Season of Wolves

9/11 changed the world forever. This is the story of the brutality that followed

In the two decades since the attack on the Twin Towers in Manhattan, a new world has taken shape-one defined by endless war, mass surveillance, and militarisation. Season of Wolves is a sweeping and urgent account of how this post-9/11 age of brutality was born, and how it continues to shape our lives today. From the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya and Syria, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou traces the international reverberations of the so-called 'War on Terror' and the political, economic, and cultural transformations it unleashed. He examines the rise of militarised foreign policy, the securitisation of everyday life, the global surge in authoritarianism, and the invasive creep of technology into the most private corners of our lives. Drawing on decades of research and a truly global perspective, Season of Wolves is both a damning indictment of the post-9/11 governance and a crucial guide to understanding how we got here-and what must change.

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Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (1968 - 2024) was a political historian, diplomat and acclaimed public intellectual. His books include a trilogy of the post-9/11 era: Contre-Croisade - Le 11 Septembre et le Retournement du monde, Understanding Al Qaeda and A Theory of ISIS. His writing brought a fresh approach to the studies of extremism, conflict, political violence and peace-building. He was a committed pan-Africanist and pan-Arabist. He worked as Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and served as Mauritania's youngest foreign minister in 2008.

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'Powerful ... The nightmarish beginning of this century has never been so acutely dissected and sensitively presented as it is in this tour-de-force' Ilan Pappé, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

'Mohamedou understood earlier than most that 9**/**11 marked the beginning of a new political and geopolitical age. This is his sweeping account of how war, fear, technology and power reshaped our world' Ghassan Salame, Professor, Paris Institute of Political Studies

'A patient and precise account of the horrors of endless wars and the malice of mass surveillance' Hamid Dabashi, Professor, Columbia University

What political forces shaped the world in the early twenty-first century? What lasting imprint did the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States leave on the global order?

Season of Wolves argues that the post-9/11 era has so far been overwhelmingly understood through the language of terrorism and security. Against these state-spoken and media-echoed narratives, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou reconstructs a deeper history of the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Through a comprehensive recasting of the events of 11 September to the mid-2020s, and an analysis of their global interrelatedness, he traces the emergence of a new political order marked by war, racism, propaganda, authoritarianism and technological oppression. Bringing together political, artistic socio-economic, cultural and ethical perspectives, Season of Wolves offers a panoramic account of the world remade in the aftermath of 9/11 and lays bare the structures and forces that continue to define our times.

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (1968-2024) was Professor and Deputy Director at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He was the author of A Theory of ISIS and Understanding Al Qaeda. He was previously Associate Director of Harvard University's Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris and the University of St Gallen, and Mauritania's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

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Foreword by Davide Rodogno
Note on Authorship
Preface: On the Prowl
Introduction: A Time of Wolves

1. The Age of War
2. Geographoies of Cruelty
3. 9/11 Dramaturgy
4. Theatres of Neo-Authoritarianism
5. Hungry Season
6. The Grid Comes Alive
   Conclusion: Brutal New World
   Acknowledgements
   Notes
   Index