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Facing terror: fear in the aftermath of 9/11

On June 11, 2001, exactly three months before 9/11, Americans sat comfortably on their couches as they were transported via their television screens to Terre Haute, Indiana. That was the setting for the execution of the country's top…

9/11: The bonfire of false certainties

The nineteenth century French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville was writing about ā€œlā€™ancien regimeā€ less than a lifetime after the 1789 French Revolution. The French people, Tocqueville wrote, had cut their destiny in two and were…

Well done, NATO!

With the approach of the opposition to Sirte, NATOā€™s Operation Unified Protector over Libya will likely soon be scaled down. Nigh on ten years after 9/11, and after a grueling decade of controversy and division, the Alliance can finally…