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The Political QuarterlyVolume 87, Issue 4 p. 611-613 Book Reviews War of terror, war on terror Gianfranco Pasquino, Gianfranco PasquinoSearch for more papers by this author Gianfranco Pasquino, Gianfranco PasquinoSearch for more papers by this author First published: 04 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.01_12308Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume87, Issue4October–December 2016Pages 611-613 RelatedInformation

Lori Clune, Executing the Rosenbergs: Death & Diplomacy in a Cold War World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 261 pp. $29.95.

Lori Clune, <i>Executing the Rosenbergs: Death &amp; Diplomacy in a Cold War World</i>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 261 pp. $29.95.

Past Jihads, Citizenship and Regimes of Memory in Modern Spain

The involvement of Western citizens in jihadist activities bears important epistemological consequences: presented as a clash of civilizations, Islamic terrorism brings to the fore the issue of civil war. This article, after underlining that both terrorism and holy wars have a long pedigree in Western history, traces the interplay of religious and political tropes and semantics in the origin of terrorism, in the West in general and in Spain in particular. Highlighting the overlap of traditional faithful/unfaithful cleavages into modern friend/enemy political dichotomies, it summarizes the history of modern Spain as a sequence of civil wars in which political and meta-political discourses and practices of exclusion evolved towards extermination solutions in the twentieth century. This account allows for a reflection on the crisis of the regime of memory established after Franco’s dictatorship in Spain.

Reckoning Sacrifice in “War on Terror” Literature

Reckoning Sacrifice in “War on Terror” Literature

Between mourning and melancholia: Religion and politics in modern India

AbstractIn reviewing this autobiographical book by Saeed Naqvi, an internationally known Indian journalist, this essay first discusses the relationship amongst journalism, autobiography and anthropology, the discipline this reviewer broadly works in. Arguing for a crossover amongst them, it documents the evolving relationships Naqvi describes between religion and politics in modern India, including the moment of India’s Partition in 1947. It discusses such figures as Azad, Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Rao, Vajpayee and issues such as ethnic/communal violence, the role of the state in genocide, demolition of Babri Masjid, the US-led “Global War On Terror (GWOT)” and more. This essay notes the salience of Naqvi’s thesis that the much-valorized Indian secularism was and is at best a mask for majoritarian religious impulse. However, it critiques Naqvi’s solution as a return to India’s founding fathers and the imagined era of so-called composite culture. Central to this critique is the point that Naqvi’s own personal...

TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL RADICALISM – FROM THE “REVOLUTIONARY CARNIVAL” TO RELIGIOUS TERRORISM

В статье рассматривается современный процесс изменения форм и методов сопротивления сложившейся системе глобального управления. Автор указывает на упадок традиционного антиглобализма леворадикального интернационального толка, выразителем которого был субкоманданте Маркос. На смену традиционному антиглобализму приходит религиозный экстремизм, сторонники радикального исламизма сумели создать квазигосударство «Исламский Халифат» и развернули террористическую войну против цивилизации Запада. Автор выступает против любых форм военного вторжения в регион Ближнего и Среднего Востока, призывает сосредоточиться на укреплении национальных границ государств Европы и Северной Америки.

Dogs of War or Jackals of Terror? Foreign Fighters and Mercenaries in International Law

The threat of “blowback” from foreign fighters, unaffiliated volunteers who join an insurgency in a distant land, has led states to explore a variety of normative mechanisms. Among these is the international legal regime applicable to mercenaries. This short article considers the evolution of mercenarism and the efforts to regulate it. Attempts to fit foreign fighters into that normative category are unlikely to succeed. In part this is due to the question of motivation, which is central to most definitions of mercenary and focuses on private gain. But it is also linked to the reasons for regulation in the first place: mercenaries are seen as threats in the states to which they travel, while foreign fighters are primarily deemed threats by the states to which they might return.

Historical Role of the International Communist Movement during the World Anti-fascist War

The relationship between the international Communist movement and the world anti- fascist war constitutes a major historical theme of our times. As a positive force for democracy and peace, the international Communist movement became a solid political cornerstone of the anti-fascist war. Its enormous sacrifices and contributions made it one of the final forces terminating the fascist political order, and its humanity provided mankind with a just direction in the struggle against war terrorism and for peace idealism. It thus became a major force in effectively advancing the development of democracy and peace. Based on the logic of condemnation, the critical reflections upon fascism made by the Communist movement have provided a value dimension for the building of today’s international security system. Based on the logic of construction, the international peace ethics followed by the international Communist movement offer an ideological foundation for the building of the new international order. And based on the logic of development, the new paradigm of world civilization pursued by the international Communist movement has become a political exemplar for the current pursuit of international peace. The political force of the Communist Party of China (CPC), as China’s political backbone and advance guard, cannot be overlooked: it influenced the anti-fascist war, the postwar international Communist movement and the democratization of world order. Of course, both the Soviet Union and the Comintern also offered many historical lessons during the anti-fascist war, lessons that merit profound reflection and consideration.

Wars of terror

Wars of terror

MAGNA CARTA AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL IMAGINATION: TWO INSTANCES OF HABEAS CORPUS VINDICATED

Magna Carta has long been understood as a source of inspiration for the U.S. Constitution, and especially its enshrinement of the writ of habeas corpus — the right of any prisoner to test his or her detention according to the law. In the “Suspension Clause” of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8), Congress is granted permission to suspend habeas corpus only “when in cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” This article surveys two failed attempts by the U.S. government to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. The first (which was actually the very first such attempt) was in 1807 and followed revelations of the so-called Burr Conspiracy. The second (incidentally the most recent in American history) occurred during the War on Terror and culminated with the Supreme Court’s decision of Boumediene vs Bush in 2008. A close examination of these two historical episodes reveals just how different were the constitutional processes of the early republic and contemporary times. Additionally, comparing the uses of Magna Carta during the two episodes demonstrates marked changes in American political culture. Historical consciousness, vital to early Americans’ understanding of their political system, has shifted to an elite level. Likewise, the protection of fundamental liberties has migrated from the popular branch of government (Congress) to the elite one (the Supreme Court). This article considers the implication of this shift in both constitutional processes and historical consciousness.

Monstrosity, Abjection and Europe in the War on Terror

The following reflection connects texts and contexts relevant to themes of abjection (Kristeva 1980), monstrosity, and the European take on the “War on Terror,” whether the texts are those upholdin...

Nino Filastò, Nella terra di nessuno e le leggi anti-terrorismo: una storia di giustizia tradita

This article analyzes Nino Filasto’s novel entitled Tre giorni nella vita dell’avvocato Scalzi (1989), republished as Nella terra di nessuno (2001) after the homonymous 2000 film version featuring Ben Gazzara as the protagonist. Filasto is a defence lawyer and wrote this novel following his experience working with Italian terrorists held in high security prisons during the so-called Years of Lead. Through a story set in the 1980s in a fictional prison, Filasto denounces the situation in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, when the promulgation of emergency anti-terrorism laws prevented defence lawyers from discharging their professional duties towards their clients. On the one hand, these laws introduced more severe sentences for common crimes performed by terrorists; on the other they granted reduction of a sentence for those who accepted to cooperate with the police enquiries. Therefore, in the novel Filasto shows how these laws first imposed disproportionate punishment; then, by establishing a direct line between judges and the defendant, they provided a way out that nullified the function of the defence. By highlighting the mistreatment of inmates in high security prisons in a story of travesty of justice, Filasto is a precursor of a subsequent successful trend in Italy that sees judges, policemen, and lawyers use crime fiction to eviscerate the mechanisms of the Italian judiciary. His novel is also a powerful reminder of the risks of depriving human beings of their basic rights in order to pursue a fight against terrorism.

Living with Terrorism: Unimaginable Nightmare or Prospective Reality

Abstract Nine days after the transformational 9/11 attacks, President G.W. Bush proclaimed that the nation is fighting a Global War on Terror (GWOT), an attention-grabbing phrase designed as a rallying cry for America to win the battle against al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations threatening our homeland as well as our allies and interests abroad. Eight years later, President Obama inherited what had become an even more dangerous situation, which led to the unexpected and courage attack that felled bin Laden and splintered al Qaeda. However, this success was short-lived when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suddenly emerged as our primary terrorist adversary – a new and brutal threat that President Obama vowed to “degrade and ultimately destroy” by doing what it takes to win the war against this and other terrorist organizations. While there has been some progress in halting and reversing ISIS territorial gains with the US providing support to newly trained Iraqi forces, this terrorist organization is not fully contained and far from being destroyed.

Beyond the “Conflict” Paradigm

Western-Muslim relations have experienced long periods of peaceful coexistence,fruitful co-operation, and close interactions that have enriched both civilizations.And yet an alien observer of our mainstream media could be forgivenfor concluding that “Islam” and the “West” can never co-exist in peace becausethey seem to have nothing in common. In fact, the intermittent violence interruptingthese long peaceful interactions – from the Crusades to the “War onTerror” – has constituted the core of most mainstream media coverage and“scholarship” purporting to “study” and “explain” these relations.In a zero-sum power game, these dominant frameworks emphasize thatsuch a “clash” is inevitable. Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations”theory has become the best known articulation and deployment of “conflict”as an “explanatory” framework for understanding current and past Muslim-West interactions. Simply put, existential, cultural, and religious chasmshave put the Muslim world on a collision course with the western world, aproblem that is most exacerbated by the presence of “Islam” and Muslimcommunities in western societies (Huntington, 1993).1 His thesis appearsto ignore each civilization’s internal diversity and pluralism and to be willfullyoblivious to the inter- and intra-civilizational interactions and centuriesoldco-existence, as Edward Said argued in his rebuttal: “Clash of Ignorance”(2001). &#x0D; Beyond the broadest generalizations, after all, what do “Islam” and the“West” mean? How long can we afford to “ignore” the “porousness” and “ambiguity”of their geographical and cultural borders? Is “conflict” between thesetwo realms inevitable? How about the centuries-old dialogue between thesecivilizations, the “Self” and the “Other”? How can researchers and intellectualsdeploy their inter-disciplinary insights and scholarship to address both thereal and the perceived civilizational “chasms”?These questions constitute the overarching themes of some very importantscholarship published in three recent books: Engaging the Other: Public Policyand Western-Muslim Intersections, edited by Karim H. Karim and MahmoudEid; Re-Imagining the Other: Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections,edited by Mahmoud Eid and Karim H. Karim; and the Routledge Handbookof Islam in the West, edited by Roberto Tottoli. With rich methodologicalapproaches, broad theoretical lenses, and diverse topics, these three books offera unique platform to build both a holistic and nuanced understanding of thecontingencies and intricacies surrounding “Islam” and the “West.” ...

The Role of Political Exclusion and State Capacity in Civil Conflict in South Asia

ABSTRACTExtant literature on intrastate conflict independently explores terrorism and civil war. However, both terrorism and civil war are probably parts of a continuum of intrastate conflict with the former at one end and the latter at the other end in terms of intensity. I argue that two factors play important roles in rebels’ decision-making calculus, namely, the size of their support base and state strength. Terrorism, as a strategy of the weak, is optimal when the rebel groups have little support among their audience and the state is strong. On the other hand, guerrilla warfare is an ideal strategy when such groups have a greater support base and the state is weak. The theoretical argument is tested on a dataset of Myanmar and six countries of South Asia and for 1970–2007.

Американский военный сленг. Влияние войны против терроризма

Американский военный сленг. Влияние войны против терроризма

Book Review: Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World’s Most Wanted Man by Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait, eds

Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man. Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait, eds. Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 259 pp. $95 hbk. $30 pbk.Edited by Susan Jeffords, a professor at the University of Washington, and Fahed Al-Sumait, an assistant professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait, Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man interrogates global media representations of Osama bin Laden-the most-wanted figure in the war against terror. The editors provide two grounds to justify why the book focuses on bin Laden's depictions in the global media: (a) media is instrumental in the war against terror, and (b) global audiences heavily rely on the media for terrorism-related information.Importantly, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach by drawing conversation from various fields-for example, political science, media studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature. This, as the editors point out, encourages readers to consider the complexity of debates surrounding bin Laden's role in terrorism. Three things make the release of the book timely: First, it is published at a time when terrorism is pervasive in human life. Second, the volume comes following the killing of bin Laden-a timely thing to excite readers. Third, bin Laden's name is synonymous with terrorism. This last point is the volume's central strand-bin Laden's representations as seen through the prism of global media.The 259-page book is divided into three parts, in addition to introduction and epilogue. The introduction captures the book's broader theme-the symbiotic relationship between the media and terrorism-putting into sharp focus the role of media in the war against terror. This theme is echoed in the epilogue.Part I has three chapters that focus on defining political actors. Essays in this section underscore the reasoning that there is no knowable narrative about bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and terrorism. Taking this cue, in his chapter, Richard Jackson argues that bin Laden's death is meaningless because since his demise counterterrorism programs haven't been reduced. Supporting this surprising observation, Richard asks hard questions: Does it signal the destruction of Al-Qaeda? Does it mean the War on Terror has been won? Does it represent the administration of justice for the 9/11 victims? Chapter 2 by Aditi Bhatia conceptualizes the global war of terrorism from a rhetorical perspective-a metaphorical contest between bin Laden and George W. Bush. To analyze the rhetorical battles, Bhatia uses binary opposition: good versus bad, civilization versus barbarism, and moral justice versus retribution. Andrew Hill's chapter scrutinizes bin Laden's video and audio appearances after the 9/11 attacks.Chapters 4 through 7 in Part II mirror bin Laden's framing in the global news media. Courtney Radsch's essay explores the symbiotic relationship between bin Laden and Al-Jazeera channel. …

Review of Robin L. Riley, Depicting the veil: Transnational sexism and the war on terror, London: Zed Books 2013, vi + 182 pp. ISBN 978-1-78032-128-8

Review of Robin L. Riley, Depicting the veil: Transnational sexism and the war on terror, London: Zed Books 2013, vi + 182 pp. ISBN 978-1-78032-128-8

Masculinity and the War on Terror

Masculinity and the War on Terror

China’s fight against terrorism at sea

China’s fight against terrorism at sea