[Reader-list] Fwd: After Sept 11 website

[Ravikant]

With apologies to those who already have access to this resource. 

ravikant

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Subject: After Sept 11 website
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:31:12 -0500
From: info at ssrc.org
To: ravikant at sarai.net


The Social Science Research Council announces a new website featuring a
 collection of essays called “After September 11: Perspectives from the
 Social Sciences.” Leading social scientists from around the world and across
 the social science disciplines have contributed their expertise to the
 project.  The collection, which can be accessed at
 http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/, aims to move beyond the discourse of Op-Ed
 pieces by bringing theoretical perspectives and empirical knowledge to bear
 on the questions ra sed by September 11.

More than 50 social scientists have committed to write essays for the
 project.  Contributors to the site include Olivier Roy, France’s leading
 expert on political Islam, writing on neo-fundamentalism; Barry Eichengreen,
 a noted economic historian, assessing the impact of September 11 on global
 finance and financial institutions; and leading political scientist Seyla
 Benhabib, addressing how recent terror networks challenge the boundaries of
 democratic states.

The website is intended as a resource for teachers – especially college and
 university instructors, but those at the secondary level as well – who want
 to address unfolding events in their courses from the perspectives of the
 social sciences.  It is can also prove a useful tool for journalists who
 seek a wider set of viewpoints and solid analytical thinking on the issues
 at hand.


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