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British torture in the ‘war on terror’ [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of International Relations, 2017
Despite longstanding allegations of UK involvement in prisoner abuse during counterterrorism operations as part of the US-led ‘war on terror’, a consistent narrative emanating from British government officials is that Britain neither uses, condones nor ...
Ruth Blakeley
exaly   +4 more sources

“The Least Worst Place”

open access: yesRSA Journal, 2022
“The least worst place” in the world to hold “unlawful combatants,” in Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld’s words, the military detention camp within the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay stands out as the epitome for the primacy of national security ...
Stefano Luconi
doaj   +1 more source

A War at the End of Empire: The Militarization of America and Matt Gallagher’s Empire City

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2023
This article examines how contemporary U.S. veteran literature helps understand the domestic effects of the 20-year long War on Terror, and its inseparability from violence at home.
Ari Räisänen
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Apocalyptic Propaganda: How the U.S. Government Manufactured Consent on The War on Terror

open access: yesAl-Albab, 2023
War and propaganda have been linked together for a long time because of a natural human inhibition against killing other humans. To get citizens to give their consent to go to war and kill, the leader(s) need to influence them.
Carin Blom, Tomas Lindgren
doaj   +1 more source

Why Did the Taliban Win (Again) in Afghanistan?

open access: yesLSE Public Policy Review, 2022
The paper explores the long-term developments and dynamics in Afghanistan, which enabled the Taliban to capture the state in August 2021. It suggests that the Taliban’s success was enabled by the failure of the international intervention to build ...
Florian Weigand
doaj   +1 more source

A War on Terror

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2005
If you have never read a Paul Rogers’ article or book before, you will probably be wondering who he is and from what angle he is approaching the “war on terror.” Paul Rogers is a professor of peace studies, as well as an international security ...
Ja’far Muhibullah
doaj   +1 more source

The global war on terror, American foreign policy, and its impact on Islam and Muslim societies

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, 2011
The global war on terror that was started after 11/9 tragedy has continued until to date. The global war on terror not only shaped the new political balance in the international world, but also influenced the relationships between the U.S.
Ahmad Fuad Fanani
doaj   +1 more source

Why Decenter the “War on Terror” in Histories of the “War on Terror”?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Middle East Studies, 2022
When I first began my doctoral work on Afghanistan, and up until quite recently, I had never wanted to write about war. I began my PhD only a month before 11 September 2001, but already the field had been so overdetermined by war—by ideas of political Islam, by the political economy of violence—that I resolved to write a thesis about vital unanswered ...
openaire   +1 more source

Is it a war against terrorism or a war for terrorism? [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, 2006
The question of this study has to do with the underlying fantasy behind the Israeli pattern of encounter with Palestinians. In other words, does Israel create that which it claims to fear most, i.e. terrorism? This paper is based on my research in Israel and the United States.
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