Global ‘war on terror’ and the battle for a dissenting civil society

Brown, Adam (2010) Global ‘war on terror’ and the battle for a dissenting civil society [Online resource]
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Shortly after 9/11, President Bush announced that “we do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.” The defeat of communism had left an ideological void and only through the events of 9/11 would a new ideological war be possible. The global ‘war on terror’ provided just this, an open-ended conflict for which to carry out a twenty-first century civilising mission.
Item Type Online resource
Copyright holders © 2010 The Author(s)
Departments LSE
Date Deposited 15 Jun 2017 10:14
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81335

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