Civic war & the corruption of the citizen /:

In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments...

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1. Verfasser: Meyers, Peter Alexander
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung:In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments forward since 9/11, contending that our failure to acknowledge that this Cold War continues today is precisely what makes it so dangerous. With eloquence and urgency Meyers argues that the mantra of our time--"everything changed on 9/11!"--Is false and pernicious. By contrast, Civic War and the Corru.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 361 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index.
ISBN:9780226522104
0226522105
1282070061
9781282070066

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