{"id":715,"date":"2025-05-07T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/?p=715"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:57:19","slug":"monograph-the-war-on-terrorism-as-mimetic-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/2025\/05\/monograph-the-war-on-terrorism-as-mimetic-rivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"Monograph: The war on terrorism as mimetic rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Can the concepts of fanaticism and imperialism adequately explain terrorism and the wars against it? What if our understanding of these phenomena needed to be reconsidered in light of Ren\u00e9 Girard&rsquo;s concept of &lsquo;mimicry&rsquo;, whereby people imitate each other, collectively producing an escalation of violence? Drawing on a socio-historical investigation based on archives and interviews, Mathias Delori analyses how, for thirty years, jihadists, politicians, journalists and pseudo-experts in &lsquo;radicalisation&rsquo; have undermined strategic thinking, producing a world in which attacks respond to bombings and bombings respond to attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1488908\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The war on terror as mimetic rivalry<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">by Mathias Delori (Author)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a9 2025 Monographies XXIV, 262 pages.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">History and Political Science:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/series\/explo\">Explosive Politics Collection<\/a>, Volume 5.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the concepts of fanaticism and imperialism adequately explain terrorism and the wars against it? What if our understanding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,41,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-relations","category-publications","category-terrorisme","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maxime-lebrun-1o2071GOVp0-unsplash-scaled-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cecls.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}