war on terrorism, 2001-2009

A debate-style reader that examines current controversies in world politics, with writings representing the views of political scientists, lawmakers, and political commentators, with an overview of each debate's opposing sides and its impact on world politics.

Chronicles the attempts by the Bush administration to extend the bounds of presidential authority while limiting official culpability, maintaining that they have not provided a complete explanation for their detention policy.

A collection of sixty-four documents containing federal statutes, congressional hearings, floor debates, press conferences, interviews, and essays that examine the controversy over the post-September 11, 2001 Patriot Act.

Examines press freedom in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, and considers whether the Bush administration attempted to pressure or control media reporting in the U.S. and the effects of such restrictions on press freedom around the world.

Bitter Ash, a special operations unit, is secretly deployed into enemy territory to eliminate the potential successors to Osama bin Laden's leadership in al Qaeda, but discover a larger plot that puts the United States in jeopardy.

Having served as Great Britain's longest-enduring prime minister, Adam Lang accepts a large cash advance to write a tell-all memoir of his life and controversial political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.

Former British prime minister Adam Lang (clearly modelled on Tony Blair) is up against a firm deadline to submit his memoirs to his publisher, and the project is dangerously derailed when his aide and collaborator, Michael McAra, perishes in a ferry accident off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. To salvage the book, a professional ghostwriter is hired to whip the manuscript into shape, but the unnamed writer soon finds that separating truth from fiction in Lang's recollections a challenge. The stakes rise when Lang is accused of war crimes for authorizing the abduction of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, who then ended up in the CIA's merciless hands. As the new writer probes deeper, he uncovers evidence that his predecessor's death may have been a homicide.

Presents a collection of fifteen essays that examine the issues related to the management, leadership, and accountability of United States national security, from peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia to the war against terrorism.