Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, No. 17, 2008. Special Issue: Violence and Conflict

Contents: Slavoj Zizek: The Violence of the Liberal Europe; Donatella della Porta: Eventful Protest, Global Conflicts; Mathias Albert: Conflict in World Society Theory; Garrath Williams: Dangerous Victims: On Some Political Dangers of Vicarious Claims to Victimhood; Guri Waalen Borch and Kirsti Stuvoy: Practices of Self-Legimitation in Armed Groups: Money and Mystique of the FARC in Columbia; Thor Hvidbak: The Contigent Necessity of the State: On the Irrelevance of Radical Critique; Rasmus Ugilt: The Potential Ontology of the Society of Terror; Hauke Brunkhorst: Democratic Solidarity under Pressure of Global Forces: Religion, Capitalism, and Public Power; Manni Crone, Ulrik Pram Gad and Mona Kunwal Sheikh: Review Essay: Dusting for Fingerprints: The Aarhus Approach to Islamism.