Archive for the ‘terrorism’ tag
Reflections on contemporary International Relations
On "The End of History"
In his article "The End of History," written on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama declares an "unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism" and that the "total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism" spell the "end of history." That is, we have arrived [...]
“Raining blood”: Suicide bombings in Iraq
In the deadliest attack of its kind since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in April 2003, a suicide bomber killed 114 in Baghdad yesterday when he lured civilians to his vehicle with promises of work, then detonated a bomb.
A survivor said that in the midst of the chaos caused by the explosion, it was "raining [...]
Al Qaeda in Argentina?
Much has been written on the relative irrelevance of Latin America to the United States since the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, due to its lack of importance to America’s strategic interests. So whenever something like this article from conservative Argentine daily La Nación catches my eye, on the entry of 26 individuals linked [...]