Global events are the most heart-warming goodwill newsletter of modern times. Periodically,
they burst into social consciousness as part of an established cycle of global festivity (the …

This book uses a comparative analysis to examine foreign policy discourses and the
dynamics of the 'War on Terror'. The book considers the three principal members of the …

The Society and Space series explores the fascinating relationship between the spatial and
the social. Each title draws on a range of modern and historical theories to offer important …

'As Michel Foucault has famously stated,“knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting.” In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time.
While she is best-known for her interventions into feminist debates on gender, sexuality and …

9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness analyzes recent works of fiction whose principal
subject is the attacks of September 11, 2001. The readings of the novels question and …

The article provides a critical analysis of the concept of irony and how it relates to global
justice. Taking Richard Rorty as a lead, it is suggested that irony can foreground a sense of …

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Only three weeks after the events of 11 September 2001 (hereafter 9/11), Aaron Sorkin's The
West Wing delivered a special one-off episode, outside of usual storylines. The episode …

Today's international disaster management community faces demanding political and
ethical challenges. In International Disaster Management Ethics, Liza Ireni Saban suggests …