America and the misshaping of a new world order / [electronic resource]
Gunn, Giles B.
Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2010.
This text tells how the attempt by the George W. Bush's administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11th, 2001, appears to have resulted in a catastrophic 'misshaping' of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide.
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text tells how the attempt by the George W. Bush's administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11th, 2001, appears to have resulted in a catastrophic 'misshaping' of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide.
Description based on print version record.
Introduction: the place of culture in the play of international politics / Giles Gunn -- America's mission / Ronald Steel -- From virgin land to Ground Zero: the mythological foundations of the homeland security state / Donald Pease -- Pre-emption, the future, and the imagination / David Palumbo-Liu -- Imaginary homeland security : the internationalization of terror / Simon Ortiz and Gabriele Schwab -- From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush: what happened to American civil religion? / Wade Clark Roof -- Why America has been the target for religious terror / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Gendered tropes and the new world order: cowboys, welfare queens and presidential politics at home and abroad / Eileen Boris -- Air Raids : television and the war on terror / Lisa Parks -- Culture, U.S. imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Metaphors of sovereignty / Lisa Lowe -- On humanitarian intervention : a new world order dilemma / Richard Falk.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
Terrorism
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
Terrorism
Regions & Countries - Americas
History & Archaeology
United States - General