In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. Morethan ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result ofthis war: in many nations it h…
Addressing the three dominant contemporary attitudes towards sovereignty - Sovereignty Renewed; Sovereignty Rethought; Sovereignty Rejected - After Sovereignty considers the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory.
The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions--but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy wi…
This book addresses two developments in the conceptualization of citizenship that arise from the 'war on terror', namely the reculturalization of membership in a polity and the re-moralization of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in whic…
New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses
As long-time readers and listeners know, Ted Rall has been writing about Central Asia and Afghanistan since 1997, and was one of the first American journalists to note the importance of the region to American interests. This is a comprehensive look at the first phase of the war …
Among the most prominent and least understood of campaigns in which the Chinese state is engaged is its war against terrorism. With links to the international jihad, an indigenous insurgency threatened the government's grip on a massive swath of northwestern China known as Xinji…
This research builds on theories of geopolitics as discourse in examining how popular media are implicated in the production of emerging state forms in the context of the War on Terrorism. The world is increasingly marked by movement, flows, and communication that transcend poli…
This dissertation analyzes how United States elites ideologically framed events of September 11, 2001 (9–11) and the implementation of the first year of the ‘War on Terrorism’ (WOT). In seeking to understand how the strategic use of frames by different categories of U.S. elites …
In 1981, Ronald Reagan vowed to respond to terrorist attacks against Americans with “swift and effective retribution.” In addition, U.S. policy stated that no concessions would be given to terrorists. However, the Reagan Administration had great difficulty in following these pre…
