This paper argues that the emergence of stabilisation as a concept out of peace-building, state-building and counter-insurgency theories has carried with it some of the key weaknesses of international intervention, in particular the idea that imposing western liberal systems on non-western...

This study takes off by demonstrating how the ability of the state to define the difference between ordinary crime and terrorism, both historically and conceptually, is rootet in an immanent power reserve, which the sovereign state carries within from its founding. The paper links this power...