The effects of the use of bio-security and biopolitics as a way of demographic control

The progressive Israeli-Palestine conflict that ensued back in the mid-20^th century is one of the wide-ranging clashes around the globe (Manzella, & Vapnek, 2007, p.16). In what began as a minor intractable conflict because of the amalgamation of a multicultural population of approximately 10 percent Christians and 86 percent Muslims and 4 percent Jewish, the conflict escalated and is now marked as one of the leading intercultural conflicts. Therefore, below is a structured Theoretical framework illustrating the effects of the use of ethnic security and bio-politics to control the ongoing ethnicity conflict of Israel and Palestine on the residents of the two countries. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Limitation of nationality or state power   The minority state are marginalized and their nationality deprived of them

Bio politics theory ·         Primarily, bio politics refers to the extrapolation of stat of control over both the political bodies and the physical bodies of any demographic composition of population.     ·         The theory is an interdisciplinary response to the many international conflicts cause by social, environmental, and communal clashes. It is structured into three main parts; the voices and bodies, imaginaries and biopolitics bodies as well as social and environment turbulence.     ·         Despite the preference of this method in global community conflict control, the theory has some demographic to the subjects. They include issues such as bio feminism, ethnic strike, race thinking among other intolerances.

Conflict Resolution and control ·         Different conflict resolution methods have been employed such as Mediation and Arbitration but nothing impressive realized. ·         Peace building strategies in uniting the two communities but have turned futile.    ·         Subsequently, the decision to use the bio politics and biosecurity theories to control the population to prevent trigger events to the any further conflict took hold.

Ethnic strike ·         The term refers to an ideological conflict or boycott of responsibities and duty of a given ethnic group to express themselves. In response to the bad rule

Race thinking Race thinking is the act of formulating ideas or come up with issues that have basis perception and belief of racial differences. The theory still imparts these kind of social injustices in the people.   Instradof peace cetio tre mthods athe

Totalitarianism and authoritarianism In democratic states biopolitics incites and enables some degree of participation and self-direction that is completely incompatible with totalitarian and authoritarian structures

Israeli and Palestine Ethical conflict The conflict between Israel and Palestine is an ethical conflict involving multicultural communities with two distinct religious background. The communities entails the Jewish, the Muslims and the Christian that form a proximate percentage of 4, 10, and 86 respectively. The conflict has been on the constant escalation since both the parties the other party is on the wrong, with the Palestine claiming that the land occupied with the Israeli is their given to them by Allah.

Theoretical framework: Demographic effects of biopolitics theory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethno-security theory This is the state where one state of two or more states overwhelmingly controls the political, economic, and social welfare. The condition is mostly threated with minority demographic fertility as the dominating group feel threatened and An outstanding effect of misappropriation of this theory is the ethnic security dilemma, which is fear of extinction of the minor population in this case Palestinians. The growth also result change of policy of the dominating group to keep the minority group in line.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biopolitics theory

Biopolitics theory, the universal theory of governance by Foucault is an excellent political tool in the global community with occasional conflict outbreak. According to Michel Foucault idea, biopolitics is the process of examining the strategies and mechanism through which human life are managed with authority over power, subjectivization, and knowledge. Being the encounter of bio what the Greeks defined as life with the politics, the word encounter merely highlights relationship so biopolitics can be described as a dangerous encounter between life and politics to facilitate governance in a given community conflict. Israel as a nation employs the use of biopolitics theory to control Palestine population residing in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East Jerusalem with the following. Israelis use checkpoints, identity documents, an occupational permit system, state investment, and government agents.       

The mention of biopolitics either as a course or as a form of population control directs people's mind to the overall welfare of the communities, which include their security and health as well as the facets that determine the wellbeing of a particular population biologically and the governance of the community. Therefore, in a nutshell, we can deduce that any form of politics addressed or directed to maintaining the security, health, and wellbeing of given population can no longer be termed as politics based on the above discussion, but instead, is referred to as biopolitics (Lemke, 2011, p. 29).

Biopolitics as a way of controlling two conflicting community is mostly on the use of power which is always political to monitor the wellbeing as well as the activities within a population as the Israel does to their neighbor palatines. The strategy was selected worldwide as the best control method to the sporadic uprising conflicts between different communities, for instance, the one between Palestine and Israel. The strategy was highly endorsed by philosophers since it was seen as a driver community development than political (Manzella, & Vapnek, 2007, p. 26). Political activities and elements like citizenry, voting, democracy and biopolitics brands or defines the seismic changes to the human, health and the devotion of power to life or biology.

In the global and even communities around biopolitics works through different apparatus, apparatus in this context are the things or tools that help the human beings to contribute to the global governance the so called the powers (Mezzadra et al., 2013, p. 28).

On the other hand, the despite, the ability to save it is the most reviewed and contested philosophy on human population control. The centrality of this theory is the fact that it withdraws and refrains before any demand of killing. One of the significant adverse effects of the application of this theory to population is the fact that it limits states power by promoting a form of nationality. Following the above statement, the author Foucault negated his pretension that made earlier concerning the univocal link of the west to the sovereign.

Additionally, biopower governorship having the democratic government on its own it is critical to rights, inclusion, and tolerance and this out make other impacts. The instance mentioned above always brings profound political implications that come with unique constraints to the subjects. Furthermore, such systems lack institutional instruments powerful legal of coercion, therefore, have no option than to depend heavily on tolerance and inclusion (Mezzadra et al. 2013, p.46).

Another severe adverse issue with the use of biopolitics to control population is that fact that, it combats totalitarianism and authoritarianism since the process is carried out in a democratic state. In a democratic country, the process proves stringent because in such as set up biopolitics incites and enables some degree of participation and self-direction that is completely incompatible with totalitarian and authoritarian structures hence a significant challenge to the process.

Biopolitics also influences issues on generic defense, which seems to have been of less concern to the perpetrators and facilitators of the theory. The founders posit that power should not be viewed as a tool of manipulation, oppression, and entrapment but should be seen as a social relation whereby groups and persons have varied levels of sufficient subjectivity and autonomy (Lemke, 2011, p. 54). Nevertheless, the underlying issue concerning this fact is that biopolitics is only genocidal when deployed by a type of government which makes the human right as their priority. Biopolitics being a reversible phenomenon it can also be a tool of resistance.

Governmental practice across the globe has employed the use of biopower in pushing their agenda in governance especially those that touches on human lives such as sexual conduct being one of the concerns, personal health as a discipline domain and much more. In return, the citizens with contrary opinions and ideas concerning the agenda have retaliated by countermands hence the perpetuation of resistance by biopolitics. Finally, yet importantly, bipolitics have also perpetrated some feminine, negative implications such as territorialism together with some ethical effects such as ethnic strike and race thinking.

Ethno –security theory

At the heart of the conflict between the Palestine and the Israelites is the issue of land that has resulted in tremendous tension between the two ethnic groups. As one could expect, for the existence of ethnic security and coexistence, one ethnic group must exercise power politically to arrest the situation what is referred to as ethnic security (Thomas, & Vaduva, 2015, p.24).       

The Zionism movement in Israel, which is the countries’ national ideology Zionists, believes in the fact that Judaism is a religion and a nationality, and that all the Jews should acquire their state in their ancestral homeland (Levine & Mossberg, 2014, p.28). The above ideology by the Israeli government and minority ethnic group fertility, where the minority group grows faster culminated over time in what we call ethnic security dilemma.

In many cases, the majority group, in this case, the Israelites always feels that their security is threatened by the demographic fertility of the minority ethnic group. In instances when the majority group gains more dominance, the majority enjoys immense economic, political, and military control the only weapon left for the other group is the demographic fertility.

The ethnic security in most cases it is applied in the neo-realistic branch of international relations. One outstanding with the demographic security is the fact that different states are always overwhelmed by fear and mistrust, and as a result, they always act on the worst-case of assumption. Thus, in such instance, if in case any group a slight improvement in defense the other state then feels their security is threatened. As a result of the tension then the group will feeling threaten will then take a move to improve their security culminating in an action-reaction dynamic. Notably, although the two states a are only enhancing their security with no intentions but only to provide their security, such moves even the communities even much insecure.

In the case of imperial collapse, where different where various ethnic groups tend to have less relationship and inability to differentiate between defensive and offensive operations always escalates or exacerbates demographic security dilemma (Collins, 2003, p.62).

Some of the effects of this condition of security dilemma are the undermining of ethnic entrepreneurship; it also causes a state of dissatisfaction as emotional heat perpetuated fear of extinction and hatred. In the case of our example, study the Israeli-Palestine ethical rivalry, the population of the Palestinians in the region of East Jerusalem as well as the west bank remain high, and this poses state of unrest to the presiding governance, and that is the Israeli government (Khalili, & Schwedler, 2010, p.18). The high population growth rate of Palestinians in the region led to policy change and formulation of new policies to arrest the large growing population of the Palestinians. Some of the policies imposed on Palestinians were anti-learning.

The Israeli government also securitized the Palestinian population in the occupied territories. The more the Israeli government securitizes the Palestinian population, the greater the population’s difference and the normalization. The Israeli government also considered all the services, accouterment, and social safety nets to provide incentive need of the minority community to bring back the demographic behavior of the group back in line with the Israeli’s (Takeshita, 2012, p.45).  

In conclusion, although the two theories biopolitics and ethnic-security have some limitations in international ethnic governance such as demographic security dilemma, they remain the best management strategies to maintain order and ethnic security in the world. Notably, the progressive conflicting societies such as the case of Israel and Palestine requires no better peace coexistence strategy other than the philosophy of biopolitics and biosecurity of health security. Therefore, due to the existence of challenges, conflicts, disasters, and emergencies across the global these theories are appropriate and should be employed.

 

 

 

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