Perin Gurel is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Concurrent Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The global and local fronts of our endless “War on Terror” intersect around the suspect figure of the Muslim. What might this...
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Stalemate: A Short History of Sanctions against Iran
Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf Since the 1979 Islamic revolution and the subsequent hostage crisis, the United States has imposed sanctions against Iran on a continuous basis. The initial measures were moderately influential in resolving the hostage crisis, when combined...
A Necessary War Taken to Unnecessary Extremes
Michael Desch The United States’ military response to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan following 9/11 was morally justified. It was an act of self-defense against a dangerous Taliban regime in cahoots with the perpetrators of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the...