Political geographers have repeatedly demonstrated how the ‘global war on/of terror’ has led to repressive and unjust international domestic policies. Nevertheless, little been said about multifold intertwinements between such ‘Western’ perceptions their shaping of anti-terrorism efforts within. To this end, paper draws on recent feminist understandings scale, global/local processes, geopolitic...

______________ 1See Appendix A for a list of the Department of Defense Directives (DoDDs) relevant to continuity of government activities. 2See Federation of American Scientists, 1999a. Press interest in federal COG programs increased after the cold war. See Emerson (1989) and Gup (1991, 1992). 3Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution seems to provide the constitutional authority for milita...

Organized terrorist activity produced by transnational sub-state actors and directed at American targets has been a constant feature of the post-war global arena, especially since 1968. Th is period has in fact been referred to as “the age of terrorism” (Laqueur 1987), making terrorism in general and anti-u.s. terrorism in particular, an important if often overlooked feature of the modern world...

Although international terrorism is not a new risk, the perceived nature of risk associated with terrorist attacks has changed radically with the unutterably abominable September 11, 2001 events (9/11) (Liedtke and Courbage, 2002). These attacks killed nearly 3,050 persons, leading people to perceive in which state of insecurity they were living. Until then the risk of such large-scale attacks ...