The UN and Counter-Terrorism
This book traces the evolution of the UN Security Councils actions against counter-terrorism and extremism.
The work examines the progression of the UN Security Councils fight against international terrorism and its development of practices to prevent radicalisation and extremism. It also looks at the consequences of these processes and how they have deeply moulded global counter-terrorism. The book looks at the discursive construction of a global threat and tracks how this construction evolved in relation to the Councils establishment of legal practices and bodies, and by its Members discourses. It argues that the very specific definition the Council provided on international terrorism in the 2000s is profoundly shaped by global hegemonies, relations of power shaping the international community, and its own identity. To demonstrate this, it offers a long genealogical perspective of the structure of the UN since the 1930s and then focuses specifically on the developments taking place in the 2000s. The book thus looks at the Security Councils fight against international terrorism as a global, globalised, and globalising enterprise.
This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, security studies, global governance, and International Relations.
Alice Martini is Associate Professor in International Security Studies, Comillas Pontifical University, Spain. She is co-convenor of the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (BISA).
Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
This book series will publish rigorous and innovative studies on all aspects of terrorism, counter-terrorism, and state terror. It seeks to advance a new generation of thinking on traditional subjects and investigate topics frequently overlooked in orthodox accounts of terrorism. Books in this series will typically adopt approaches informed by critical-normative theory, post-positivist methodologies, and non-Western perspectives, as well as rigorous and reflective orthodox terrorism studies.
Series Editor: Richard Jackson University of Otago, New Zealand
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The UN and Counter-Terrorism
Global Hegemonies, Power and Identities
Alice Martini
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Critical-Terrorism-Studies/book-series/RCTS
The UN and Counter-Terrorism
Global Hegemonies, Power and Identities
Alice Martini
First published 2021
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This book is based on the research that I conducted for the long, beautiful, and complicated journey that was my PhD. I defended it in July 2019, and since then, many things changed in my life, and the world is currently going through the global covid-19 pandemic. Throughout these last years, I met people that have been incredibly inspiring, and that, nowadays, are among my dearest friends, and many are the names and faces that come to my mind when writing the acknowledgements for this work.
My first thanks go to Francisco Javier Pea, Paco, the one that saw a PhD student in the young me that was meeting IR for the first time. To me, he was more than a great supervisor; he was a friend and an ally, but above all, Paco for me felt like my grandfather in Madrid. The event of his death in 2018 was devastating news for me, something that made me wonder whether this journey was worth continuing. I still miss him, and I miss our chats and the weekly time we used to spend together, sharing our Weltschmerz . I still cannot believe that he is not here anymore, but he will be my maestro forever.
I am also immensely grateful to Richard Jackson. Richard believed in me, encouraged me, and spent a lot of his time working with me debating, helping me with my project, and supporting me in every possible way, academically and personally. He was there for me when Paco died, and I hope he knows how much it means having him there and not being left alone in the jungle that academia is. If I am publishing this book it is, in no small part, thanks to him. Thank you, Richard.
I also need to thank my PhD supervisors. In Italy, Francesco Strazzari, who believed in me and my project since the first moment. In Spain, Itziar Ruiz-Gimnez Arrieta, who adopted me academically, making space for me in her life and helping me in any possible way, being always there for me, supporting me until the end. Itziar, Francesco, thank you for accompanying me through this journey. My PhD also had the kindest, most generous, and most inspiring external examiners: Lee Jarvis and Laura Fernndez de Mosteyrn. This book would not exist without the support they have given me. Lee, Laura: thank you for believing in my work, back then and now, and for supporting me and encouraging me every time I need it, always with the kindest and most gentle words and in the most inspiring ways.
Thank you to the Scuola Universitaria Superiore SantAnna , Pisa, Italy. Nothing of what I have done in the last four years would have been possible if the Scuola hadnt believed in me and my project. Also, this journey would have not been the same without the possibility of sharing it with the amazing people I work with in Italy. Special thanks to Silvia Cittadini and Clara della Valle, for always being there. Then, Luca Raineri, Alessandra Russo, Laura Berlingozzi, Guendalina Simoncini, Silvia DAmato: thank you for being the best companions for the happiest academic adventures. I hope the future holds many more adventures with you.
