Can
we
write
about
the
Global
War
on
Terror
(GWOT)
in
the
past
tense?
With
ongoing
talk
of
a
return
to
great
power
rivalry,
the
U.S.
withdrawal
from
Afghanistan
and
Iraq,
and
the
primacy
of
combating
a
global
pandemic,
many
Western
governments
are
eager
to
frame
the
war-on-terror
era
as
over.
But
even
if
the
formal
infrastructure
of
war
retracts,
the
social
relations,
logics,
and
material
resources
from
the
planetary
war
are
set
to
shape
our
collective
futures.
Long
after
the
departure
of
European
empires
in
the
mid-20th
century,
the
postcolonial
world
remained
beholden
to
colonial-era
structures
and
norms.
Likewise,
the
legacies
of
the
GWOT—its
laws,
language,
cultural
norms,
political
hierarchies,
and
material
artifacts—
will
reverberate
across
global,
national,
and
local
scales
in
the
decades
to
come.
The
9/11
Legacies
project
presents
a
diverse
set
of
perspectives
from
across
academia,
policy
circles,
and
journalism
to
reflect
on
the
more
enduring,
subtle,
and
(at
times)
pernicious
legacies
of
9/11
and
the
Global
War
on
Terror.
The
project
seeks
to
answer
one
overarching
question:
in
what
ways
will
our
post-GWOT
era
be
shaped by the Global War on Terror?
The
9/11
Legacies
project
was
established
on
the
20th
anniversary
of
9/11
by
Ameem
Lutfi
(
Research
Fellow,
Middle
East
Institute,
National
University
of
Singapore)
and
Kevin L. Schwartz
(Research Fellow, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences).
The project benefits from funding from the
Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences.
Departing
from
the
general
trend
in
scholarly
inquiries
and
popular
inves
-
tigations
of
the
post-9/11
era
that
focus
on
the
political,
legal,
religious,
and
social
positionality
of
Muslims
vis-à-vis
the
West,
political
institu
-
tions in their home (…)
9/11 and Sectarianism in Islam;
Counter-Terrorism Debates
among Muslim Groups of Kerala,
India
By: M Sihabudheen Kolakkattil
By: Angeliki Coletsou
Visual Representations of Iran
in Western Media after 9/11
The
year
2001
has
been
considered
a
turning
point
in
the
rapid
increase
of
Islamophobia
and
Islamophobic
de
-
pictions
in
Western
media,
especially
concerning Arab and Muslim (…)
By: Elena Fellner
Redefining Terrorism: Iran, the
U.S., and the War on Terror
Mohammad
Javad
Zarif
likes
to
lecture.
That
much
is
obvious
to
anyone
who
has
ever
read
more
than
a
handful
of
tweets
by
Iran’s
previous
foreign
minister
(2013-2021),
and
it
is
especially striking (…)
Before
the
9/11
tragedy
struck
American
soil,
U.S.
facilities
in
the
Persian
Gulf
region
were
placed
on
a
heightened
state
of
alert,
as
U.S.
au
-
thorities
were
informed
that
“American
citizens
abroad
may
be
tar
-
geted
by
extremist
groups
with
links
to bin Laden’s organisation (…)
How the Sands Have Shifted:
Reflections on 9/11 as a Chapter
in U.S.-Gulf Relations
By: Clemens Chay
Days
before
the
U.S.-led
forces
in
-
vaded
Afghanistan
to
avenge
the
at
-
tacks
on
9/11,
President
George
W.
Bush
outlined
his
approach
to
the
Global
War
on
Terror
(GWOT):
“Our
war
on
terror
begins
with
al-Qaeda,
but
it
does
not
end
there.”
What
fol
-
lowed was a worldwide (…)
Iran’s Exclusion and Lost
Opportunities in the U.S.-Led
Global War on Terror
By: Asif Shuja
© 2022 Oriental Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Kevin L. Schwartz, and Ameem Lutfi
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Legacies of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
Volume 1, edited by Ameem Lutfi and Kevin L. Schwartz, 2022