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Book SynopsisWhat connects political violence in Classical Athens and state terrorism in the Roman republic to the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka and the modern destruction of monuments? Using 9/11 as a lens through which to examine past instances of terrorism, this book presents a wide global view of the use of terror and its impact throughout history. Contributors are: Jaime A. González-Ocaña, Aaron L. Beek, Francesco Mori, Gaius Stern, Timothy Smith, João Nisa, Ölbei Tamás, James Crossland, Paul J. Cook, Chris Millington, Vineeth Mathoor, Dmitry Shlapentokh, Kalinga Tudor Silva, Cserkits Michael, Katty Cristina Lima Sá, Tatiana Konrad, Daniel Leach, Paul J. Cook, Mark Briskey, Silke Zoller, Elizabeth L. Miller, and William V. Hudon.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Legacy of 9/11 as a Window to Examine Terrorism through the Ages  Graham Wrightson PART 1: 9/11 as a Window to Greece and Rome 1 Eternal Enmity between East and West: The Mechanics of Retribution in Herodotus’ Historical Causation and the 21st-Century War on Terror  Jaime A. González-Ocaña 2 A Rhetoric of Terrorism; A Rhetoric of Piracy: Comparing Roman and Post-9/11 Designations of Terrorist  Aaron L. Beek PART 2: Pre-modern Conceptualization and Examples of Terrorism 3 Tyrants and Terror: Violence and Fear in the Literary Accounts of the Athenian Civil Wars  Francesco Mori 4 Mucius Scaevola: An Ancient Roman Terrorist  Gaius Stern 5 State Terrorism in the Late Roman Republic  Timothy Smith 6 The Manifold Impact of Chevauchées as Policies of Terror (c.1350–1400)  João Nisa and Ölbei Tamás PART 3: Case-Studies of Modern Terrorism Section 1: 1850–1945 7 The Original “Spectacular”? The Intentions and Impacts of the 1858 Orsini Bombing  James Crossland 8 Before There Was September 11th, 2001: The Military Response to Non-State Actors  Paul J. Cook 9 Mad or Bad? Paul Gorguloff, the Man Who Killed the French President in 1932  Chris Millington Section 2: 1945–2021 10 Who Owns Terrorism in Democracy? State Terrorism and Violence in India, 1966–1984  Vineeth Mathoor 11 ”Jihadization” of Islamic Resistance: The Pattern of Great Revolutions from Nationalist Movements to Radicalism - A Case Study of Chechnya and Its Implications for Terrorist Activity  Dmitry Shlapentokh 12 ISIS Propaganda and Local Triggers as Drivers of Islamic Radicalisation: A Sociological Analysis of Easter Sunday Attacks in Sri Lanka  Kalinga Tudor Silva PART 4: Islamic Ideals after 9/11 ???? ??? 13 ?- In the Name of God? An Empirical Research about Figurations of the Islamic State in Selected Youtube©-Videos  Michael Cserkits 14 Guides for the “Fight in the Cause of Allah”: The Inspire and Dabiq Magazines and Their Roles in the Disclosure of Jihad  Katty Cristina Lima Sá PART 5: The Aesthetics of Terror Acts and Acts against Memory 15 The Body at War: Reimagining the Irish Troubles through the Post-9/11 Aesthetics of Torture in Steve McQueen’s Hunger  Tatiana Konrad 16 “Bringing a Pitiful Giant to His Knees”: Blowing up Monuments as Subversive Political Violence, 1840–1970  Daniel Leach PART 6: The Rhetorics and Policies of Terror 17 War of the Words: Shultz, Weinberger, and the Rhetoric of Retaliation against Cold War Era Terrorism  Paul Cook 18 How to Understand an Enigmatic Ally: The Pakistan Army, Strategic Culture, and Its Conflicted Relationship with Terrorism  Mark Briskey 19 Terrorist Extradition through the Ages  Silke Zoller 20 The Rhetorics of Terror: Osama Bin Laden, George W. Bush, and Rethinking the 9/11 Attacks  Elizabeth L. Miller and William V. Hudon Conclusion: 9/11 and the History of Terrorism as a Window into the Future and the Past  Graham Wrightson Index

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Book SynopsisThis book responds to the Bush Administration position on the “war on terror.” It examines preemption within the context of “just war”; justification for the United States-led invasion of Iraq, with some authors charging that its tactics serve to increase terror; global terrorism; and concepts such as reconciliation, Islamic identity, nationalism, and intervention.Trade Review”the collection has much to offer. In addition, Presbey’s own contribution (one of the longer essays in the collection) provides a very useful overview--almost a timeline--of the policy decisions and justifications made during and after the buildup to the war in Iraq, the presumed “heart” of the “war on terrorism.” … [the book] takes up the task of restoring philosophical reflection as an integral part of public discourse traditionally valued by democratic societies. The essays in this book demonstrate that professional philosophy need not be merely an academic pursuit written for a specialized audience but can demonstrate and model the skills needed for responsible and engaged citizenship. This book helps restore the social and political role of philosophers. The essays here not only model how to ask the right questions, uncover unnoticed assumptions, and expose the contradictions between stated values and actual practices, but also point to alternative understandings of democracy, human rights, and intercultural dialogue. If the themes and ideas articulated in this book can help to shape a public (and not a merely academic) reflection on these issues, this book will accomplish more than being simply a welcome addition to philosophy of peace studies.” in: H-Net Reviews, March, 2009Table of ContentsForeword: G. Simon HARAK, S.J. Preface: Gail M. PRESBEY Introduction: Gail M. PRESBEY Part One: Terrorism Analyzed William C. GAY: The New Reign of Terror: The Politics of Defining Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Jennifer L. EAGAN: Enforced Homogeneity or Mutual Difference? Luce Irigaray, the War on Terrorism, and International Peace Dianna TAYLOR: Responsibility and/in Crisis Part Two: Democracy as a Remedy for Terrorism Mar PETER-RAOUL: Jihad or the Beloved Community? Benjamin R. Barber on Terrorism and Global Democracy Richard PETERSON: Violence, Power, and Identity: What Are the Conditions of Terrorism? Peter AMATO: Crisis, Terror, and Tyranny: On the Anti-Democratic Logic of Empire Part Three: The United States’ “War on Terrorism” William C. GAY: Bush’s National Security Strategy: A Critique of United States’ Neo-Imperialis Harry van der LINDEN: Would the United States Doctrine of Preventive War Be Justified as a United Nations Doctrine? Gail M. PRESBEY: Is the United States-led Occupation of Iraq Part of the “War on Terror”? D. R. KOUKAL: The Mortal God to which We Owe Our Peace and Defense Edward J. GRIPPE: Consequentialism, Negative Responsibility, and Sacrifice: Moral Dilemmas Posed by the Post-September 11th “Shootdown” Policy Laura DUHAN KAPLAN: Jessica Lynch: Multiple Images, Multiple Realities Part Four: Terrorism Case Studies Oidinposha IMAMKHODJAEVA: Russia, Chechnya, and the Global War against Terrorism Joseph C. KUNKEL: Ethics of Terrorism and the Case of Colombia Rob GILDERT: Terrorism and Deterrent Violence: A Critique of Israel’s Justification of Military Violence Oidinposha IMAMKHODJAEVA: The Role of Central Asia in the “War against Terrorism” Harry ANASTASIOU and Robert GOULD: Securing Human Rights through War and Peace: From Paradox to Opportunity Part Five: The Ethics of War Richard PETERSON: Dilemmas of Intervention: Human Rights and Neo-Colonialism John David GEIB: War and Peace in Christian Tradition: Why I Am an Engaged Christian Pacifist Wendy C. HAMBLET: Emmanuel Levinas: From “Innocent Violences” to the Ethical “Just War” About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany’s recent past and the many ways it is remembered. The cultural memory of the RAF past is a useful device to disentangle the complex relationship between terror and the arts. This bond has become a particularly pressing matter in an era of a new, so-called global terrorism when the culture industry is obviously fascinated with terror. Fourteen scholars of visual cultures and contemporary literature offer in-depth investigations into the artistic process of engaging with West Germany’s era of political violence in the 1970s. The assessments are framed by two essays from historians: one looks back at the previously ignored anti-Semitic context of 1970s terrorism, the other offers a thought-provoking epilogue on the extension of the so-called Stammheim syndrome to the debate on the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. The contributions on cultural memory argue that any future memory of German left-wing terrorism will need to acknowledge the inseparable bond between terror and the artistic response it produces.Trade Review"[…] a very fine collection of thoughtful essays. It raises important issues as it examines the shadow of terrorism in the visual arts, literature, and film. […] insightful volume on cultural memory and the RAF." – in: The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture (30 November 2009), pp. 261-4 "This book laudably brings to an Anglophone audience little-known and pertinent material on the international hot issues of how to understand terrorists […]." – in: Forum for Modern Language Studies 46 (2010), 1 "[…] the volume works well as an extensive, up-to-date overview of the RAF’s cultural posterity and criticism on it, and in suggesting how to read them. As such, this publication will be very welcome to students, researchers, and other readers." – in: Modern Language Review 105 (2010), 2Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Gerrit-Jan BERENDSE and Ingo CORNILS: Introduction: The Long Shadow of Terrorism Prologue Gerd KOENEN: Armed Innocence, or ‘Hitler’s Children’ Revisited Depicting Dead Terrorists Eric KLIGERMAN: Transgenerational Hauntings: Screening the Holocaust in Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 Paintings Carrie COLLENBERG: Dead Holger Sarah COLVIN: Ulrike Marie Meinhof as Woman and Terrorist: Cultural Discourses of Violence and Virtue Literary Representations Sabine von DIRKE: The RAF as Trauma and Pop Icon in Literature since the 1980s Charity SCRIBNER: Engendering the Subject of Terror: Friedrich Christian Delius and Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Mid-1980s Ingo CORNILS: Joined at the Hip? The Representation of the German Student Movement and Left-Wing Terrorism in Recent Literature Sven KRAMER: Christian Geissler: Critical Companion of the Left Gerrit-Jan BERENDSE: Shakespeare’s Children in Dialogue: Erich Fried and Heiner Müller Birgit HAAS: Terrorism and Theatre in Germany Cinematic Imageries Julian PREECE: Reinscribing the German Autumn: Heinrich Breloer’s Todesspiel and the Two Clusters of German ‘Terrorist’ Films Chris HOMEWOOD: Making Invisible Memory Visible: Communicative Memory and Taboo in Andres Veiel’s Black Box BRD Annette VOWINCKEL: Skyjacking: Cultural Memory and the Movies Gabriele MUELLER: Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective: Carow’s Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind and Dresen’s Raus aus der Haut Ewout van der KNAAP: The New Executioners’ Arrival: German Left-Wing Terrorism and the Memory of the Holocaust Epilogue Jeremy VARON: Stammheim Forever and the Ghosts of Guantánamo: Cultural Memory and the Politics of Incarceration Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Photographic Credits Index

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Trade Review"The authors argue that queer, black, brown, and foreign bodies, and the so-called threats they represent, such as immigration reform and same-sex marriage, have been effectively linked with terrorism. These awful conflations … are enduring and help to explain the contradictions of contemporary U.S. politics. We are far from a post post-9/11 world." – Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco "If you want to understand how a new biopolitics of citizenship is containing bodies of the nation by re-inscribing sex and race into it and how this new biopolitics is being resisted you must read this book." – Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsWilliam C. Gay: Editorial Foreword Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo: Preface Introduction G. W. Bush Administration Narratives of Threat and Containment Same-Sex Marriage as “Domestic Terrorism” Bodies that Resisted Containment The Merger of Immigration, Citizenship, and Same-Sex Marriage Constructions of Threat and the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Threatening Bodies in the Age of Obama Conclusion Works Cited About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThe years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.Trade Review“In its entirety, Literature and Terrorism is clearly the more comprehensive and more nuanced of the two volumes, with a broader scope, a larger extent of theoretical groundwork, and a more diversified and critical approach to the phenomenon that ‘9/11’ has become over the past thirteen years.” - Birgit Däwes, Flensburg, in: Amerikastudien / American Studies 60.1 (2016)Table of ContentsMichael C. Frank and Eva Gruber: Literature and Terrorism: Introduction The Emergence of the Terrorist in Fiction: Literary-Historical Approaches Gudrun Braunsperger: Sergey Nechaev and Dostoevsky’s Devils: The Literary Answer to Terrorism in Nineteenth-Century Russia Michael C. Frank: Plots on London: Terrorism in Turn-of-the-Century British Fiction Hendrik Blumentrath: Enmity and the Archive: Aesthetics of Defiguration in Literature and Criminology, 1900/1970 Pre- and Post-9/11 Representations of Terrorism in Fiction: Continuities and Breaks Eva Gruber: Narrating Terrorism on the Eve of 9/11: Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto Martina Wolff: Self, Identity and Terrorism in Current American Literature: American Pastoral and Terrorist Roy Scranton: The 9/11 Novel and the Politics of Narcissism Margaret Scanlan: After the Apocalypse: Novelists and Terrorists since 9/11 Michael König: Literary Accounts of Terrorism in Recent German Literature: An Attempt at Marginalization? Narrativizations of Terror: Media and Modes, Plot and Form Ulrich Meurer: Double-mediated Terrorism: Gerhard Richter and Don DeLillo’s “Baader-Meinhof” Kirsten Mahlke: A Fantastic Tale of Terror: Argentina’s “Disappeared” and Their Narrative Representation in Julio Cortázar’s “Second Time Round” Georgiana Banita: Middle Hours: Terrorism and Narrative Emplotment in Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days The Question of Genre: Drama and Narrative Literature after 9/11 Marie-Luise Egbert: Narratives of Terror: A New Paradigm for the Novel? Herbert Grabes: The Impact of “September 11”: Dramatic and Narrative Creations Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisNarrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction explores fiction that experiments in innovative ways with formal strategies so as to engage with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and their repercussion. This study demonstrates how certain novels create narratives about the 9/11 attacks that refuse to shy away from exploring and representing their difficult and problematic aspects and, in fact, insist on doing so as the only means of coming to terms with the events in all their cultural and historical specificity. As such, these texts implicitly advocate a notion of literature as a dynamic negotiation of the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, politics, culture, and history. Indeed, they assert and reassert the viability of literature as a mode of critical inquiry that can engage and contribute to the socio-political debates of its time and to the construction of narratives about significant historical and cultural events.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction Chapter 1: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World Chapter 2: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Chapter 3: Jess Walter’s The Zero Chapter 4: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man Chapter 5: Ian McEwan’s Saturday Bibliography Index

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