1. 'Europe is Scared ...' - The Narrative of Perpetual Peace.
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Manganas, Nicholas
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SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 , *MADRID Train Bombings, Madrid, Spain, 2004 , *LONDON Terrorist Bombings, London, England, 2005 , *PEACE - Abstract
This paper seeks to explore the grand narratives that have been produced in the post 9/11 era in Europe by looking at the March 11, 2004 attacks in Madrid, and the July 7, 2005 attacks in London. The paper will posit that the random nature of the Madrid and London attacks, and the apparent lack of meaning behind the 'message' of these attacks, destabilises a fundamental and mythological narrative of the European project: that the 'new Europe' is somehow beyond politics and has entered into a Kantian 'perpetual peace'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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