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The World After 9/11

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In the article by Galtung, it looks at the world after 9/11. The author discusses three discourses which are terrorism, state terrorism, and retaliation. The first one which is terrorist discourse is more inspired by fundamentalist Islam, the shahadah and the sword. The second is more of a fundamentalist U.S. version. The third looks at more why 9/11 happen as parts of a retaliation cycle and to use that revenge for other purposes. There is a global clash of fundamentalism and in a way it is about violence. In the article by Bryant, it looks at how the author believes that the revisionist position is both empirically suspect and analytically incoherent and he is basically saying that it is wrong. Revisionists believe that the world was equal until the industrial movement. This is not right and if a person looks back at history they can see how differently different parts of the world was treated from other parts that were more developed. The article also looks at political arrangement and how Europe in a way went away from the rest of the world. In the article by Pillai and Gupta, it looks at human capital and life expectancy. It looks at the perspective on the shaping of the current geo-political structures and the article makes a response about a social development perspective to account for the current positions various nations occupy in the geo-political order of power. The article looks at how others are rising and the article also looks at the individual

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