This paper argues that terrorism is merely one dimension of a wider phenomenon that is transforming the international system and domestic politics too around the world, neomedievalism. This paper argues conversely that the core problems of security in the 21st century world profoundly reflect these changes. In particular, there has been a clear shift in the dominant form of violence and conflict from one characterized by interstate wars to one in which civil wars, cross-border wars and "low intensity" or guerrilla-type wars - including terrorism - increasingly predominate and proliferate.
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