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The anthropologist Talal Asad questions the assumption that there is an essential difference between war and terrorism. Asad argues that there is a space of violence shared by 'war' and 'peace', by 'ruthless terrorism' and 'just war', and that that space is embraced by the liberal tradition. Read the article for free here.
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The disastrous and politically debased subject of resilience
While the development-security nexus would appear to be becoming only more tightly woven in international relations, semantic shifts in the conceptualisation of both development and security are occurring. Demands for development are increasingly tied not simply to demands for ‘security’ but to a discursively new object of ‘resilience’. Read More
Anti-terrorism and the mutating dynamics of power
Anti-terrorism and the mutating dynamics of power examines how terrorism and traceability have altered the traditional modes of governing people. Read More
