The commentariat and discourse failure: Language and atrocity in Cool Britannia
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Terrorist events of August 2006 and July 2005 in the UK, got extensive media and academic analysis. Study is presented to show that much of the commentary demonstrated a wide degree of failure among government agencies, academic and analytic experts and the wider media, about the nature of the threat and continues to distort comprehension of the extent danger. It is argued that a more realistic appreciation of the current security condition requires abandoning the prevailing view that the domestic threat is best prosecuted as criminal conspiracy.
Publication Name: International Affairs
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0020-5850
Year: 2006
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Greetings from the cybercaliphate: Some notes on homeland insecurity
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Analysis is done on how government policies often facilitated the non-negotiable identity politics of those promoting a pure authentic and regenerated Islamic order both in the UK and abroad. This reflected a profound misunderstanding of the growing source and appeal of radical Islam that can be interpreted as a consequence of the slow-motion collision between modernity in its recent globalized form and an Islamic social character, which renders the notion of social science, is deeply questionable.
Publication Name: International Affairs
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0020-5850
Year: 2005
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Is there a Sovietology of South-East Asian studies?
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Authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia successfully coopted academic study of the international relations of the region, which failed to predict the economic crisis of 1999-2000. This failure is compared to the failure of Sovietologists to predict the downfall of the Soviet Union ten years earlier.
Publication Name: International Affairs
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0020-5850
Year: 2001
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