Abstract

VIANA, Vítor. 9/11 strategic consequences. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2011, n.31, pp.25-31. ISSN 1645-9199.

This article focuses on the strategic consequences of the terrorist events of 9/11, which include the new dimension of the transnational terrorism and its feature as a global threat; the end of US’s "saintliness"; the increasing importance of the asymmetric conflicts; the changing of the dissuasion concept; the importance of the global terrorism fight; the inversion of the north American global strategy; the changing in the Middle East balance and the consequences of the Afghanistan war.

Keywords : 9/11; terrorism; American foreign policy; Middle East.

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