ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Members’ political tensions, disagreements, and the internal wars of words about the delimitation of the dispositif. The depiction of international terrorism as an entirely new phenomenon had played a pivotal role in the emergence and consolidation of the Council’s dispositif. The elasticity of the discourse allowed actors to construct and use different “times of terror”. The emphasis on the newness of the fight against international terrorism discursively rendered this violence as radically different from any previous countries’ struggles, reflecting a “radical discontinuity” with the past. The constant rearticulation of previous counter-terrorism activities retrospectively maintained their legitimacy. Several countries claimed a special place within the discourse as special victims of this violence, recalling their previous or present fights. Countries from the Global South highlighted other problems their countries were struggling with like poverty, starvation, underdevelopment, and climate change and asked for the Council’s assistance.
