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CFP: US Imperialism after September 11 (5/5/03; book)

Maisonneuve Press seeks contributions for a forthcoming volume,
tentatively 
titled Enduring Freedom or Enduring War. Contributions that focus on the
new 
global conditions declared by the Bush administration in the aftermath
of the 
destruction of the World Trade Center are welcome. We aim to place the 
current war in the context of long-standing US military and foreign
policies.
We seek well-researched, authoritative work that avoids "presentism" and 
places recent policy in a deeper historical and analytic perspective.
Essays 
should meet strict standards of scholarly research, while being written
in a 
clear, lively style for a wide readership. The most suitable papers will 
address one of the themes below: 

1. Oil interests. For several years, in think tanks like RAND, SAIS,
CSIS, 
PNAC, etc. there's been an increasing demand that the US get its
military 
into Central Asia and elsewhere to be sure that US/European oil
companies 
dominate the development of oil fields and pipelines. Congress passed
the 
Silk Road Act in 1999 and authorized military installations in Central
Asia. 
2. Backgrounds to Al Queda and Osama bin Laden.
3. History of US involvement with Pakistani Intelligence, bin Laden, 
mujahadeen, and other non-conventional armies in the various wars of the
last 
decade.
4. A close reading of the policies of Operation Enduring Freedom. A look
at 
all the documents, speeches, and actions that go under this rubric. 
5. Case Histories - Iraq, N. Korea, Afghanistan, Philippines, and etc.
Any 
one country provides a good close look at how all of this "new
imperialism" 
works out. 
6. Looking at the Future. Enduring Freedom will mean an increasingly 
militarized society in the US. It will begin to look like the dystopia 
depicted in Orwell's 1984. The Patriot Acts I and II and the blending of
the 
CIA and FBI and the Homeland Security Department will all transform
American 
society. What will be some of the implications of these changes?  
We seek to re-contextualize the discussion of Bush's War on Terrorism.
Get it 
off of the "innocent America, victim of a horrible and surprise attack"
and 
get the focus back on the steady progress of US foreign policy. This war
is 
not taking the US away from its long held plans but only taking us
deeper 
into them.
Paper proposals (or complete essays) should be sent no later than May 5,
2003 
either by mail or email attachment (Word document) to:
Carlmirra@aol.com
Carl Mirra
SUNY College at Old Westbury
Department of American Studies
Old Westbury, NY 11568