... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... War on Terror Drama Other Arab Most Americans have probably experienced something like the loss of their First Worldism as a result of the events of September 11 and its aftermath. What kind of loss is this? It is the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses...

...This chapter is an exploration of the defining trends of the action film in post-9/11 cinema. It situates the debate around the shifting parameters of masculinity in the War on Terror decade with a detailed analysis of the Bourne, Rambo, Taken and James Bond franchises. Bush George W Faludi Susan...

... in the ongoing War on Terror, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the threat of nuclear proliferation in North Korea made for significant anchors in this paradigm shift. At the same time, there was also reason to believe that important changes in China’s behavior and makeup could develop significantly along...

... Nicholas Mayer Jane war Williams Linda Hussein Saddam Afghanistan Butler Judith Nichols Bill pain Piotrowska Agnieszka Melley Tim 9/11 War on Terror enhanced interrogation black sites torture report torture debate Elaine Scarry ambivalence Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero...

... Paglen Trevor Homeland Battle of Algiers Roma città aperta identification witness War on Terror mediated witnessing rendition empathy panoptic gaze surveillance Body of Lies Rendition The traditional definition of the witness carries an element of embodied presence. A witness is someone who...

... the effort to reassert American hegemony as part of the ‘War on Terror’. By including Iraq in the ‘Axis of evil’ and suggesting that Iraq might supply WMD from its alleged programmes to terrorists, Bush sought to legitimise a preventive war against Iraq. The war subsequently launched in March 2003...

...This chapter elaborates the book’s argument about morality and ethics by discussing documentaries and fictional dramas about torture and the ‘War on Terror’, including Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure...

... is between the Latin American ‘dirty wars’ and the ‘War on Terror’, in which enforced disappearance has returned on a global scale. Abuelas animation Argentina Blonds The Chile Chronicle of an Escape detention disappearance Eghbal Afarin Gardiner Francesca Imagining Argentina memory Nostalgia...

.... In their mise en scène, Children of Men (2006), District 9 (2009), and Monsters (2010) make links between wealthy states’ present-day treatment of immigrants and historical atrocities of the ‘War on Terror’, Nazi concentration camps, and South African apartheid...

... by building on feminist work concerning masculinity and militarism, and also connects the debates in the eighteenth century with the same debates taking place in the war on terror. effeminacy Gang of Four masculinity men real ones Noonan Peggy terror war on Bush George W Cameron David crime...

... Bugeaud General pacification slavery Stephens James Fitzjames Rojas Cristina War Police Civilisation Civilising offensive War on terror What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace...

... to the point at which the utility of the proportionality requirement needs to be questioned. This chapter takes up this challenge, analysing the requirement in both just war theory and international law. Its understanding and operation in the 21st century “wars on terror” in Afghanistan and Iraq are studied...

...) and The Eagle (2011). He then traces the depiction of the individual Roman soldier in each era. Finally, he examines the broader contemporary context for post-9/11 depictions of antiquity: the growing body of films about the War on Terror, with which films like Centurion...

... War 2003 Hussein Saddam Italian armed forces Italy military doctrine strategic narratives Lebanon legacies Global War on Terror GWOT Somalia Balkans force structure strategic culture Andreatta Beniamino Afghanistan Iraq Baghdad Kabul Monti Mario procurement decisions Berlusconi...

.... The governmentality approach provides a more nuanced way of understanding the UDC’s resistance, in that it elucidates a mutually constitutive aspect of the relationship between the ruling elites and the unemployed. Gafsa Leftist Union of Unemployed Graduates War on Terror Bardo Occupation disarticulation...

... that the War on Terror played in its development. The dominant securitising practices partly but significantly affected the protesters’ ways of protesting socio- economic marginalisation, leading them to intervene in the production of the counter-terrorism discourse. The chapter shows that the Maknassy...

... in the wake of 9/11 and the War on Terror. After addressing criticisms of the allegorical model, this chapter outlines the palpable culture of fear and anxiety present in the United States following 9/11 and investigates how this was distilled both visually and narratively into cinema more broadly during...