...Samer Abboud Security Studies (SS) is a subfield of International Relations (IR) concerned with the ways that conflict and violence contribute to shaping the world. The subfield’s concern with the conditions of war and peace has situated the state as the referent object of security and produced...

... violence religion war conflict religious identity Mark Juergensmeyer is right in arguing that war cannot be blamed on religion, but that neither can religion and war be entirely separated. What he calls “cosmic war” exists, and blends both religion and war to the point where they become hard...