Terror, Terrorism, States and Societies: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective

Rada Ivekovic, philosopher, writer and feminist, was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in 1945. She is currently Programme Director at the College international de philosophie, Paris. She has taught at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Paris=8 (Vincennes a Saint Denis) and, previously, at the University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia. She is the author of Le sexe de la nation (2003); Divided Countries, Separated Citites: The Modern Legacy of Partition (ed. with Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes, 2003); and of Partitions: Reshaping States and Minds (2005), co-edited with S. Bianchini, S. Chaturvedi and R. Samaddar.

Samir Kumar Dar, a member of the Calcutta Research Group, teaches at the Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta.