United States Foreign Policy and the 9/11 Crisis

Year 2001, Issue: 14, 75 - 89, 01.10.2001

Leo J. Mahoney

Abstract

Lots of things have happened since the fateful American morning of September 11, 2001. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to notice the differences; though that’s hardly a dead-end career option these days. Just pick up almost any newspaper and read about the after-effects of 9/11.

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