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单词 war on terrorism
释义
war on terrorism

Geography
  • An operation initiated by the United States government under George W. Bush, using legal, military, personal, and political actions to limit the spread of terrorism after 9/11. Graham (2006, Int. J. Urb. & Reg. Res. 30, 2) describes the reworking of US cities in order to construct them as ‘homeland’ spaces, re-engineered in the interests of ‘national security’, while Dalby (2007, Geopolitics 12, 4) outlines the ‘dichotomous mapping of the world into civilized core and dangerous periphery’. Thobani (2007) Feminist Theory 8, 2 examines the practices that constitute whiteness, triggered by the war on terror, and Macrae and Harmer (2003) Overseas Dev. Inst. provide a clear review of the issues. See Amore (2009) Antipode 41, 1, 49.


World History
  • The war launched by President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the outrage of September 11, 2001, when he vowed that the USA would use its armed might to destroy terrorist organizations and any regimes that harbour them. In October 2001 the USA attacked Afghanistan, using air strikes to destroy the command centres of the al‐Qaeda movement and to bring down the anti‐Western Taliban regime. Subsequently, the focus shifted to so‐called “rogue states” such as Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which was invaded and occupied by US‐led forces in 2003 (see iraq war).


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