The war against vague threats: The redefinitions of imminent threat and anticipatory use of force

Badalič, Vasja

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“…At the domestic political level in America, September 11 influenced the nature of law enforcement as well as the creation of new institutions such as the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. On the international front, September 11 shaped the antiterrorism strategy of the United States and the Global War on Terrorism (Badalič, 2021). Given these contexts and with specific reference to Africa, 9/11 forced a reassessment of the presence of Islamic extremist groups and their imminent threat implications for the United States.…”

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AFRICOM and the Burdens of Securitisation in Africa

Nyiayaana

2022

ESJ

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This article aims at analyzing the nature and role of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) in the governance security in Africa. It depended on secondary data, which were obtained from journals, newspapers, books, and annual reports on the activities of the Command. A combination of thematic, content and historical methods of data analysis was used to interpret and explain the nature, role, and challenges of AFRICOM in the governance of security in Africa. Guided by the theory of securitization, the results indicate that the nature of AFRICOM’s security governance reflects continuity and change in the United States' militarism in Africa and the evolving character of the securitization order in the continent since the events of 9/11. The analysis shows that the securitization role of AFRICOM involves competitive militarisation strategically designed to contain the rising economic and political influence of China on the continent. Yet, its counterterrorism operations fall short of addressing the structural sources of Africa’s security predicaments. In these contexts, AFRICOM’s activities have had little or any significant impact on the protection of life and property in Africa. In fact, by articulating and reproducing Africa as security deficient and security dependent on the West, the concept and activities of AFRICOM broadly constitute a phase in the genealogies of coloniality of Western militarism and securitization in the continent.

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confidence: 99%

AFRICOM and the Burdens of Securitisation in Africa

Nyiayaana

2022

ESJ

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“…Management planning should include, for example, three large global earthquakes that are likely to happen simultaneously in 2021, as reported by the authors [15]. After that, there are ongoing climate changes [16], economic threats on human neurocognitive processes [17], other economic threats [18], epidemics [19], wars connected to the post-9/11 era [20] and other threats that could be revealed by the data [21].…”

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Sustainable Determinants That Affect Tourist Arrival Forecasting

2021

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This study considers diversification effects and significant influences on tourist arrivals as a vital export direction. Different quantitative methods, namely a cointegrated-autoregressive model, panels, sentiment and sensitivity analysis, were used in this study. The time-series data for Croatia and Slovenia were isolated from several secondary sources. The variables examined in this approach are tourist arrivals, precipitations, sunny days, earthquakes, microbes and CO2 emissions. The study results showed that there is a severe negative effect on tourist arrivals defined by viruses. Moreover, there is a significant decisive effect of weather conditions on tourist arrivals. Nevertheless, it is necessary to move past Covid-19 pandemic discussions to yield more accurate tourism supply forecasts, while demand is already somehow low since the beginning of 2020. The primary significance is to develop a broader thinking about the impacts of CO2 emissions on the tourism escorted to official tourist websites.

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“…8 Terrorism is something against which 'we' must remain vigilant, yet attack is simultaneously 'imminent' and inevitable. 9 These contradictory temporal frames generate a representational morass that is conceptually problematic, allowing the lines between war and peace to be manipulated, disabling political resistance, and deemphasizing nonviolent conflict resolution. In short, it creates an ever-present set of temporal registers those with power can draw from to justify their preferred policies, even when those policies are inconsistent, ineffective, and contradictory.…”

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A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism

McIntosh

2022

International Relations

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For nearly two decades, the United States has chosen to narrate its response to terrorism through what Judith Butler refers to as the ‘frame of war’. Despite this, victory in that country’s longest war remains largely unimaginable. In some ways this is a problem of time – it is not that victory or an end to the conflict is literally unimaginable, it’s that from our political present, an end appears radically discontinuous. This article builds on recent work using temporality and the political present as a lens and conceptual framework to better understand how temporal assumptions and frames shape the practice of war and political violence. In this article, I show how time and timing play a significant role in justifying the violence of the war on terrorism and in making it intelligible as war. I examine the past three administrations and focus on three areas – the borders of wartime, temporal continuity, and the vision of a post-war future – to show important differences in administrative approaches. To more concretely understand the practice of political violence going forward, attention to the temporal dynamics of politics must be front and center, particularly one possessing ambivalent frames. Doing so reveals the implications these dynamics have for the conduct and permissibility of violence.

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The war against vague threats: The redefinitions of imminent threat and anticipatory use of force

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

AFRICOM and the Burdens of Securitisation in Africa

AFRICOM and the Burdens of Securitisation in Africa

Sustainable Determinants That Affect Tourist Arrival Forecasting

A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism

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