Tag: 9/11

I hadn’t the slightest idea my life would change after 9/11 (Shadi Hamid, Brookings)

I hadn’t the slightest idea that my life would change. It was two weeks into my freshman year of college. I was living away...

9/11 and Iraq: The making of a tragedy (Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

Twenty years after the al-Qaida attack on September 11, 2001, the United States is still involved in a war in Iraq that it started....

9/11 transformed US-Mexico relations (Arturo Sarukhan, Brookings)

The 20th anniversary of al-Qaida’s terrorist strikes against the United States has been marked by a tsunami of ink over what these two decades...

Hoover Fellows Reflect on 20th Anniversary of the Terror Attacks of September 11 (Hoover Institution)

A cohort of Hoover fellows, all of whom served in prominent leadership and military positions in the administration of George W. Bush, reflected on their...

The Long Shadow of 9/11 on Decisions to Use Lethal Force. Since 9/11 the United States has assumed broad authority to lethally target people...

September 11th, 2001 changed how the United States conceptualized and conducted counterterrorism for a generation. In the aftermath of the attacks, President George W....

9/11-War on Terror. The many consequences of a clear blue day on 11 September, 2001 (Lydia Khalil, The Interpreter)

The 9/11 attacks – four separate coordinated strikes by al-Qaeda using passenger planes as weapons of mass destruction – were the deadliest and most...

9/11-Arms Control. Control A New Paradigm for Terrorism: September 11 and Strategic Trade Controls to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Richard...

I walked six miles from downtown Washington to home as the buses had stopped running on that beautiful fall weather day, with almost no...

9/11-China. China’s Rise Post-9/11 (Yun Sun, Stimson Center)

The 9/11 attacks in 2001 are perhaps the most consequential events of the post-Cold War era that, for the time being, changed the trajectory...

9/11-War on Terror-Turkey. The War on Terror Was Never Turkey’s Fight (Nathaniel Handy, Fair Observer)

Do you know where you were on August 14, 2001? Perhaps not, since it isn’t a defining day in world history in quite the...

9/11-USA-Enduring Freedom-War on Terror. Is Operation Enduring Freedom Doomed to Endure Forever? (S. Suresh, Fair Observer)

Those were heady days in the US stock market. I would wake up by 5 am and watch CNBC before the stock market opened...

9/11-War on Terror. How 9/11 and the War on Terror Shaped the World (Atul Singh & Anna Pivovarchuk, Fair Observer)

On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and launched suicide attacks on iconic symbols of...

9/11-Al Qaeda-ISIS. Al-Qaeda and ISIS twenty years after 9/11 (Crisis Group)

On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a new episode of Hold Your Fire! looks at the shadow cast by the “global war on...

9/11-Africa. Escaping 9/11’s Long Shadow (Crisis Group)

Since mid-July, when the Taliban march toward the Afghan capital accelerated at an astonishing pace, the Somalia-based jihadist group Al-Shabaab’s media channels have covered little...

9/11/Russia. Russia and 9/11: Roads not taken (James Nixey, Chatham House)

On 12 September 2001, Russian president Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush to express his condolences – and to offer him...

9/11. Out of Africa: Exploring the roots of the 9/11 attacks (Alex Vines OBE, Chatham House)

Osama Bin-Laden’s masterminding of the US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998 saw more than 200 people killed –...

9/11/Arms Control. The dangerous impact of 9/11 on arms control measures (Patricia Lewis, Chatham House)

In the weeks following the 9/11 attacks, analysts said everything was going to change and they were proved right. Just as the decades following...