Streets without joy : a political history of sanctuary and war, 1959-2009 /

America's wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist 'sanctuaries' and 'safe havens.' From mountain redoubts in Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq, Washington's policymakers maintained an unwavering focus on finding and destroying th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Innes, Michael A., 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Sarajevo routine
  • "This is serious business" : seeking truth from facts
  • "Dangerous propaganda bait" : the three contingencies of sanctuary historiography
  • "None of the ordinary categories" : the Cold War, Indochina and the equivocations of Bernard Fall
  • "Call it what you will" : from Saigon to Baghdad, by way of Tripoli
  • "The sole line that anyone remembers" : presidential rhetoric and the harboring principle
  • "A more granular sense of where" : the 9-11 Commission's sanctuary recommendations
  • "Next level" : operationalized variants in the interagency process
  • Casteau routine.