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Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New publication in the Journal of Strategic Studies (part of a special issue on "Reimagining COIN after Afghanistan): What lies over the Horizon? In this, I question the meaning of "over-the-horizon" counterterrorism, and what kinds of futures it points towards. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What lies over the horizon? Remoteness and the evolution of American global counterterrorism

This article examines the War on Terror’s shift to ‘over-the-horizon counterterrorism’ after the 2021 American withdrawal from Afghanistan. I argue that the concept of the ‘horizon’ provides tempor...

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Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Abstract here 👇 Thank you to @hannahrwest.bsky.social and @alexwaterman.bsky.social for editing this special issue; stay tuned for the full line-up of papers imminently!

This article examines the War on Terror’s shift to ‘over-the-horizon counterterrorism’ after the 2021 American withdrawal from Afghanistan. I argue that the concept of the ‘horizon’ provides temporal and spatial structures which both obscure and reveal the political dimensions of counterterrorism. Drawing on German historian Reinhart Koselleck’s concept of the ‘horizon of expectation’, I demonstrate how the horizon shows the tensions between present uses of force and future security endeavours through a discourse analysis of speeches and communications on counterterrorism by the Biden Administration, inescapably inscribing counterterror violence at the heart of American security futures.

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