Michael A. Innes

Streets without Joy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

America's wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist 'sanctuaries' and 'safe havens'. From mountain redoubts in Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq, Washington's policy-makers maintained an unwavering focus on finding and destroying the refuges, bases and citadels of modern guerrilla movements, and holding their sponsors to account.

This was a preoccupation embedded in nearly every official speech and document of the time, a corpus of material that offered a new logic for thinking about the world. As an exercise in political communication, it was a spectacular success. From 2001 to 2009, President George W. Bush and his closest advisors set terms of reference that cascaded down from the White House, through government and into the hearts and minds of Americans. 'Sanctuary' was the red thread running through all of it, permeating the decisions and discourses of the day.

Where did this obsession come from? How did it become such an important feature of American political life? In this new political history, Michael A. Innes explores precedents, from Saigon to Baghdad, and traces how decision-makers and their advisors used ideas of sanctuary to redefine American foreign policy, national security, and enemies real and imagined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787386785
• Artikelnr.: 62599037

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Innes (PhD, SOAS) is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Dept. of War Studies, King's College London, and Director of the Conflict Records Unit in the department's Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War. He is also an associate of LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and of the Department of Politics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. As a scholar and practitioner, he has covered conflicts across Africa, Asia and the Middle East for over twenty years. In 20039, he was a civilian advisor with NATO, working from headquarters in Europe and the Balkans and on operations in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina.