abstract

The 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in December 2018 created a need to problematise its precepts and their political consequences in contemporary times. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s genealogical approach to power, this article analyses the normative inscription of the UDHR as the emergence of a juridical-political device that produces new modulations of biopolitics. As such, it is not based on peace, as is commonly argued, but on the permanent reinscription of war, sometimes in dimensions that go beyond the boundaries of sovereignty.

Keywords
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; politics as warfare; biopolitics; re-inscription of war; Foucauldian analyses.

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[1] Thiago Rodrigues is an associate professor at the Institute for Strategic Studies (INEST/UFF), Brazil. He is the director of the research network “Security and Defense in the Americas” (SeDeAMERICAS), www.sedeamericas.com; Twitter: @DefenseAmericas. He is also an invited professor at the MBA on International Relations at FGV, a columnist on drug policies for Carta Capital, director of institutional relations of Brazil’s Defense Studies Association (ABED) and a board member of the think-tank CRIES (Argentina). Rodrigues holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from PUC-SP (Brazil) and Sorbonne Nouvelle (France). His latest publications, in collaboration, include ‘Mano Dura y Democracia en América Latina’ (América Latina Hoy, 2020), ‘México y el narcoanálisis’ (Colombia Internacional, 2019) and ‘Brazil: Violence and Public (un)Safety’ (in Violence in the Americas, 2018).