ABSTRACT
Events such as the 2004 Madrid and 2005 London bombings represented internal challenges for the dispositif. Perpetrated by individuals linked to the West, these attacks rendered “the traditional link between poverty and terrorism less relevant” and challenged the understanding that the developed world was not a space or even a source of international terrorism. The Council considered that “The ability acquired by terrorists to conquer and administer territories is one of the most disturbing facts in today’s international reality”. The Council’s renewed impetus depended on many factors such as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant's extreme violence, its strategic positioning in areas rich with natural resources, and the attacks it carried out around the world. Sovereignty is the “primary criterion” to judge power and legitimacy in the international sphere and the Security Council. The category of foreign terrorist fighters discursively rendered these individuals as manifestations of the terrorist monolithic phenomenon.
