Stephanie Savell is co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. An anthropologist, she conducts research on security and activism in the US and in Brazil. She co-authored The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life.
In September 2001, the administration of US president George W Bush launched the “Global War on Terror.” Though “global” has long since been dropped from...Comment