The UN and counter-terrorism : global hegemonies, power and identities / Alice Martini.

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Martini, Alice, 1987- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
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Biographical/​Historical note
Alice Martini is Associate Professor in International Security Studies, Comillas Pontifical University, Spain. She is co-convenor of the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (BISA).
Summary note
"This book traces the evolution of the UN Security Council's actions against counter-terrorism and extremism. The work examines the progression of the UN Security Council's fight against international terrorism and its development of practices to prevent radicalisation and extremism. It also looks at the consequences of these processes and how they have deeply moulded global counter-terrorism. The book looks at the discursive construction of a global threat and tracks how this construction evolved in relation to the Council's establishment of legal practices and bodies, and by its Members' discourses. It argues that the very specific definition the Council provided on international terrorism in the 2000s is profoundly shaped by global hegemonies, relations of power shaping the international community, and its own identity. To demonstrate this, it offers a long genealogical perspective of the structure of the UN since the 1930s and then focuses specifically on the developments taking place in the 2000s. The book thus looks at the Security Council's fight against international terrorism as a global, globalised, and globalising enterprise. This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, security studies, global governance and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 8, 2021).
Contents
  • Introduction: the Council's fight against international terrorism
  • A constructivist theory of international terrorism
  • The UN and international terrorism. A genealogy
  • The emergence of the dispositif of international terrorism
  • The consolidation of the dispositif: writing the Self and the Other
  • Broadening the dispositif to radicalisation and extremism
  • Where consensus was not reached
  • Conclusion. The long evolution of global counter-terrorism.
ISBN
  • 9781003097693 ((electronic book))
  • 1003097693
  • 9781000344219 ((electronic publication))
  • 1000344215
  • 100034407X
  • 9781000344141 ((electronic book : Mobipocket))
  • 1000344142 ((electronic book : Mobipocket))
  • 9781000344073 ((electronic bk.))
LCCN
2020040433
OCLC
1195818806
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781003097693
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