The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Author/Contributor(s):	Masco, Joseph
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	12/01/2014
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The anthropologist Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations.