Six Years Since 9/11
Roundtable
Six years since 9/11, the tragedy continues to resonate--not only among victims' families as well as New Yorkers who were here on that day but also among scholars who have studied the profound and long-ranging social and political consequences of the al-Qaeda attacks on American soil. To mark the sixth anniversary of that fateful day, the Social Science Research Council has invited several leading social scientists to deliver a status report: how well have the United States and other governments responded to issues such as the growth of Islamic radicalism, increased violence from non-state actors, and tensions between civil liberties and security measures? Our roundtable features several social scientists who contributed essays on these and related topics to the SSRC's Web-based forum After September 11 (subsequently a two-volume book series) along with one newcomer, sociologist Gil Eyal.
Compiled, condensed, and edited by Mary-Lea Cox.
Contents
- Gil Eyal
- The last six years could have been used to address some of the major sources of unrest and grievance in the Middle East -- most importantly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
- Kanishka Jayasuriya
- Representative institutions in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia have failed to contest the drift towards executive and administrative discretion over emergency powers...
- Luis Rubio
- In the United States, 9/11 has become an excuse for having a very partisan debate on immigration...
- Saskia Sassen
- The vast numbers of soldiers killed in World War II seems so far removed from today’s intermediated wars. Yesterday’s soldier deaths are today’s civilian death...
- Aristide Zolberg
- As I watched the second tower coming down from my rooftop in downtown Manhattan, I screamed: "What an intelligence failure!" Everything we have learned since... has confirmed the validity of that judgment...
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