Date: 2008

Global justice and today international terrorism are both historical phenomena without precedent. To think theirs interrelations together with the role ascribed to the State is the task of the project. Political philosophy is the privileged field to such an approach: (1) combining the actual debate on global justice together with its different points of view (juridical, economical and ecological), in order to see in what extent the claims of global justice are intertwined with terrorists claims; (2) developing an analysis of the changes brought about at the level of state sovereignty, understood as the last juridical resort and as the monopoly of violence, together with a reflexion on trans-national security measures and their legitimacy at intra-state level;(3) retrieving sacrificial violence theories as a negative way of communication with the concept of totality and time transcendence and social differentiation - from ideological terrorism with no territorial claims to eco-terrorism.