Delegated Violence: Jihadist Organizations and the Strategic Logic of Small Wars

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Jihadist organizations increasingly delegate violence to non-state actors, altering the dynamics of modern warfare. This evolving strategy allows major powers to engage in geopolitical competition through third-party intermediaries, raising questions about the implications for global security.

Contemporary warfare increasingly operates through the delegation of violence to non-state proxies, transforming insurgent networks into functional extensions of state strategy. In this configuration, “small wars” function as technologies of indirect confrontation through which major powers manage geopolitical competition via expendable intermediaries. From a Foucauldian biopolitical perspective, this dynamic reflects a shift in state rationality: governance no longer centers solely on … Read more The post Delegated Violence: Jihadist Organizations and the Strategic Logic of Small Wars appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.