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According to Michel Wieviorka, war no longer obeys the same rules
The French sociologist Michel Wieviorka considers that the definition of war formulated by the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz in the 19th century, who considered it "the extension of politics by different means", is now obsolete. "Resorting to force now goes beyond all political objectives by adopting a supra political aim, notably religious. Thus terrorism has engendered situations that mean that war is no longer an extension of politics, but an ultimate, absolute combat in which each enemy treats the other as if it were ultimate evil. When a state uses force to destroy an enemy, to eliminate it, it creates certain conditions of extreme violence that do have some things in common with the fundamental concept of war. But there is no longer any political content."
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How are the French suburbs doing?
The French sociologist Michel Wieviorka explains in an interview with Alex Rühle that the rioting in France's suburbs a year ago was "the physical expression of the dramatic failure of our integration policy, which has virtually gone unchanged." However, he notes that the youths have not created their own 'official' version of the events "because they didn't experience them as a group. They communicated over mobile phones, came together for brief moments and then split up again. Added to that, these youths have no culture of remembrance. Their lives are not shaped by discourse, they zap from event to event. In the meantime there's been the Star-Academy and the Football World Cup on TV. They haven't had the time to develop a romantic narrative."
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