Formulation of the Claim
The text links terrorism to international policies and to local tyranny, so it does not treat it as an isolated act or the result of a single factor.
Explanation
The text presents terrorism within a broader environment of interwoven factors, referring to international policies and local tyranny together. In this way, terrorism is not understood as an isolated security or religious phenomenon, but as an act nourished by intertwined political and moral disorders. It also suggests that a crisis of meaning enters this picture as part of its explanation, not merely as a distant backdrop.
Its Place in the Book’s Argument
This claim appears in the context of an attempt to explain violence beyond simplification. It is consistent with the book’s argument, which rejects confining terrorism to a single dimension and calls for linking the internal to the external, and power to meaning, in order to understand the phenomenon within its broader web of relations.
Brief Evidence
All state formations that emerged after 1945 were linked, to one degree or another, to military power, to which was added a tightly controlled police apparatus and a ruling party that closely monitored all “citizens’” initiatives. (citoyennes) Can we imagine an international political life in which these anti-democratic formations would be marginalized, in one way or another, rather than enjoying the encouragement of those who give lessons in democracy, until the day comes when these same people find themselves forced to speak of “rogue states”? This question requires establishing an international law that includes the right of peoples to take measures against states that steal, for the benefit of their interests, the monopoly of “legitimate” violence. Let us remember François Mitterrand’s phrase: “The duty of non-interference stands h
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