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Confusion and incoherence in the theory and practice of war currently haunts the Western liberal conscience: Who or what precisely is the enemy? How should war be prosecuted and legally addressed? And what might the answers to these questions entail for our future political and social organization? These are critical questions that arise from the long “War on Terror” prosecuted in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Jones, D.M., Smith, M.L.R. (2014). History Restarted: Jihadist Terror and Liberal Democracy. In: Sacred Violence. Rethinking Political Violence series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328069_2
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