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  • Selling Fear

    Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion

    by Brigitte L. Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Robert Y. Shapiro ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    While we’ve long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, Selling Fear is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism—and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear.Drawing on in-depth analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11—including the issuance of ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism

    by Brigitte L. Nacos ...
    Focusing on the continued terrorist threat by jihadist groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, and homegrown violent far-right and far-left extremists in the West, Terrorism and Counterterrorism investigates this form of political violence in a historical and contemporary context. In this comprehensive and highly readable text, renowned expert Brigitte Nacos clearly defines terrorism’s diverse causes, ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • Hate Speech and Political Violence

    Far-Right Rhetoric from the Tea Party to the Insurrection

    by Brigitte L. Nacos, Robert Shapiro, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon ...
    How did the United States descend into crisis, with institutions frayed, political violence mounting, and democracy itself in peril? This timely book identifies how the Tea Party and its extremist narratives laid the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump, his MAGA movement, and the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.Brigitte L. Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, and Robert Y. Shapiro trace the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Mass-Mediated Terrorism

    Mainstream and Digital Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism

    by Brigitte Nacos ...
    With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media’s appetite for shocking, sensational, and tragic stories has always resulted in over-coverage of terrorist events and threats. But today, ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Decisionmaking in a Glass House

    Mass Media, Public Opinion, and American and European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

    by Bruce Chadwick, Dennis Chiu, Richard C. Eichenberg, Robert M. Entman, Philip Everts, Ronald H. Hinckley, Ole R. Holsti, Natasha Hritzuk, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Steven Kull0, Natalie La Balme1, Benjamin I. Page2, Clay Ramsay3, Robert Y. Shapiro4, Martin Shaw6, Eric Shiraev7, Richard Sinnott8, Richard Sobel9, Eugene R. Wittkopf0, John Zaller1, Vlad Zubok2 ...
    No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr

    by Ezra Levant ...
    A controversial look at the headline-making story of the last Western prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and the larger implications to national security, justice, and international relations.Omar Khadr is the last Western prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. He has been held at the American naval base since October 2002, accused of killing a U.S. sergeant in Afghanistan. Khadr was fifteen at ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Reign of Terror

    How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

    by Spencer Ackerman ...
    **A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021"An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued." —The New York Times"One of the most illuminating books to come out of the Trump era." —New York MagazineAn ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • 9-11

    Was There an Alternative?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity that choked off American discourse in the months immediately following. Chomsky placed the ... Read more

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  • Thinking about Democracy

    Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Spiral

    Trapped in the Forever War

    by Mark Danner ...
    In “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism” (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever altered by President George W. Bush’s war of choice after 9/11.The War on Terror has led to fifteen years of armed conflict, the longest war in America’s history. Al Qaeda, the organization that attacked us ... Read more

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  • The End of the West?

    Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order

    Edited by Jeffrey J. Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Risse ...
    The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies, largely due to the deployment of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the commitment of national forces to the occupation of Iraq. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of contention. The End of the West? addresses some basic questions: Are we witnessing a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD