Preventing extremisms, taming dissidence: Islamic radicalism and black extremism in the U.S. making of CVE/
Manuela Trindade Viana
- 2021
This article explores the effects of the recent discursive re-articulation of terrorism into one of violent extremism. It examines the condition for the emergence of the "Countering Violent Extremism" (CVE) strategy as a solution to diagnoses of failure in the war on terror. More specifically, the historicise the architecture of counterterrorism in the U.S., revealing the formation of an inside/outside division between agencies engaged with counterterrorism.
TERRORISM UNITED STATES -- COUNTER TERRORISM ISLAMIC -- RADICALISM