How do states' oil requirements influence US national security? Although a great deal of
attention has focused on “energy security,” scholars and policymakers lack satisfactory …

The events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent declaration of an open-ended “war
on terror” have given a new urgency to long-standing discussions of the relationship of Islam …

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the 'War on Terror', based on an
innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses …

International Relations (IR) scholars uncritically accept the official narrative regarding the
events of 9/11 and refuse to examine the massive body of evidence generated by the 9/11 …

In the previous decade, many scholars with expertise in the politics of the Middle East
pointed to an intellectual gulf between Middle East studies and mainstream international …

The last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and
globally. By some measures, America is on pace to become the world's biggest oil producer …

In 2004, in a review essay, Lisa Anderson found that most of the authors of the books she
reviewed on September 1 1 attacks on the World T rade Center in New York and the …

Whom a prime minister or president will not shake hands with is still more noticed than with
whom they will. Public identity can afford to be ambiguous about friends, but not about …

Contrary to both popular and academic belief, the'War on Terrorism'launched by the United
States has one very clear enemy: radical Islamism. The varied and complex world of …

The post-9/11 catch phrase-“It was just like in the movies!”–expressed our shock that we
understood the language of 9/11 as our own. The terrorists had turned our technology back …