In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments forward since 9/11, contending that our failure to acknowledge that "this" Cold War continues today is precisely what makes it so dangerous.With eloquence and urgency Meyers argues that the mantra of our time everything changed on 9/11 is false and pernicious. By contrast, "Civic War and the...
In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emerg...
