Critical Views of September 11

Analyses from Around the World

Edited by Eric Hershberg and Kevin W. Moore

Project coordinated by the Social Science Research Council

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The months since the World Trade Center bombing have seen a tidal wave of quick prognostications and breakneck analysis by instant experts on the payrolls of the major news stations. Yet it is increasingly clear that the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks marked a seismic shift in American life, and that the full reverberations of the events have yet to be felt. In Critical Views of September 11, the nation’s foremost thinkers offer the most informed and penetrating analysis of the long-term impact of the crisis of terrorism, sketching for the first time the unexpected world of the twenty-first century.

Essays in the volume examine the impact of September 11 on international relations, democracy, warfare, global markets, immigration policy, and perceptions of Islam, among many other topics. For all of us who seek deeper understanding in troubling times, Critical Views of September 11 will provide the most complete roadmap yet available to a rapidly changing world.

Craig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Resource Council. His books include the prize-winning Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China; Nationalism; The Question of Class Struggle; and Critical Social Theory. His work has been translated into ten languages. Paul Price is a program officer at the SSRC. He is associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Ashley Timmer is applied economics program director at the SSRC. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and has published in the Population and Development Review.