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Bond no longer needs to rely on the past glories of the British empire to justify his disregard for local sovereignty and governance, because the omnipresent threat of terrorism serves as justification enough. Highlighting this point is the fact that the man Bond kills at the embassy is a freelance bomb-maker, the kind of ideology-free terrorist par excellence, at least when it comes to villains one can kill without many ethical qualms. Put simply, the all-encompassing need to defeat terrorism, as advanced by the United States and adopted by its allies (including Great Britain), serves to justify any act, whether one is talking about the kidnapping and torture of detainees in real life or the extraterritorial murder of someone in a foreign embassy in Casino Royale.

Charting the use of extraterritoriality in James Bond stories, across media platforms and through time, demonstrates how the character functions as a kind of wish-fulfillment of the dreams of a lost empire.

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Furthermore, by comparing the early examples of this extraterritoriality with more recent ones helps to demonstrate how the justifications for Bond's actions (and thus the actions of the British government) have gradually shifted over the years from a reliance on lingering imperial and colonialist assumptions towards the rhetoric and justifications of the 21st century War on Terror. Of course, the justifications for this extraterritoriality do not really do anything to lessen the obvious ethical violations embodied by extraterritoriality, but they do help to reveal how the justifications for official excess and violence must adapt to fit both political and cultural realities.

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