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portada Sacred Violence (Rethinking Political Violence)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2014
Language
English
Pages
280
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781137328076
Edition No.
2014

Sacred Violence (Rethinking Political Violence)

David Martin Jones; M.l.r Smith (Author) · Aiaa · Hardcover

Sacred Violence (Rethinking Political Violence) - David Martin Jones; M.L.R Smith

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Synopsis "Sacred Violence (Rethinking Political Violence)"

Sacred Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to achieve a condition of worldly perfection. In particular, the book focuses upon Islamism as a post modern political religion that considers violence both necessary and purificatory. It also examines the western democratic states' response to the threat political religion poses to its secular politics. As Jones and Smith show, the western state response consistently misunderstands and misreads the nature of the appeal of political religion and the leaderless form of resistance it legitimates, which has consequences for its internal and external policy responses.   This book offers a unique insight on terrorism, a perspective that is much needed in contemporary internal relations and policy debates. Given the shift from state-based to non-state-based violence and warfare in the post-Cold War era, it provides a timely rethink of the links between ideology, violence and strategic theory which will be of great benefit to the foreign policy and defence communities as well as IR scholarship more broadly.

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