The Replication of Violence: Thoughts on International by Suman Gupta

By Suman Gupta

A tremendous volume of media house has been dedicated to the catastrophic terrorist assaults in long island and Washington. George Bush was once speedy to claim a 'war on terrorism' which may engulf many nations as well as Afghanistan. yet what does this say approximately Western perceptions of violence -- what does 'war on terrorism' mean?This e-book doesn't try and clarify the momentous occasions of September eleventh 2001. as a substitute it makes an attempt to sharpen our figuring out of what words resembling 'international terrorism' and 'the battle opposed to terror' have come to intend considering that that date. taking up the problems from a philosophical viewpoint, Gupta observes that it has lengthy been tough to outline what constitutes a 'terrorist act'. He explains how the occasions of final yr have jolted even present understandings in unforeseen methods and, importantly, why this hassle of definition persists. analyzing how acts of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures are portrayed within the Western media and the influence this has on public belief, this considerate and provocative account presents a fresh counterpoint to the sensationalised and infrequently over-simplified reporting within the mainstream media.

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This general clarity started getting blurred in the latter part of the Cold War (after the nineteen-sixties) with the conceptualisation of a modern ‘international terrorism’ which, while still being ideologically partisan, started carrying some sense of an ideologically devoid and irresponsible political violence from irrational formations with random targets, directed against humanity and humaneness per se (on an 34 The Replication of Violence indistinguishably international scale). , from ‘foreign sources’, from ‘antisocial elements’).

16 Ariel Merari in ‘Terrorism as a Strategy of Insurgency’ (1993), where he examines ‘terrorism as a mode of struggle rather than a social or political aberration’,17 takes it on himself to explain the difference at some length: As strategies of insurgency […] terrorism and guerrilla are quite distinct. The most important difference is that unlike terrorism, guerrilla tries to establish physical control of a territory. This control is often partial. […] The need to dominate territory is a key element in insurgent guerrilla strategy.

Recent discussions of warfare do not seem to feel that that question needs to be addressed in a headlong fashion: they start with the attitude that this is known already and can be discussed, and end with the conviction that it has been discussed and is therefore known now. But the question does need to be addressed because in fact neither a discussion of procedural considerations nor of relevant ethical issues quite tell us what war is. If we know the answer to that we can always discuss meaningfully the numerous – indeed innumerable – procedural considerations that attach to warfare, and recognise yet others as being relevant, even though we hadn’t thought of them before, on the basis of that answer.

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