CULTURES OF WAR (ROUND TWO)

Abstract

In this second round of essays on John Dower's Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq (Norton, 2010) participants expand upon and/or clarify the articles they contributed in the first round, published in Critical Asian Studies 43:2 (2011), and address themselves to points raised by the other participants. Participants include Sheila Miyoshi Jager (Oberlin), Monica Kim (Chicago), Ravi Arvind Palat (Binghamton), Emily S. Rosenberg (UC-Irvine), and Ussama Makdisi (Rice). A copy of this Roundtable (parts 1 and 2) is downloadable (gratis) from the Critical Asian Studies website: www.criticalasianstudies.org.

Notes

* Reference to memo sent by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to President Bush on 25 January 2002, in which Gonzales writes that the “new paradigm” of the war on terrorism “renders obsolete Geneva's strict provisions on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.” Internal memo obtained by Newsweek and reported in John Barry, Michael Hirsh, and Michael Isikoff, “The roots of torture—The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war.” Newsweek, 23 May 2004.

^† Available online at krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arguments-from-personal-incredulity/ (accessed 24 August 29, 2011).

^† Saudi Arabia prints 1.5m copies of religious edict banning protests. Guardian, 29 March 2011.

^§ Walt and Mearsheimer 2006.

^‡ Available at www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110711; accessed 28 August 2011.

* Palat 2004, 7–8.

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Laura Hein

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