Estados Unidos debe comprender que la seguridad total no es posible. Los ataques del 11 S generaron en dirigentes políticos como Bush y en gran parte de la opinión pública estadounidense una sensación de profunda incertidumbre. Implícitamente se cree que el único reaseguro frente a un...

Estados Unidos debe comprender que la seguridad total no es posible. Los ataques del 11 S generaron en dirigentes políticos como Bush y en gran parte de la opinión pública estadounidense una sensación de profunda incertidumbre. Implícitamente se cree que el único reaseguro frente a un...

Los sucesos del 11-S derivaron en la implementación por parte de los Estados Unidos de una estrategia de seguridad nacional esgrimida en torno al concepto de Legítima Defensa Preventiva. Desde el derecho internacional público, el mismo revitalizó una marcada división doctrinaria entre...

We examine the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism, differentiating between level- and rate-of-change-effects associated with market-capitalist development and their respective relationship with anti-U.S. violence. Using panel data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, we...

The present study examines survey data from 45 countries by the means of factor and regression analyses in order to understand the nature and causes of anti-Americanism. Empirical results reveal a clear distinction between cultural and political anti-Americanism. The former involves negative...

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...

In 2004 Hollywood produced three purportedly blockbuster epic films: Troy, King Arthur and Alexander. Many critics suggested a direct link between the 1950s “sword and sandal” epic and this new crop of movies. Similarities between the two cycles certainly exist but in this essay I want to...

This analysis uses survey data representing three of the world’s most populous Muslim majority countries to challenge conventional wisdom on what shapes Muslim public opinion on political violence against the United States. It improves previous analysis by clearly distinguishing support...

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It uses two theoretical frameworks, both of which contrast the pacifying effects of higher levels of capitalist development with the potentially destabilizing effects of a transition towards capitalism, but differ with...