9/11 and the Rise of Political Fundamentalism in the White House: Domestic Legitimatisation versus International Estrangement

by Robert G. Patman and Dirk Nabers, published in Global Change, Peace and Security, Volume 20-2, June 2008, pp. 169-184.

Out of Sync: Bush's Expanded National Security State and the War on Terror

The US national security state was fashioned at the beginning of the Cold War to contain the global threat of the rival superpower, the Soviet Union. However, this security framework did not wither away with the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the USSR. The events of September 11 starkly exposed the limitations of a state-centric approach to international security in a globalizing world.

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