Abstract

TORRES DEL RIO, César. The "Crusades" of Capital (or How the War Changed its Name). Mem. Soc. [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.34, pp.111-129. ISSN 0122-5197.

The present paper offers a view on the collective war carried out currently by world powers. It states that it is a civil war, apart from being worldwide, permanent, sheltered under a state of exception and under International Law, and practiced as "humanitarian intervention" or "peace-keeping missions". The leaders of such war present it as a "crusade" of Good against Evil (rogue States, narco-traffic, terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism), a "just war" for the wellbeing of markets, democracy, security and freedom.

Keywords : Semi colonial countries; preventive war; Terrorism; Liberal Cosmopolitism; Cosmopolitan humanitarianism; post-nationals o-vereignty; co-socialism; imperialism; Social conflict; social science research; international relations.

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