Cover -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Beyond 9/11: The Trajectory of this Book -- 9/11 as "Climate Change"? -- The Costs and Commodification of 9/11 -- The Spirit of 9/11 -- Looking Beyond Ground Zero -- Works Cited -- 9/11 as "Climate Change"? -- 9/11 and Its Transatlantic Legacies -- Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law -- Historical Precedents -- Structural Legacies -- Limits of Political Self-Correction -- Common Transatlantic Denominators -- Works Cited -- Universal Jurisdiction and Torture: The Case of George W. Bush -- The Bush Case -- The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction -- Consequences for the Rule of Law and the Constitutional State -- The Case of Bush and the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction -- Works Cited and Consulted -- The U.S. Public after 9/11: Polarized Views on Foreign Policy? -- Polarization -- Polarized Views on Foreign Policy? -- The Role of Salience in Polarization -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- "Dwelling in Crisis": Terrorist and Environmental Risk Scenarios in the Post-9/11 Novel -- 'Dwelling in Crisis,' or: Living and Writing in the World Risk Society -- Reading Risk -- Works Cited -- Recovering from the Men We Loved to Hate: Barack Obama as a Representative of Post-Post-September 11 White House Masculinity -- Masculinity in the White House after the 2001 Attacks -- Enter Mr. Codpiece - White House Men as He-Men Warriors -- Enter Obama - The Post-Post-September 11 White House Man -- Contested Masculinities in the 2012 Election -- Postscript -- Works Cited -- The Costs and Commodification of 9/11 -- Calculating the Costs of 9/11 -- The 1993 and 2001Attacks on the World Trade Center Compared -- Psychological Aspects of the 9/11 Attacks -- Economic Costs of the 9/11 Attacks -- Works Cited -- Was Osama bin Laden Successful? An Economic Perspective on 9/11 and Beyond.

The Direct Costs of the 9/11 Attacks -- The Costs of the Wars in Economic Terms -- Osama bin Laden's Objectives -- Was Osama bin Laden Successful? -- Indirect Costs -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- 9/11 and the Literature Industry -- The Specter of 9/11 Discourse: The Commodification of a Tragedy? -- After the Fall: Revisiting the 9/11 Genre -- Commemoration, Commodification, and the 9/11 Novel Industry -- Works Cited -- Writing Energy Security after 9/11: Oil, Narrative, and Globalization -- In Defense of Literature -- American Gargantua, "AVE OUR OIL!": Gary Shteyngart and the Novel of Globalization -- Human Resources: Securing the Home in Franzen's Freedom -- Manhattan Project: Kapitoil's Language Code -- How to Be Alone - and Energy Independent -- Works Cited -- The Spirit of 9/11 -- 9/11 as a Spiritual Event -- How Does God Speak in Times of Crisis? -- Experiencing a Spiritual Event -- A Fundamentalist Approach to Catastrophic Events -- Mourning after 9/11 -- A Decisive Point in History? -- Different Voices of American Christianity -- Encountering Islam -- Competing Expectations? -- Works Cited -- The New American Muslim Identity: Defining American Islam over a Decade of Transformation -- The Muslims of the United States -- Islamophobia: The American Government and Religion Building -- Anti-Muslim Fallout: The Escalationfrom Fear to Hate and Discrimination -- The King Hearings -- Muslim Responses to the Islamophobia Industry -- Youth Activism -- Muslims in Popular Culture -- Educating about Islam -- The Terrorist's Dead -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- On Hallowed Ground: The Sacred Space of Ground Zero and the Consecration of Global Business -- Ground Zero and the Production of Sacred Space -- Reflecting Absence and a New Religion -- The Consecration of Business - and a Final Irony -- Works Cited.

Why "9/11 is [not] unique," or: Troping Trauma -- Remembering 9/11, Romancing Trauma -- Designing Ground Zero, Dressing the Wound -- Repeated Acts of Failed Interpretation, or: "Weapons of Mass Displacement" -- Works Cited -- What Chabon Remembers: Terrorism, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and Nations without Borders -- Works Cited -- Looking Beyond Ground Zero -- The Surprising Staying Power of U.S. Primacy -- Cycles of Decline -- Power in International Affairs -- The International Power Structure -- Continued Primacy -- Works Cited -- The Long-Term Foreign Policy Consequences of 9/11: An American Neo-Isolationism? -- The 9/11 Wars: Costly and Inconclusive -- A Weakened Economic Basis -- Retrenchment and the Future of American Power -- Public Opinion: Just Drifting to Neo-Isolationism? -- Formulating Strategic Post-9/11 Wars Options under Isolationist Pressure -- Works Cited -- Haunted Fiction: The Ghosts of Ground Zero -- Personal Hauntings, Political Allegories -- History and Fiction -- Inter/Textualities -- Coda -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Future-Founding Poetry after 9/11 -- What Is Future-Founding Poetry? -- Whitman's Project of Founding the Future -- Future-Founding Poetry after 9/11 -- Rupture/Continuity -- Hope/Despair -- The Whitmanian 9/11 Poem -- The Terror of Finality -- Works Cited -- 9/11 as "Unbild": A Conversation -- Works Cited -- Beyond 9/11: A Bibliography -- Theory/Philosophy -- Literature, Culture, Media -- Politics, Law, Economy, Society -- Ten Years After: Special Issues -- Contributors.