UID:
almafu_9959233589902883
Format:
1 online resource (378 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-07006-1
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9786612070068
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0-226-52210-5
Content:
In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments forward since 9/11, contending that our failure to acknowledge that this Cold War continues today is precisely what makes it so dangerous. With eloquence and urgency Meyers argues that the mantra of our time-"everything changed on 9/11!"-is false and per
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Note to the Reader --
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Port of Entry --
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1. From Shock to Terror --
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2. From Terror to War --
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3. The Circle of War and Emergency --
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4. The Norm of Complicity and the Regeneration of Emergency through Violence --
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5. The Cold War Is Not Over --
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6. The Distemper of Monocracy --
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Notes --
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Works Cited --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-52208-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226522104
