ASKERİ FANTEZİLER: ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLERDE İMKÂNSIZIN SİYASETİ
MILITARY FANTASIES: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE POLITICS OF THE (IM)POSSIBLE

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I take my departure point the reconceptualization of the very idea of security in the 21st century and the concomitant shift in the logic of security governance from the management of calculable risks towards management of incalculable, uncertifiable risks, and attend to the ways in which this shift has reflected in military strategic thought and planning. I focus on contemporary military futurology and analyze “military fantasies” as a discursive medium through which security constitutes and projects itself onto the world. I argue that under the logic of risk that drives contemporary politics of security, imagination itself has become a battlefield. Although the fascination of politics and strategic thought with the future is not a novel development, I note that the contemporary attempts to govern the future by pre-empting any surprises is very much tied to the desire to rule the present.

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