The enemy is not definable solely through war

Evidence

As I will argue, the question of the enemy is not reducible to the question of war, even if it is hardly independent from it, something that would be only partly addressed, if at a different level of analysis, by what Vilho Harle describes as “the current interests of peace researchers in culture, language and their relationship to the questions of peace and war.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 821

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the book’s core methodological refusal: enemy cannot collapse into war, even while causally entangled with it.
• XREF: connects to: Assassinating bin Laden did not stop the US war on non-state actors.; Liberal tolerance means treating opponents as legitimate enemies, not neutralizing conflict — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 459