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082922
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2008.
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This article deals with the anarchist and the partisan as forerunners of contemporary terrorism. It investigates their different relationship to the state, the anarchist trying to replace it and the partisan trying to conquer it and what that means in terms of resistance, critique, and position on the use of force. The article is both theoretical and historical, trying to place the anarchist and the partisan within their different time epochs and institutional settings. It ends by discussing if and how a third type of political violence, Islamist terrorism, can be interpreted within the analytical framework of legality/illegality and regularity/irregularity worked out in the article, that is, to what extent is current the Islamist terrorist a child of the anarchist and the partisan
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099893
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2010.
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This article explores and criticizes key assumptions of contemporary cosmopolitanism, not least the notion of post-sovereignty, trying to understand how the cosmopolitan power and sovereignty critique may be very compatible with present-day reconfigurations and relegitimizations of state power and sovereignty. Through a critique of how cosmopolitans sketch out a problematic nation state's past and a more factual efficient and morally appropriate post-nation state condition the article claims that cosmopolitanism may come to serve as legitimizing cover for a new sovereigntist language and practice wielded by the same powers who were dominant in the nation state age, namely the Western states. The purpose of the article is to ask whether cosmopolitanism and humanitarianism have become the new sovereigntist language uniting state officials and state-critical scholars?
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089986
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2009.
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This article explores the anti-pirate discourse as a feature of the present war on terror and the more general connection between state and non-state violence. The anti-pirate discourse in ancient and early modern history is explored where piracy was one of the main threats coming from the private use of force. The anti-piracy reference is used in the present anti-terror discourse to open the way for a more militaristic approach to fighting terrorism centered around the concept of "enemy of humanity." Naming the enemy as someone outside the reach of reason and of conventional warfare brands the enemy as fanatically intent on destruction for destruction's sake and a state's intention to fight the "war" dirty as the only route to success.
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