Breaking Bread With Terrorists

Asymmetric warfare is the result of conflict between the powerful and the powerless, reinforcing a cycle of violence, writes Tarak Barkawi on Al-Jazeera.

Tarak Barkawi is Senior Lecturer, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge. He specialises in the study of war, armed forces and society with a focus on conflict between the West and the global South in historical and contemporary perspective. He is author of Globalisation and War, as well as many scholarly articles.