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Militant islamisme bygger på to grunnleggende ideer: muslimske forestillinger om hellig krig og den moderne politiske voldsdoktrinen, nasjonalistisk militarisme. Det ideologiske kunststykket har vært å forene den statlige krigsretorikken med religiøs retorikk til et tilsynelatende logisk hele.

Sovereignty, boundaries and violence : constructing the Basque national self (1959-2011) / Daniele Conversi -- Changes in the Basque sovereignty demand / Iban Galletebeitia and Pedro Ibarra Güell -- Sovereignty and contention : the evolution of Basque nationalism in Spain / Mario Zubiaga -- The contested transnational mirror of the Basque country : playing homeland politics with the diaspora / Pedro J. Oiarzabal -- Multiple sovereignties? : civil society and territorial construction in Iparralde / Xavier Itçaina -- Sovereignty, capacity and democracy : the Basque case / Jule Goikoetxea -- Basque sovereignty revisited / Pedro Ibarra Güell, Iban Galletebeitia, Mario Zubiaga, Jule Goikotxea, Igor Ahedo, Javier Alcalde and Pablo Aguiar.

The pledge to build a "great", "beautiful" southern border wall was a cornerstone of Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign. This paper analyzes Trump's border wall project as an example of performative statecraft, suggesting that the wall works better rhetorically, than as a barrier against unauthorized cross-border movement. Identifying Trump's performative statecraft as "entrepreneurial", we argue that his border wall discourse differs from that of earlier presidents in the way Trump meshes the performance of the border wall as a protective device with his own performance as an entrepreneur and developer. Trump's border wall discourse accentuates his personal skills as an entrepreneur, and makes these skills relevant to his key campaign promises: to "Make America Great Again", and defend the nation against transnational crime. Despite Trump's radical reformulation of US asylum policy, enhanced pursuit of unauthorized immigrants, termination of Obama-era programs like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and disturbing but short-lived family separation and 'Zero-Tolerance' detention scheme, the border security policies of President Trump are not as novel as his promotional campaigns would have us believe. In fact, Trump's border control strategies have continued many of the measures introduced by earlier presidents. The novelty of the Trump presidency lies in the strong focus on the new US–Mexico border wall, and fervent attention to the physical attributes and instrumental functions of the wall. Much more than a fence, Trump's proposed border wall is a grand, awe-inspiring monument to national security, and to Trump's entrepreneurial statecraft. It also works as a visual aide for Trump's plan to "Make America Great Again". Border walls stand as testimony to the power of the state, and the determination of those who defend it. Trump's border wall would be no exception.

This book offers insights into the issues around food security, public health, equity and global governance. With a focus on India, it highlights the complex networks of socio-political, economic and agricultural challenges to ensure self-sufficiency in food production.

xisting research on digital technologies in peacebuilding exhibits both tech-solutionist and tech-problematizing traits that tend to understate their embeddedness in society and politics. We argue that the study of digital peacebuilding should instead reflexively engage with the coproduction of the technical and the social in both academia and practice. This requires asking how assumptions about technology are related to assumptions about the conflict and peacebuilding context on which these technologies are brought to bear, and with what consequences. Therefore, we propose a methodological framework that brings to the fore how technologies for peacebuilding and peacebuilding with technology are coproduced. First, we focus on the interrelated claims about peacebuilding and technology, and the coproduction of peacebuilding problems and technological solutions. Second, we inquire into the characteristics of the digital peacebuilding agendas built on these claims, including the dynamics of disruptive change and datafication that these agendas bring. Third, we consider the sticky effects of digital approaches, in terms of a politicization or depoliticization of peacebuilding efforts, and ask what kind of peace this may produce.