"As I speak, the highly organised external attack-planning structures within Daesh [the preferred government name for Islamic State], even as they face military threat, are plotting ways to project violence against the UK and our allies without ever having to leave Syria".
So, particularly in states with an imperialist role, military spending can become complexly bound up not only with state-building strategies and agendas for regional economic growth, but also with domestic hegemonic strategies in which the legitimacy of governments hinges upon their ability to project violence.
In my view it's because when organizations like that exploit a failed, or failing state, to create their own quasi-state or terror state — in their own words, a caliphate — in which they can plan and project violence, where they can control their own taxation revenues, their own oil revenues, that's when it can pose a very credible threat to international security.
Is the violence the patients speak of projected internal violence?
PERPIGNAN, France — Walter Astrada doesn't view his four-chapter project, Violence Against Women, as a story about a serious problem for women.
It's a sad but constant reality: for those who decide to resist a given transnational mega-project, violence often follows.
American commanders confess they have no answers in Anbar, and say their strategy is to curb the militants' ability to project their violence farther afield, especially in Baghdad.
Globalization and the Internet made these threats more acute, as technology erased borders and empowered individuals to project great violence, as well as great good.
Bridle's work, which the Museum of Modern Art will present for the first time in its Design and Violence project this winter, generally deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one.
This study is part of a project on violence and traumatic episodes, mental health and barriers to care, The Rwandan Violence, Mental Health and Barriers to Care project (RwVMHBC project).
