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In earlier chapters I have sketched ways in which existential anxieties played into both Manichean, apocalyptic understandings of contemporary issues and constricted policy debates. I have argued for broader religious dialogue, altered patterns of consumption and energy use, more leisure time and different modes of relating, as well as policy changes as a way of addressing not only the crises but the mindsets and ways of being in the world that inflect these crises.
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See, for instance, Charles W. Kegley, Jr and Shannon L. Blanton, World Politics: Trend and Transformation (Boston: Wadsworth, 2010), chapter 2.
James Der Derian, Critical Practices in International Theory (New York: Routledge, 2009), 152.
Juan Cole, Friday, April 3, 2009, “Top Ten Ways the US is Turning Afghanistan into Iraq,” Informed Consent Blog.
William Blum, “The Myth of the Gipper: Reagan Didn’t End the Cold War,” Counterpunch, June 7, 2004, http://www.counterpunch.org/blum06072004. html.
See George Will, “Congress’s Unused War Powers,” Washington Post, November 4, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110201785.html.
See Jean Elshtain, Women and War (New York: Basic Books, 1986), concluding chapter.
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Buell, J. (2011). National Security and Apocalypse. In: Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339231_7
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