【半岛电视台非洲·非洲】Pernicious states: Towards a new grammar of international relations

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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoUnited States President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Gastonia Municipal Airport, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, in Gastonia, NC [Matt Kelley/AP Photo]Injustice extends not only to people and states, but also to words and concepts. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in international relations, where power often prevails over wisdom and prudence. Those who control money, trade, technology and resources also seek to

The vast US machinery of concept production has generated an array of loaded and unjust terms that American power has then helped impose on the world. There is, of course, a vast difference between the ability of powerful states to produce and circulate such concepts and the capacity of weaker states to do the same. In an effort to bring greater justice to this unequal terrain of ideas, this piece proposes a different category: the pernicious state.

Every state, of course, can cause harm. But when a state’s historical structure is itself built around causing harm, perniciousness ceases to be an occasional response to necessity and becomes a sustained way of life. For that reason, the pernicious state is often gargantuan and imperial, with arms extending across the world.

International relations have never been a realm of gentle diplomacy. They have always been chaotic, violent, power-driven and bloody. Human history is marked by invasions, mass casualties and devastating conflicts waged by powers thousands of miles from the theatres of destruction. Yet more insidious than physical violence are the concepts engineered by the powerful to sanitise and legitimise their own conduct while incriminating and smearing the victims of their perniciousness.

A Western-centric political and academic lexicon has produced an array of categories used to classify and stigmatise states, while terms such as “rogue state” have become particularly embedded in United States foreign policy discourse. Ironically, these Western-minted terms are as theoretically flawed as they are politically aggressive.

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