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Zusatztext "The contributors to this conceptually interesting and provocative volume utilize the framework of what they term a political 'moral panic' to examine the lessons and legacies of the United States-led "Global War on Terror.'"- Dr. Joshua Sinai Informationen zum Autor Gershon Shafir is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, and founding Director of the Human Rights Minor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books, including Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, co - authored with Yoav Peled, which won the Middle Eastern Studies Association's Albert Hourani Award for best book on the Middle East in 2002. Everard Meade is Assistant Professor of History and founding member of the advisory board of the Human Rights Minor Program at UCSD. He has published recent articles in the Journal of Historical Biography , Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and InterCulture . William J. Aceves is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at California Western School of Law. He is the author of The Anatomy of Torture and the co-author of The Law of Consular Access and principal author of the influential Amnesty International USA Safe Haven report. Klappentext A decade after 9/11! it is increasingly difficult to deny that terror has prevailed - not as a specific enemy! but as a way of life. This book examines the social! cultural! and political drivers of the war on terror through the framework of a 'political moral panic'. "The contributors to this conceptually interesting and provocative volume utilize the framework of what they term a political 'moral panic' to examine the lessons and legacies of the United States-led "Global War on Terror.'" - Dr. Joshua Sinai Zusammenfassung This volume examines lessons and legacies of the US-led Global War on Terror, using a theoretical framework of political 'moral panics'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Constructing National and Global Insecurity: A Prologue, Alison Brysk, Everard Meade, and Gershon Shafir 2. The War on Terror as Political Moral Panic, Gershon Shafir and Cynthia E. Schairer Part I: Reponses at Ground Zero 3. Constitutional Barriers and the Perils of Impunity, William Aceves 4. The Banality of Deterrence: The Detention and the Denial of Asylum Seekers after 9-11, Everard Meade 5. Religion Out of Place: Islam and Cults as Perceived Threats in the United States, Peter G ottschalk Part II: Globalization of the War on Terror 6. Fighting Phantoms: The United States and Counterterrorism in Eastern Africa, Jeremy Prestholdt 7. Counter-Revolution in U.S. Military Affairs, David Pedersen 8. Conclusion: The Politics of Moral Panics: Norms and National Insecurity, Alison Brysk ...
