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„It is not
coincidental that the global decline in human rights and rise in state terror
correspond with the rise of the New Right in the West and the emergent global
hegemony of economic neoliberalism, particulary the rise of the Reagan and
Thatcher governments and their successors in the United States and the United
Kingdom, and the influence this has had on their Third World client states.
Starting in the early 1980s, these governments abandoned a previous emphasis in
international relations on human rights and replaced it with an emphasis on
combating “terrorism”, and it is with the propaganda of “fighting terrorism”
that states who employ terror most frequently justify their actions. The rise
of cultures of terror seems to correlate exactly with the rise and spread of
the New Right, and I believe this is the fundamental causal link explaining the
monumental rise in state terrorism in the last quarter of the twentieth
century. In response to increasing popular resistance resulting from the
rapidly widening gap between the rich and poor all over the world, states have
increasingly resorted to violence and its threat to contain this resistance and
protect the economic and political domination of local and international
elites”.
No: Sluka,
Jeffrey A. (2001) Introduction: State Terror and Anthropology. In: Sluka,
Jeffrey A. (ed) Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 31
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