Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-215) and index.
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Introduction : the composition of the 'terror war' -- From the 'War on Terror' to 'overseas contingency operations' -- War, terror and the real -- Media and the reproduction of meaning -- Surveillance, authority and linguistic categories -- Film, bureaucracy and the gendered protagonist -- Economic transformation, protest and the state -- Conclusion : democracy and the terror war.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Brute Reality is a fascinating analysis of the attempts by Western countries to justify their increasingly violent foreign-policy agendas and assert the contradictory interests of a transnational elite.
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