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Introduction

Events of the past months have posed the question of the state and its limits in stark and cruel ways. The bombings in London in July demonstrated one more time the non-state character of the adversary facing the West. In contrast to the conflicts of the 20th century, this violence cannot be attributed to some centrally organized conspiratorial mechanism (it is not the KGB anymore) nor is it even a matter of undercover agents for some rogue state: if it were only that simple. Instead the evidence appears to indicate that, given the population shifts associated with decolonization and globalization,...