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Critical contribution to the “security-religion” nexus: going beyond the analytical / Eroukhmanoff, Clara

Eroukhmanoff, Clara	Journal Article
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This review essay explores the security–religion nexus by evaluating two books contributing to the “restorative turn” in International Relations (IR) theory and practice. While Securing the Sacred and Religion in the Military Worldwide “bring religion back” into the realm of international politics and security, I argue that the analytical purpose of the books is problematic, given that both studies imply a normative logic to the security–religion nexus. This is difficult for two reasons. First, it rests on an assumption about the resurgence of religion in the world and the conduct of research. Second, it furthers a powerful discourse in which religion has a rightful place in an orderly society. I therefore provide a critical contribution to the security–religion nexus by urging scholars of religion and security to embrace their underlying normative positions.

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Securitization ; Critical ; Security–Religion Nexus ; Normativity

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We're All Terrorists Now: critical-or hypocritical-studies "on" terrorism? / Jones , David Martin; Smith, M L R

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2009.

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This article reviews the new journal Critical Studies on Terrorism. The fashionable approach that this journal adopts towards the contemporary phenomenon of terrorism maintains that a "critical" and "self-reflexive" approach to the study of terrorism reveals a variety of shortcomings in the discipline. These range from a distorting over-identification with the Western democratic state perspective on terrorism to a failure to empathize with the misunderstood, non-Western, "other." This review examines whether the claims of the critical approach adds anything, other than pedantry and obscurity, to our understanding of the phenomenon. It concludes that it does not.

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We're All Terrorists ; Critical ; Hypocritical ; Studies "on" Terrorism ; Studies “on” Terrorism

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