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Ten years after the military intervention in Iraq, it is important to consider what has marked the Portuguese political debate in a relevant way, the more significant variables surrounding the government's decision and the transatlantic framework that defined the spirit and the political discussion around the intervention. The present essay thus aims at answering two questions: why Portugal decided to support the war and the reasons that lie at the basis of the organization of the Lajes Summit. Adapted from the source document.

This article analyses some expressions that spread around the world after the New York and Washington terrorist attacks, such as, "we are all Americans"; "the world changed after 9/11"; "the post-9/11" or "the 9/11 of...". Despite all these cliches could be analyzed with a wide range of dimensions, we use the transatlantic dimension, to conclude that the 9/11 events had changed some premises of the west liberal system and that other actors come in the international system organization. Adapted from the source document.