Greetings from the cybercaliphate: some notes on homeland insecurity.
One of the paradoxical effects of the 7 July bombings in London was to expose the ambivalence in the British government's attempt to wage war on terror by forcefully prosecuting war against those who resort to jihad abroad, actively participating in coalitions of the willing whether in Afghanistan o...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 81; no. 5; pp. 925 - 951 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=18698787&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 18698787 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00205850 INA jtl: International Affairs issn: 00205850 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2005 vid: 81 iid: 5 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 18698787 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2005.00495.x ppf: 925 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 130KB tig: atl: Greetings from the cybercaliphate: some notes on homeland insecurity. aug: au: JONES, DAVID MARTIN SMITH, M. L. R. affil: Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. He is co-author (with David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya and Daniel Bell) of Towards illiberal democracy in Pacific-Asia (1995), author of Political development in Pacific Asia (1997), Conscience and allegiance in seventeenth century England (1999) and The image of China in western social and political thought (2001), and editor of Globalisation and the new terror (2004). Reader in War Studies, King's College London, at the University of London. He is author of Fighting for Ireland? The military strategy of the Irish republican movement (1995 and 1997), Reinventing realism: Australian foreign and defence policy at the millennium (2000), with David Martin Jones, and co-editor (with Andrew Dorman and Matthew Uttley) of The changing face of military power (2001). su: London Terrorist Bombings, London, England, 2005 Bombings Terrorism Counterterrorism Multiculturalism Islamic fundamentalism Radicalism United Kingdom England sug: subj: United Kingdom England London Terrorist Bombings, London, England, 2005 Bombings Terrorism Counterterrorism Multiculturalism Islamic fundamentalism Radicalism ab: One of the paradoxical effects of the 7 July bombings in London was to expose the ambivalence in the British government's attempt to wage war on terror by forcefully prosecuting war against those who resort to jihad abroad, actively participating in coalitions of the willing whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, while affording some of Islamism's key ideologists and strategists a high degree of latitude in the United Kingdom itself. This indicates a number of contradictions in official policy that simultaneously recognizes the globalized threat from violent Islamic militancy while, under the rubric of multiculturalism, tolerating those very strains of Islamist radicalism, some of which draw upon the interdependent and transnational character of conflict, to render the UK vulnerable to those very same violent forces. Consequently, the British authorities displayed a studied indifference towards this developing transnational phenomenon both during the 1990s and in some respects even after the London bombings. To explore the curious character of the government's response to the Islamist threat requires the examination of the emergence of this radical ideological understanding and what it entails as a reaction to modernization and secularism in both thought and practice. The analysis explores how government policies often facilitated the non-negotiable identity politics of those promoting a pure, authentic and regenerated Islamic order both in the UK and abroad. This reflected a profound misunderstanding of the growing source and appeal of radical Islam that can be interpreted as a consequence of the slow-motion collision between modernity in its recent globalized form and an Islamic social character, which renders standard western modernization theory, and indeed, the notion of a ‘social science’ itself, deeply questionable. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: © 2019 The Royal Institute of International Affairs. item: International Affairs holder: Oxford University Press / USA dt: @attributes: year: 2005 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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