The French War on Terror

A Relational Approach to (Counter-)Terrorism
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-76521-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security

This book analyses the French war on terror, covering the French contributions to the US-led ‘war on terror’ and the wars in the Sahel Region since 2013.

This book argues that ‘terrorism’ and offensive counter-'terrorism' are not separate phenomena but, rather, need to be analyzed as two segments of one common violent relation. This leads the work to deconstruct the argument made by state officials that the French approaches to counter-'terrorism' have been more humane and more efficient than the Anglo-Saxons'. France has not avoided the mistakes previously committed by the US and Britain. The only originality of France's war on terror is in fact its anachronistic character. Indeed, France embraced this warlike approach to counter-'terrorism' in mid-2010, at a moment when the US and Britain had already recognized the shortcomings of this approach and started to abandon it.

This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, French politics, and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delori, Mathias

Olsson, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Chapter 1: Fighting fire with fire: mimetic investigations of the “war on terror” and its discursive strategies  Chapter 2: How (French) military interventions produced ‘terrorism’: What critical terrorism studies stand to gain from quantitative approaches  Chapter 3: Old wine in new bottles? France's belated embrace of the “War on Terror” and the co-production of violence  Chapter 4: Counter-terrorism in French politics abroad: the misuse of defense secrecy  Chapter 5: The French experience of pre-empting anti-terrorism

Über Autor(innen)

Mathias Delori is CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) researcher at CERI (Center for International Studies) of Sciences Po Paris, France.

Christian Olsson is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, and Director of its Research Centre in International Relations (REPI – Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale).