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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 July 2009
      23 April 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511509834
      9780521875165
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509834
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.664kg, 378 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus, detailing the ideological, bureaucratic, electoral and (not least) emotional forces that severely distorted the American understanding of, and response to, the terrorist threat. He also shows how the gratuitous and disastrous shift of attention from al Qaeda to Iraq was shaped by a series of misleading theoretical perspectives on the end of deterrence, the clash of civilizations, humanitarian intervention, unilateralism, democratization, torture, intelligence gathering and wartime expansions of presidential power. The author's breadth of knowledge about the War on Terror leads to conclusions about present-day America that are at once sobering in their depth of reference and inspiring in their global perspective.

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    'Holmes has written a powerful and philosophically erudite survey of what we think we understand about the 9/11 attacks.'

    Source: Middle East Online

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