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The After Sept. 11 website contains a selection of essays, including many shorter, quick-take versions of the chapters included in this volume.

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Understanding September 11

Edited by Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer


Table of Contents

Introduction
Craig Calhoun, Paul Price and Ashley Timmer

I. Islamic Radicalism

1. Religious Terror and Global War
Mark Juergensmeyer

2. The Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Robert Hefner

3. "Traditionalist" Islamic Activism: Deoband, Tablighis, and Talibs
Barbara D. Metcalf

4. The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances
Timur Kuran

II. Globalization

5. The Globalization of Informal Violence, Theories of World Politics, and "the Liberalism of Fear"
Robert O. Keohane

6. Violence, Law and Justice in a Global Age
David Held

7. Governance Hotspots: Challenges We Must Confront in the Post-September 11 World
Saskia Sassen

8. The United States and the World Economy After September 11th
Barry Eichengreen

III. New War/New World Order?

9. States, Terrorists, and the Clash of Civilizations
Jack A. Goldstone

10. Beyond Militarism, Arms Races and Arms Control
Mary Kaldor

11. 9-11: Before, After, and In Between
James Der Derian

12. Is Cyber Terror Next?
Dorothy E. Denning

13. Black September, Infantile Nihilism, and National Security
Bruce Cumings

14. On War and Peace-Building: Unfinished Legacy of the 1990s
Susan L. Woodward

IV. Terrorism and Democratic Virtues

15. Unholy Politics. Reclaiming Democratic Virtues after September 11
Seyla Benhabib

16. Terrorism and the Assault on Politics
Peter Alexander Meyers

17. The Threat to Patriotism
Ronald Dworkin

18. Guarding the Gates
Aristide Zolberg

V. Competing Narratives

19. The Political Psychology of Competing Narratives: September 11 and Beyond
Marc Howard Ross

20. Ordinary Feelings, Extraordinary Events: Moral Complexity in 9/11
Rajeev Bhargava

21. Close Encounters: Islam, Modernity and Violence
Nilüfer Göle

22. America and the World: The Twin Towers as Metaphor
Immanuel Wallerstein

23. Violence and Home: Afghan Women's Experience of Displacement
Saba Gul Khattak

24. Memorializing Absence
Marita Sturken

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