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Published: 30 June 2023
... Canada’s reputation and national security from racialised threats in the global ‘war on terror’. Shows how elites were able to legitimise explicitly non-peacekeeping activities in Afghanistan by aligning these activities with symbolism of the peacekeeping myth. Afghanistan Canadian Armed Forces race...
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Published: 06 December 2023
... Latin America Malmvig Helle MENA precarious right to work Christianity subject position Widder Nathan Bulley Dan Death Carl care of the self global North Hülsse Rainer socio economic justice Spencer Alexander War on Terror Copenhagen School Jackson Richard Best Jacqueline anti...
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Published: 06 December 2023
... Bouzid capitalism Joudi Moez Azzabi Selim Odysseos Louiza dignity liberal police political rights entrepreneurship homo oeconomicus Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights Mubarki Bouali phosphate Tunisian General Labour Union securitised subject War on Terror Tunisia War...
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Published online: 19 September 2024
Published in print: 06 December 2023
...This book reassesses Tunisian democratization by focusing on two interrelated facets: the continuity of the unemployed struggle over social justice and the management of unemployed protests in the name of the ‘War on Terror’ within a democratic framework. It does so by asking what type of political...
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‘Turning Sheep into Tigers’: State Securitisation of Islam, Societal Insecurity and Conflict in Xinjiang, China
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Joanne Smith Finley
Published: 01 November 2021
.... While the Chinese government has routinely represented this group as a ‘terrorist’ and ‘extremist’ threat since the onset of the US-led ‘Global War on Terror’ (GWoT) in 2001, in reality it perceives the Uyghurs as a dissident, anti-colonial force which it seeks to suppress by means of state violence...
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Boots on the Ground: The New Millennial Combat Film as Cultural Artefact
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Terence McSweeney
Published: 01 December 2014
... Battle for Haditha 2007 Redacted 2008 De Palma Brian O’Reilly Bill Casualties of War 1989 Hollywood American cinema 9/11 Film Media Iraq War War on Terror War film Soldier Drama Lurking beneath the surface of every society, including ours, is the passionate yearning for a nationalist cause...
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The Rise and Fall of Empires: The ‘War on Terror’ as Allegorical Moment in Historical Film
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Terence McSweeney
Published: 01 December 2014
... War Wayne John Greengrass Paul Stone Oliver United 93 2006 World Trade Center 2006 Hollywood American cinema 9/11 Film Media Iraq War War on Terror Historical film Historical drama Rome History is a representation of the past, not the past itself. Robert Rosenstone, Visions ...
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Introduction: Welcome to the Grey
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Caron E. Gentry
Published: 27 March 2020
...’ terrorist and the ‘goodie’ counter-terrorist. All three sub-disciplines lead us to some understanding of the binaries within the War on Terror. Yet, each of them contributes something different; helping us to recognise the intersection of gender, race, and heteronormativity, thereby moving beyond dichotomy...
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Refracting Fundamentalism in Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
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Ana Cristina Mendes and Karen Bennett
Published: 01 June 2017
... of adapting the complicated and morally ambiguous source on which it is based for the demands of the mainstream market. Mendes and Bennett concede that The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a rare example of an American film which breaks free of the America-centric view of the 'War on Terror' and in doing so...
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Published: 01 June 2017
...Chapter Ten, a strikingly original piece by Stephen Joyce which questions the very nature of the influence of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on the American film industry. In "Foreshadows of the Fall: Questioning 9/11’s Impact on American Attitudes" he argues that it is possible to conclude...
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Published: 19 January 2021
...This chapter concentrates on the legal and political issues that arose during the so-called ‘war on terror’ in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Issues that were addressed, very directly, in a series of ‘verbatim’ plays written and produced in that moment. Amongst the most renowned...
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Published: 18 November 2009
..., including John Glover Roberts Jr., Harriet Miers, and Samuel A. Alito Jr. It also discusses the most significant cases heard by the Court during Bush's presidency, including those tied to issues of national security and the war on terror. Blackmun Justice Harry Bush President George W conservatives...
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Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms
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Andrew Wroe (ed.) and Jon Herbert (ed.)
Published online: 20 September 2012
Published in print: 18 November 2009
... to Bush's foreign policy, including ‘The War on Terror’, but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings...
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Introduction
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John W. Lango
Published: 28 February 2014
... principles global war on terror responsibility to protect revising just war principles targeted military operations UN Charter We the peoples of the United Nations determined … to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save...
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Conclusion
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Tony Shaw
Published: 19 September 2007
... contribution to the War on Terror came along before the rubble at New York's Ground Zero had been cleared. The Spirit of America was a fitting tribute to Hollywood's intimate relationship with the American nation throughout the twentieth century. atomic weapons energy Central Intelligence...
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Published: 27 March 2020
... of extraordinary rendition during the War on Terror. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , Alec Leamas is disgraced, abandoned, imprisoned, exiled, and finally betrayed, an abjected figure akin to Agamben’s homo sacer , a figure as excluded as any outlaw. In Tinker Tailor ...
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Published: 31 May 2024
...This chapter analyses four key novels of the war on terror: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018), Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs (2016), Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017), and Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies (2020). It considers the way the discourses of terror...
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Conclusion
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Nick Vaughan-Williams
Published: 12 May 2009
... illustrate how a politics of affect is employed in the ongoing ‘War on Terror’. Bush George W Georgia Russia Saakashvili Mikhail Sarkozy Nicolas South Ossetia territory border of the state concepts of Medvedev Dimitry modern geopolitical imaginary border studies bordering practices borders...
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Published: 18 November 2009
... and Iraq, at great human, financial and geopolitical cost. Tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars were expended as part of his war on terror. Bush is also pilloried for economic failures, none more so than the global financial crisis. The economic crisis of Bush's last year...
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American Leadership Into the New Century
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John Dumbrell
Published: 07 October 2008
..., the effects of 9/11, the War on Terror, the Iraq War and domestic legislation for mapping out the political contours of the early century. The central argument revolves around the reassertion of presidential authority in the early century, which harkened back to the Cold War even as it responded to new...