Extremist timelines: interrogating the politics of time in twenty-first-century violent anti-liberal movements.
This article seeks to enrich understanding of Amitav Acharya's formulation of the multiplex world order in two novel ways. First, it recentres violent extremist actors as being among the architects of such multiplexity and, second, it highlights their contribution to multiplexity's temporal pluralis...
| Published in: | International Affairs Vol. 102; no. 2; pp. 481 - 503 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2026
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