ABSTRACT
The horrors of terrorism were brought home to Americans on September 11, 2001, when hijacked airliners were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Although terrorism and the “war on terror” dominated political discourse in the United States and American foreign policy after that day, the shock and fear of terrorism had become familiar to people in many parts of the world long before 2001.
