The Strategy of Tension: Understanding State Labeling Processes and Double-Binds

摘要: Criminologists can enhance their theoretical grasp of subject through an understanding contemporary political economy because this provides insights into politics, crime and state policy within across nation-states. Understanding how plays out is very much part the “research agenda for global crime” (Hall Scalia 2019). In article, we present a comparative study European statecraft during Cold War today, noting parallels contrasts in construction demonization “enemies west.” We detailed analysis “strategy tension”—by which mean use violent criminal actions by agents to engender climate fear that blames violence on dangerous “public enemy”—was enacted secret services United States Kingdom, alliance with Italian government, between 1946 1980, alongside some more fragmentary evidence way policies are framed around “War Terror,” forming contours tension.”