Forget September 11

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 513-528

  Zehfuss, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICS; TERRORISM;

GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22144467197     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143659032000084447     Document Type: Article

References (104)

1. See www.televisionarchive.org and www.nytimes.com.
2. President Bush remarks that 'Americans have known wars - but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941'. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, 20 September 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html.
3. Ibid
4. and Noam Chomsky, 9-11, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001, p 11ff.
5. Quoted in 'Was einem Künstler, der sich maβlos überschätzt, zum Terrorangriff auf New York einfällt', Die Tageszeitung, 19 September 2001. Note that Stockhausen took back his comment as soon as he became aware of what he had said.
6. Konstantin von Hammerstein & Frank Hornig, 'Die Echtzeit-Katastrophe', Der Spiegel, 15 September 2001, p 126.
7. Quoted in Ibid.
8. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, 20 September 2001.
9. See, for example, Michael Byers, 'US doesn't have the right to decide who is or isn't a PoW', Guardian, 14 January 2002
10. and Heribert Prantl, Verdächtig. Der starke Staat und die Politik der inneren Unsicherheit, Hamburg: Europa Verlag, 2002, p 21. On the issue of the prisoners' rights,
11. see also Reinhard Müller, 'Auch "Freischärler" haben Rechte', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 22 January 2002, p 7.
12. See, for example, Prantl, Verdächtig
13. Wolfgang Koydl, 'Von Bin Laden zu Orwell', Süddeutsche Zeitung, 4 September 2002
14. and Andrian Kreye, 'Die Kaninchen vor der terroristischen Schlange', FAZ, 9-10 February 2002, p 19.
15. Remarks by the President at 'The World Will Always Remember', September 11 Ceremony, 11 December 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/ releases/2001/12/200111211-html.
16. Ibid.
17. Remarks by the President at the Department of Defense Service of Remembrance, 11 October 2001 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/ 2001/10/print/2001101.html.
18. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, 20 September 2001.
19. See, for example, Remarks by the President on the USS Enterprise on Pearl Harbor Day, 7 December 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/ releases/2001/12/20011207.html.
20. Presidential Address to the Nation, 7 October 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011007-8.html.
21. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, 20 September 2001.
22. Michele Zanini, interviewed by Laura Miller, 'A new breed of terrorism', 11 September 2001, http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/09/11/zanini/ print.html.
23. Statement by the President in His Address to the Nation, 11 September 2001, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html.
24. See, for example, Mark Neocleous, 'Against security', Radical Philosophy, 100, 2000, pp 7-15.
25. Jenny Edkins, 'Forget trauma?', International Relations, 16 (2), 2002, p244.
26. Prantl Verdächtig, p 18.
27. Note also Edkins' objection to the phrase, 'Forget trauma?', p 252.
28. 'Glossary', at http://www.atomicarchive.com/Glossary/Glossary4.shtml.
29. See Hans J Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace, New York: Knopf, 1973, pp 3-5.
30. Georg Bönisch et al, 'Angriff auf den Staat im Staate', Der Spiegel, 24 September 2001, p 31.
31. Jürgen Hogrefe et al, 'Die neue Allianz', Der Spiegel, 8 October 2001, p 24.
32. Georg Mascolo et al, 'Scharfes Tempo', Der Spiegel, 8 October 2001, p 26.
33. See also Prantl, Verdächtig, pp 52-54.
34. Andreas Ulrich, 'Die Grenzen der Freiheit', Der Spiegel, 15 October 2001, p 61.
35. 'Das ist Gespensterseherei', interview with Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily, Der Spiegel, 24 September 2001, p 34.
36. Mascolo et al, 'Scharfes Tempo', p 27.
37. For the full draft and justification of the Law for the Purpose of Fighting International Terrorism, see Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache, 14/386, 8 November 2001.
38. Prantl, Verdächtig, p 57.
39. See the final debate about the law in parliament, Deutscher Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll, 14/209, 14 December 2001, pp 20747-20763.
40. See also Johannes Leithäuser, 'Ob der "elektronische Fingerabdruck" in den Paβ kommt, ist ungewiβ', FAZ, 5 January 2002, p 4.
41. Witness the final debate about the law in parliament, Deutscher Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll, 14/209.
42. See also the summary of criticism of the new laws by experts in Prantl, Verdächtig, pp 64-66.
43. Andreas Wehr, 'Terrorismusbekämpfung in Europa', Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 7, 2002, p 863.
44. Deutscher Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll, 14/209, p 20752.
45. Quoted in Georg Bönisch et al, 'Druck aus dem Kessel', Der Spiegel, 1 October 2002, p 26.
46. Prantl, Verdächtig, pp 9-11.
47. See also Erhard Denninger, 'Freiheit durch Sicherheit? Anmerkungen zum Terrorismusbekämpfungsgesetz', Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, B 10-11, 2002, pp 22-24.
48. Prantl, Verdächtig, p 11.
49. Ibid, p 19.
50. Quoted in Petra Bornhöfte et al, 'Wir sind eine Welt', Der Spiegel, 15 September 2001, p 31.
51. Simon Schama, 'The dead and the guilty', Guardian, 11 September 2002, p 1.
52. Edkins, 'Forget trauma?, p 250.
53. 'New York hopes for a "normal" Monday', CNN.com, 16 September 2001. http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/rec.newyork.monday/.
54. Remarks by the President on the USS Enterprise.
55. In Germany, for example, experts have voiced concern over the constitutionality of the anti-terror laws. See Prantl, Verdächtig, pp 64-66.
56. For an informative evaluation of the permissibility of responses in terms of international law, see Andreas von Arnaul & Ulf Marzik, 'Das Völkerrecht und der internationale Terror: Welche Gegenreaktion erlauben allgemeines Völkerrecht, NATO-Vertrag und UN-Charta?', in Felicitas von Aretin & Bernd Wannenmacher (eds), Weltlage. Der 11. September, die Politik und die Kulturen, Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2002, pp 175-193.
57. On the effects on international law of the USA's actions, see Michael Byers, 'Terror and the future of international law', in Ken Booth & Tim Dunne (eds), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, pp 118-127
58. and Michael Byers, 'Terrorism, the use of force and international law after September 11', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 51, 2002, pp 401-414.
59. For a good discussion of this problem as part of a novel, see Martin Walser, Ein springender Brunnen, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2000, part 1, ch 1.
60. Ibid, p 9.
61. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People.
62. Statement by the President in His Address to the Nation.
63. Steve Smith, 'Unanswered questions', in Booth & Dunne, Worlds in Collision, p 51.
64. Amber Amundson, 'Our grief is not a cry for war', 7-8 December 2001, at http://www.afsc.org/nero/pesp/amundson.htm.
65. Chomsky, 9-11, pp 11-12.
66. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People.
67. See Statement by NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson, 2 October 2001, at http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2001/s011002a.htm.
68. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People.
69. This distinction is noted by John MacArthur, 'Das ist Propaganda', Der Spiegel, 8 October 2001, p 74.
70. Statement by the President in His Address to the Nation.
71. James Der Derian, 'In terrorem: Before and after 9/11, in Booth & Dunne (eds), Worlds in Collision, p 102 (italics in original).
72. Ibid.
73. John le Carré, 'Dieser Krieg ist längst verloren', FAZ, 17 October 2001, p 49.
74. See also Chomsky, 9-11, pp 82-84.
75. Jacques Derrida, The Other Heading. Reflections on Today's Europe, trans Pascale-Anne Brault & Michael B Naas, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp 9-10, emphasis in the original.
76. Presidential Address to the Nation.
77. Friedrich Nietzsche, Zur Genealogie der Moral, Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1991, p 38.
78. Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung oder wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert, Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1985, pp 39-40.
79. Jonathan Culler, On Deconstruction. Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, London: Routledge, 1983, pp 86-87.
80. Jenny Edkins, 'The absence of meaning: Trauma and the events of 11 September', at http://watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/91l/ edkins_trauma.html.
81. Statement by the President in His Address to the Nation.
82. See David Campbell, 'Time is broken: The return of the past in the response to September 11, Theory & Event, 5 (4), 2002, section 4.
83. See also Chomsky, 9-11, p 77.
84. Maja Zehfuss, Constructivism in International Relations. The Politics of Reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, esp ch 3.
85. Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death, trans David Wills, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995, p 61.
86. Ibid, p 68.
87. Ibid, p 70.
88. Deutscher Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll, 19/209.
89. 'Civilian catastrophe as US bombs Afghan wedding', Guardian Unlimited, 1 July 2002.
90. See also 'Wedding blunder "happened in Taliban target area"', Guardian Unlimited, 4 July 2002.
91. Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, London: Routledge, 2001, p 32.
92. Ibid, p 32.
93. Ibid, p 49.
94. Ibid, p 56.
95. Ryan Amundson, 'Our grief is not a cry for war', 7-8 December 2001, at http://www.afsc.org/nero/pesp/amundson.htm.
96. See also Duncan Campbell, 'Relatives protest at war plans', Guardian, 12 September 2002, p 6.
97. Ryan Amundson, 'Our grief is not a cry for war'.
98. Amber Amundson, 'A widow's plea for non-violence', Chicago Tribune, 25 September 2001.
99. Amber Amundson, 'Our grief is not a cry for war'. The spelling of the name varies.
100. For a group founded by family members of victims of 11 September who promote 'open dialogue on alternatives to war', see http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/mission.html.
101. Schama, 'The dead and the guilty', p 2.
102. Campbell, 'Relatives protest at war plans'.
103. Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People.
104. The President of the EU Commission, Romano Prodi, spoke of 'a watershed in the political relations of the world. Nothing will be as it has been hitherto.' Quoted in Carolin Emcke et al, 'Wir werden zurükschlagen'. Der Spiegel, 15 September 2001, p 21.