UNDERSTANDING SEPTEMBER 11

A domestic companion text to SSRC's international analysis, this volume comprises 24 essays by historians, sociologists and political scientists—nearly all American professors—tackling Islamic radicalism, terrorism and the politics of the new world order in the thoughtful, careful prose of the academy. Like a college course on September 11 slipped between two paper covers, this addition to the current dialogue, edited by SSRC president Calhoun and colleagues Price and Timmer, provides serious study of the "divides in perspectives," the challenges posed to liberal democracies and the "increasing international dominance of Western culture." (Sept. 11)