“…Es también el momento para preguntarse si la “guerra contra el terror…”

“…Un hombre capaz de batirse como un héroe o de huir del enemigo antes del combate; de practicar los más bajos trabajos manuales y de prever los sucesos políticos; de sentir el terror y contagiarlo a los demás; de hacer azotar a su único hijo hasta causarle la muerte y luego sollozar en el regazo de una mujer; de servirse de su hacha con mas destreza que de un tenedor; de casarse con una cantinera y convertirla en emperatriz; de vivir como obrero, payaso o tirano; de obedecer como soldado y mandar como zar; de hacer progresar, a saltos, la Rusia medieval, de construir una flota, fundar San Petersburgo, conquistar el Cáucaso y vencer al invencible Carlos XII, de Suecia. …”

“…Quedan ustedes invitados a unirse a esta sesión sobrenatural y a adentrarse en una selección de los 50 títulos cinematográficos que consideramos imprescindibles sobre la temática fantasmal. Comedia, romance, terror, experimentación, acción, drama, fantasía? …”

“…Con su lucidez habitual y su extrema claridad, Giovanni Sartori presenta una serie de preguntas en torno a diez temas determinantes de la actualidad: la crisis de la política, los borrosos límites entre la libertad y la dictadura, el choque cultural y de civilizaciones entre el islam y el cristianismo, la «guerra contra el terror», el sistema electoral perfecto, la ola de inmigración y el derecho a la ciudadanía, y la delicada cuestión de cuándo la vida biológica se convierte en verdaderamente humana. …”

“…Here again, in the quest for responsibility on which value judgments are based, the choice of the king seems decisive: the fight against a still peaceful Revolution is at the origins of the chain of violence. War and Terror seem to me to be less programmed in a hyperrationalism which would be inherent in the Jacobin ideology than resulting from the great refusal which the dominant people then opposed to the Future and to Liberty…”

“…Die V-Männer des von Reinhard Heydrich geführten Sicherheitsdienstes (SD) stellen einen der letzten weißen Flecken der Topografie des NS-Terrors dar. Carsten Schreiber gibt nach jahrzehntelangen Spekulationen erstmals Auskunft über Aufgaben, Funktion und Umfang dieses geheimdienstlichen Netzwerks und über die Sozialstruktur der V-Männer. …”

“…The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as terrorism, climate warming, inequality, populism, and financial crises. …”

“…The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, also referred as 9/11, was an iconic event in US history that altered the global and political response to terrorism. The attacks, which involved two planes hitting the twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, resulted in the collapse of the buildings and over 2800 deaths of occupants of the buildings, fire, police and other responders and persons on the street in the vicinity of the collapsing buildings. …”

“…The paper highlights quite different responses to security problems as varied as insurgency, terrorism, organised crime and riots. This analysis offers important lessons. …”

“…The premise of this volume is that business regulations are expected to grow in the near future as a consequence of the emergence of a “(world) risk society.” Risks related to terrorism, climate change, and financial crises, for example, will penetrate all conditions of life. …”

“…O'Neill takes them as predictive of the agency in particular of the United States--the "Center"--in bringing about in the world the more general chaos we are now observing (relative to various refugee and migrant crises, the emergence of sophisticated and even postmodern forms of militant and cyber terrorism, banking and other monetary crises, environmental catastrophes under the aegis of climate change, the defunding of public higher education, the persistence of virulent forms of racism and other types of intolerance, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, the marginalisation and even outright elimination of human labor forces, etc.). …”

“…In particular, as part of an original gendered analysis of the war on terror, Banwell unpacks women's involvement in sexual violence against male prisoners at Abu Ghraib. …”

“…The project then mixes chronological narrative with analysis and historiography as it takes the reader through a series of case studies, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the Global War of Terror. The purpose throughout is not merely to create a list of so-called "great moments" in race and gender, but to create a meta-landscape in which readers can learn to identify for themselves the disjunctures, flaws, and critical synergies in the traditional memory and history of a largely monochrome and male-exclusive military experience. …”

“…'Doomstone Citadel' is set during World War II, you’ll step into the boots of a skilled allied Commando on a daring mission to infiltrate the infamous Doomstone Citadel and dismantle the terror war machine from within. We will start with an introduction to the VRTK framework and the advantages of using it over alternate SDKs for VR Development. …”

“…Amidst the chaos, a virulently militant group declared an Islamic State, seizing vast territories and inspiring terrorism across the globe. What happened? The New Arab Wars is a profound illumination of the causes of this nightmare. …”

“…Marton follows the astonishing lives of four history-changing scientists, all just one step ahead of Hitler's terror state, who helped usher in the nuclear age and the computer (Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, and Eugene Wigner); two major movie myth-makers (Michael Curtiz, who directed Casablanca, and Alexander Korda, who produced The Third Man); two immortal photographers (Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz); and one seminal writer (Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon)…”
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“…Su rastro y sus restos se acumulan, se desvanecen, descomponen y se instalan en la topografía del paisaje, haciendo siempre presentes a los ausentes, como vida y muerte, belleza y terror, luz hostil y noches centelleantes de estrellas y promesas, todos existiendo unos junto a otros…”
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“…However in recent years there has been a recognition that their shared concerns in areas as diverse as the environment, transnational crime and terrorism, human rights and conflict resolution outweigh their disciplinary and methodological divergences. …”

“…Over the course of its history, the nation has witnessed the murders of beloved public figures; massacres in workplaces and schools; and epidemics of gun violence that terrorize neighborhoods and claim tens of thousands of lives. …”
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“…Der Band versammelt erstmals seine wichtigsten politischen Artikel aus inzwischen fast drei Jahrzehnten, vom Terror im Nahen Osten über die Wagenburgmentalität Europas bis hin zur langen Kanzlerschaft Angela Merkels. …”