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Fighting Terrorism and Fighting Displacement: Two Approaches to
"Elastic" Sovereignty?
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Hikaru Yamashita
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Research Associate, the National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan
The end of the Cold War period has drawn a new set of issues to our attention, and there
have been corresponding efforts to identify how they can be best tackled.
Of these,
humanitarian emergencies and terrorism would no doubt come near the top of the list to
many minds.
Both have existed before, but the fundamental difference today is the
intensity of attention they have garnered and the corresponding scale of involvement on
the part of the international community.
The purpose of this article is to study some of the recent discourses on
counterterrorism and the humanitarian issue of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in
order to consider how humanitarian intervention and counterterrorism might influence