Re-Interrogating 9/11: A 25th Anniversary Debate
Notas del episodio
To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Aimen and Thomas take a deeper, wider look at the historical, ideological, and geopolitical context on either side of that momentous world-changing event.
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Aimen and Thomas discuss:
- Was 9/11 an ending as well as a beginning?
- The myth of the peaceful 1990s
- America inherited a geopolitical mess after the USSR's collapse
- America as a revolutionary power
- Could preserving Middle Eastern monarchies have prevented later disasters?
- Al-Qaeda and liberal globalisation
- Jihadism amid the wreckage of earlier promises
- Was the War on Terror a rupture or an acceleration?
- Bin Laden’s selective use of history
- History without a puppet master
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Produced and edited by Thomas Small.
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