I wrote this book, mainly and simply, because atrocities in Syria have been too terrible to ignore. My early work focused on 9/11 and the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Jack Holland
Jack Holland is Associate Professor in International Security at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Selling the War on Terror: Foreign Policy Discourses after 9/11 (Routledge, 2012), Fictional Television and American Politics: From 9/11 to Donald Trump (Manchester University Press, 2019), Selling War and Peace: Syria and the Anglosphere (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-author of Security: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave, 2014). He is also co-editor of Obama’s Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror (Routledge, 2013) and The Obama Doctrine: A Legacy of Continuity in Foreign Policy? (Routledge, 2016). Alongside these books, he has published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology and Review of International Studies. At the University of Leeds, he is Director of the Centre for Global Security Challenges.