Culture, Crisis and America's War on TerrorSince the infamous events of 9/11, the fear of terrorism and the determination to strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. The 'war on terror' discourse has developed not only through American politics but via other channels including the media, the church, music, novels, films and television, and therefore permeates many aspects of American life. Stuart Croft suggests that the process of this production of knowledge has created a very particular form of common sense which shapes relationships, jokes and even forms of tattoos. Understanding how a social process of crisis can be mapped out and how that process creates assumptions allows policy-making in America's war on terror to be examined from new perspectives. Using IR approaches together with insights from cultural studies, this book develops a dynamic model of crisis which seeks to understand the war on terror as a cultural phenomenon. |
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Deconstructing the second American 911 | 37 |
The decisive intervention | 84 |
The institutionalisation and stabilisation of | 122 |
Acts of resistance to the war to terror | 165 |
The discourse strikes back | 214 |
Conclusion | 265 |
Select bibliography | 287 |
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Halaman 112 - States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.
Halaman 4 - If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Halaman 141 - The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction - and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack. To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively.
Halaman 187 - Americans against immigrants, and citizens against noncitizens; to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty; my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends.
Halaman 146 - It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.
Halaman 143 - The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. It has given shelter and support to terrorism, and practices terror against its own people.
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Halaman 111 - In four short months, our nation has comforted the victims, begun to rebuild New York and the Pentagon, rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested, and rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps, saved a people from starvation, and freed a country from brutal oppression.
Informasi bibliografi
| Judul | Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror |
| Pengarang | Stuart Croft |
| Penerbit | Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 113945918X, 9781139459181 |
| Ekspor Kutipan | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |