...Lawrence R. Schehr The French warning system against possible acts of terror, called Vigipirate, is a color-coded plan for raising awareness of the citizenry of France and a program of precautionary activities and policies. Each of the four stages of the alert—yellow, orange, red, and scarlet...

.... Working through uncertainty and surprise, total war presents itself as environmental terror. Through the concept of resilience, this essay examines environmental terror in the practices of civil defense and how, when harnessed to liberal critiques of modernity, this terror has been generalized...

...Luke Gibbons Luke Gibbons Topographies of Terror: Killarney and the Politics of the Sublime Let them talk of Killarney, its lovely fine shades, Its woods and its wilds and its dreadful cascades, Its mountains, its monsters, my passions are human Give me to contemplate a lovely fine woman! A week...

...John Milbank 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 John Milbank Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and Terror Concerning the immediate aftermath...

...J. Bowyer Bell Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Transnational Terror and World Order J. Bowyer Bell Transnational order has always rested on a delicate web easily shaken for profit, out of perversity, in the name of need, or for national interest. There have always been danger...

...David L. Dowd Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 SECURITY AND THE SECRET POLICE DURING THE REIGN OF TERROR* David L. Dowd IN AUTHORITARIAN and totalitarian states the secret police is a force of incalculable influence; even in democratic countries the centralized security agencies...

...Rebecca Comay 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Rebecca Comay Dead Right: Hegel and the Terror Endlessly debated and redrafted in the fateful summer of 1789, the first version of the Declara- tion of the Rights...

...John Michael 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 John Michael Beyond Us and Them: Identity and Terror from an Arab American’s Perspective Orientalist Romance...

...Kenneth Surin 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Kenneth Surin ‘‘The Night Can Sweat with Terror As Before Afterthoughts Before we went...

...Samuel Weber 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Samuel Weber War, Terrorism, and Spectacle: On Towers and Caves War and terrorism have traditionally been asso- ciated with one another, but to link them both...

...John Carlos Rowe 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent . Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1921 . DeLillo, Don. “In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September.” Harper's , December 2001 , 33 –40. “Ruins.” ———. Libra...

...Carol Watts 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Carol Watts A Comedy of Terrors: Candide and the Jus Publicum Europaeum If there is an eighteenth-century commentary on the ‘‘image of that great epoch of jus publicum...

...Jan Ilhan Kizilhan In recent years Islamic terrorism has manifested itself with an unexpectedly destructive force. Even though in most cases it started locally, it has spread its terror over the whole world. In August 2014, when troops of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” invaded areas...

... their countries' strikingly different assumptions about and approaches to terrorism. Ultimately, the rhetorical dimensions of domestic security come to involve a threat to civic discourse that can be cured only by a civilian-imposed silence on the government. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 James Mandrell...

...Colin Dayan No concept has been as central to constitutional law as due process. In the current war on terror and the Bush administration's treatment of suspected terrorists, no protection is more threatened. The cases that pertain to due process—when it is due and how much—are crucial to the lives...

... Eastern” appearance was attacked. It is significant that the Cronulla race riots took place on the beach, a site where cultural differences have been contested in Australia's past—and present, in light of the war on terror. Cronulla is steeped in surfing tradition, and a cultural process known to surfers...

... whatever, even of the wildest kind.... such was my terror of the white circle on the wall, and of the moving slides.” Using Martineau's anecdote as a starting point, this essay considers the ways in which optical devices became an integral part of the “sensory structuring of experience” in the Victorian...

...Steven Bruhm Recently Hollywood has remade a number of movies from the 1970s, movies in which young women are terrorized by a murderer calling from a telephone located elsewhere in the house. In the remakes, the murderer uses a cell phone, which effectively destroys the sense of space and distance...

... that the exceptional politics aligned with the U.S. war on terror has put this notion of humanitarian war into crisis, this essay argues for a more nuanced reading that moves beyond limited sovereign frames of reference. Not only has the history of the liberal encounter been marked by violence in a manner in which...

...John D. Márquez; Junaid Rana Recent mobilizations against police terror in cities across the United States can be described as expected and unexpected. They are expected by those conscious of the genealogy of racial/colonial violence. In this sense, radical resistance is always already logical...