The War on Terror at Twenty-Five

4 Credits.

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, this seminar invites students to revisit the logics and instruments of the "The War on Terror." Co-taught by an American political scientist and an Afghan anthropologist, the course will be organized in interdisciplinary, dialectical terms that immerse students in a diverse set of sources, methods, and epistemic traditions. We will explore the ideas, events, and discourses that have animated this global warscape by examining scholarly literature, policy documents, and cultural artifacts from a range of geographic sites and political perspectives. And we will situate this war and the various actors and ideologies involved within longer genealogies of empire and insurgency while also engaging with its contemporary incarnations and future possibilities.