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Since the infamous events of 911 the fear of terrorism and the determinationto strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. Thewar on terror discourse has developed not only through American politics butvia other channels including the media the church music novels films andtelevision and therefore permeates many aspects of American life. Stuart Croftsuggests that the process of this production of knowledge has created a veryparticular form of common sense which shapes relationships jokes and evenforms of tattoos. Understanding how a social process of crisis can be mappedout and how that process creates assumptions allows policymaking in Americaswar on terror to be examined from new perspectives. Using IR approachestogether with insights from cultural studies this book develops a dynamicmodel of crisis which seeks to understand the war on terror as a culturalphenomenon. «
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