Get a signed event book!
If you would like a signed event book and will be unable to attend the event, please let us know in the comments
field of your order form when you place your order online. All orders for signed
books must be placed through our website at least 48 hours in advance of the
event. We can not guarantee signed copies - authors are sometimes unable to
sign books - but we will try our hardest to get you one.
|
Harvard Book Store Presents...
Knopf
Price: $35.00
|
PHILIP BOBBITT discusses Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Columbia University professor PHILIP BOBBITT as he brings together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a “war on terror.” In Terror and Consent, Bobbitt declares that the United States is the chief cause of global networked terrorism because of overwhelming American strategic dominance. This is not a matter for blame, he insists, but grounds for reflection on basic issues. We have defined the problem of winning the fight against terror in a way that makes the situation virtually impossible to resolve. We need to change our ideas about terrorism, war, and even victory itself.
Bobbitt argues that the United States has ignored the role of law in devising its strategy, with fateful consequences, and has failed to reform law in light of the changed strategic context. Along the way he introduces new ideas and concepts—Parmenides’ Fallacy, the Connectivity Paradox, the market state, and the function of terror as a by-product of globalization—to help us prepare for what may be a decades-long conflict of which the battle against al Qaeda is only the first instance. “Terror and Consent is the most profound analysis of the wars against terror. Bobbitt puts the threat in its proper historical and theoretical context, explains its relationship to globalization, international law and the domestic constitutional structure and offers tough-minded but humane prescriptions. No one understands the challenge of the terror threat in all its dimensions as well as Philip Bobbitt.” —Jack Goldsmith, Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author of The Terror Presidency
|
CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
Email:
|
| DATE: |
Tuesday, April 22nd |
| TIME: |
7:00 PM |
| LOCATION: |
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
| TICKETS: |
This event is free; no tickets are required |
|
|
Philip Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor
of Federal Jurisprudence and the Director of the Center for National Security
at Columbia University. He is also Senior Fellow at
the Robert Strauss
Center for International Security and
Law at the University
of Texas. He has served
as Associate Counsel to the President, Legal Counsel to the Senate Select
Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair, the Counselor on International Law for the
Department of State, and Director for Intelligence Programs, Senior Director
for Critical Infrastructure, and Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the
National Security Council. He lives in New York,
London, and Austin.
|
|
