A world remade: 9/11, America and the western world

ABSTRACT

‘A World Remade’ is intended as a very personal afterword to the Special issue. It melds personal experience with historical analysis to consider the impact of 9/11 on both U.S. and global security.

KEYWORDS:

• 9/11
• hijacking
• securitization

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLm3pkAiJQ.

2 ‘The Global War on Terrorism: The First 100 Days’. US Department of State Archive. https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/ct/rls/wh/6947.htm.

3 Wong (2006). Gorham-Oscilowski and Jaeger (2008).

4 Haynes (2004).

5 It does try however. ‘Organizational Chart.’ Homeland Security. https://www.dhs.gov/organizational-chart.

6 FACT SHEET: National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism (2021).

7 The number of books and articles, including my own, would fill a reasonably sized library. For our purposes, a primer will suffice, Griff White.

8 Mlodoch (2017).

9 Again, for the sake of brevity, see The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

10 Fallows (2007).

11 Alaaldin (2018).