In this new book The Universal Enemy, anthropologist and attorney Darryl Li seeks to reconceptualize jihad as armed transnational solidarity under conditions of American empire by analyzing an important moment during the Balkan wars and the way that different actors, including Muslim volunteer fighters and the international community at a juncture and critically explores how these actors and the conceptualizations about them are treated and perceived. In this panel the speakers will be discussing the contributions that the book makes to the field of radicalization and violent extremism research, critically assessing the way that these phenomena have been studied.
Speakers:
Darryl Li, University of Chicago
Anna Meier, UW-Madison
Asya Metodieva, Institute of International Relations
Ivan Ejub Kostić, Balkan Centre for the Middle East
Moderated by: Florian Bieber, CSEES
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89252630873?pwd=dUJIY3h6Q2JvWm44UWRFU3ZnamFWUT09