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Michael Dillon is Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster, UK. He publishes widely in political theory, cultural theory and security studies. He is the author of Politics of Security (1996) and co-editor of Foucault on Politics, Security and War (2008). Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at Kings College London, UK, and Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. He is the author of The Biopolitics of the War on Terror (2007). In Liberal Way of War: The Martial Face of Global Biopolitics Michael Dillon and Julian Reid argue that war under liberal regimes has become biopolitical warfare, an act committed to promoting peace in the name of species survival. This stands in contrast to the traditional view of war as a geo-strategic struggle between international powers. Dillon and Reid engage Foucault>'s ideas about the centrality of security and war to liberal biopolitics and to the maintenance of a modern political order. Following Foucault, Dillon and Reid analyze liberalism as a regime distinguished by biopolitical techniques of power, or acts that aim to regulate forms of life. These techniques of power promote life by eliminating those forms of life that threaten liberal biopolitical life, and which privileges lives based upon racism and evolutionism. If the traditional sense of sovereign warfare states that war is waged on behalf of the sovereign self in relation to territory, nation, or people, biopolitical war is waged on behalf of the species. The Liberal Way of War documents the complicity that exists between contemporary geo-strategic warfare and biopolitical war, and accounts for the advent of "humanitarian" war, the advent of security complexes and the current global war on terror. The Liberal Way of War is a powerful and pathbreaking new understanding of war for our neoliberal times. The authors argue that war under liberal regimes has become biopolitical warfare, an act committed to promoting peace in the name of species survival. The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of species being; what the book calls 'the biohuman'. The book explains how, in making life live, liberal rule finds its expression, today, in making the biohuman live the emergency of its emergence. Chapter 1. Introduction: Foucault and the Governmentalisation of War and SecurityChapter 2. Global Liberal Governance and the Re-problematisations of War and SecurityChapter 3: Terror, Governmentality, and BiopoliticsChapter 4: Network Societies and Network WarfareChapter 5: Global Governance, Liberal Peace and Humanitarian WarChapter 6: After Liberalism? Biopolitics, Security, and War