Suchergebnisse

Mainstream media analyses and a large majority of scholarly accounts in European capitals and the US focus disproportionately on the terrorists, or the individuals and organizations involved in the War on Terror. Such mainstream analyses of 9/11 and its aftermath regularly portray citizens and countries in the global South as incapable of resisting or fighting against extremism in their own terms. This article aims to complexify the narrative of Sept. 11, extending it in time and space, and tires to think the post-11 September decade from a de-centered/postcolonial perspective -- that is, a different perspective of the dominant narratives prevalent in the power centers of the global North/West. Adapted from the source document.

The following books are reviewed: "Empires of Mud -- Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan" by Antonio Giustozzi (C. Hurst & Co., 2009); (2) "The Afghanistan Challenge -- Hard Realities and Strategic Choices" edited by Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Charles Pentland (School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, 2009); and (3) "Armed Militias of South Asia -- Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists" edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot (C. Hurst & Co., 2010). Adapted from the source document.