“Moral Entrepreneurs”, Migrant Sovereignties and Barbed Wire.
The contemporary frontiers of Albania and of post-war Kosovo are dangerously exposed to the new humanitarian geopolitics, because the humanitarian is solidified by invoking the right to interfere, the sense of temporal urgency, and the need for immediate action. Humanitarian intervention is seen as a technical means of consolidating national sovereignties by means of the language of global governance, but, paradoxically, it in fact signals the mileposts of the erosion of national sovereignties. Mobile sovereignties have emerged in the wake of humanitarian intervention. These establish the implicit rules of transnationalism that manipulate local elites, institutions and governments engaged in asymmetric negotiations. The aim of this paper is to call attention to new forms of domination established by a series of « supra-colonial » practices.