South Korea in 2004: Peninsular Flux

The variables presaging fundamental change on the Korean Peninsula are many. This assessment of South Korea seeks to lay out the political, economic, and military events of 2004 and their relationship to South Korean grand strategy. It also seeks to analyze the linkages between Seoul's grand strategy and the U.S.-led global war on terror.

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A Curriculum of Fear

10.5749/minnesota/9780816698264.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Nicole Nguyen

Keyword(s):

School Reform ◽

Homeland Security ◽

War On Terror ◽

The Political ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Critical Scholarship ◽

The Social ◽

Global War ◽

The Impact ◽

The U.S

By traveling through daily life at the school, A Curriculum of Fear investigates how students and school staff made sense of, negotiated, and contested the intense focus on national security, terrorism, and their militarized responsibilities to the nation. Drawing from critical scholarship on school militarization, neoliberal school reform, the impact of the global war on terror on everyday life in the U.S., and the political uses of fear, this book maps the social, political, and economic contexts that gave rise to the school’s Homeland Security program and its popularity. Ultimately, as the first ethnography of a high school Homeland Security program, this book traces how Milton was not only “under siege”—shaped by the new normal imposed by the global war on terror—it actively prepared for the siege itself.

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U.S. Security Coordination and the “Global War on Terror”

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2019.49.1.25 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 25-46

Author(s):

Jeannette Greven

Keyword(s):

War On Terror ◽

Palestinian Authority ◽

Security Sector Reform ◽

Security Sector ◽

Sector Reform ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Security Personnel ◽

Run Up ◽

Global War ◽

The U.S

The U.S. Security Coordinator (USSC) mission in Jerusalem was created in 2005 to help implement security sector reform within the Palestinian Authority (PA). With a single-minded focus on “counterterrorism,” Washington considered the USSC an ancillary mechanism to support U.S. diplomatic and political efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite upending long-standing U.S. policy and cutting all other forms of aid to the Palestinians, the Trump administration has maintained the USSC in the run-up to the “Deal of the Century.” This article draws on original interviews with security personnel responsible for enacting USSC interventions. It uses their insights to highlight how the mission tethered Israeli political aims to its remit, and the distorting ramifications that have ensued for Palestine and the Palestinians. In uncovering the full parameters of Washington's securitization policy, this history also points to the ways in which the PA has consequently been woven into the U.S.-led “global War on Terror.”

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Sub-Saharan Africa as another front of the U.S. global war on terror

West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror ◽

10.4324/9780203104828-9 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 35-50

Keyword(s):

War On Terror ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Global War ◽

The U.S

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Introduction

A Woman's Place ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197506554.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-48

Author(s):

Joana Cook

Keyword(s):

War On Terror ◽

September 11 ◽

Current Analysis ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Global War ◽

The U.S

The introduction starts at 9/11 and provides a background of the consequences and implications of September 11 and the events that followed in the U.S. Global War on Terror (GWOT), highlighting a key gap in current analysis -- women as agents, partners and targets of counterterrorism. It discusses the importance of examining women through the cases of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Syria referenced throughout the book. It introduces the original framework developed in this book that allows readers to unpick how, where and why women became visible in the discourses and practices of counterterrorism. These include: the categories of 'women' in US counterterrorism discourses the 'factors' that impacted how women evolved in US counterterrorism practices and the justifications stated when including women. The story of women in counterterrorism is demonstrated to bring to light broader tensions in the GWOT. Finally, a summary of each chapter of the book is provided.

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The Illogical Logic of American Entanglement in the Middle East

Journal of Strategic Security ◽

10.5038/1944-0472.13.1.1771 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Ryan Burke ◽

Jahara Matisek

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

War On Terror ◽

State Building ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Striking Resemblance ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

Global War ◽

The U.S

The logic of the American approach to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria – both in policy and practice – bears striking resemblance to the U.S. approach to Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite policies of restraint, it has proven difficult to stop the inertia of war, be it against Communism or terrorism. As this inertia grows, so too does illogical entanglement. Such deepening involvement, whether in Vietnam or the Global War on Terror, often results in combat forces undertaking nation- and state-building missions that they are not designed for, yet have been doing for almost two decades.

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Northern Ireland as metaphor: Exception, suspicion and radicalization in the ‘war on terror’

Security Dialogue ◽

10.1177/0967010611425532 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 42 (6) ◽

pp. 483-498 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Didier Bigo ◽

Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

War On Terror ◽

Social Practices ◽

The Political ◽

Global War On Terror ◽

Northern Ireland Conflict ◽

Greater Good ◽

Global War

This article questions the fashionable view that Northern Ireland is a counterinsurgency lesson to be learned for the global ‘war on terror’. It suggests that Britain’s involvement in the Northern Ireland conflict – one of the longest conflicts within Europe in which a government has been at war with a clandestine organization – can be regarded as a meaningful metaphoric utterance in efforts to analyse the practical failures and threat discourses of the global ‘war on terror’. Northern Ireland is more than a specific case study: it acts as an appealing metaphor in attempts to understand the logics and pitfalls of the ‘war against terrorism’, where the increasing primacy granted to terror control – present and future – means that Western governments are increasingly more willing to infringe otherwise inviolable rights in the pursuit of a supposed greater good – security. The article explores the political economy of unease, suspicion, exception and radicalization in the ‘war against terrorism’. It concludes that Northern Ireland is not a model that can be exported around the globe but an invitation to analyse contingency, daily operations of security, and their effects on social practices and routines. Northern Ireland also represents a remarkable inducement to assess how exception, suspicion and radicalization are correlated, as well as to recognize that efforts to contain the unpredictability of the future are self-defeating.

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