Terrorism and disaster : new threats, new ideas

9.11 as disaster: on worst cases, terrorism, and catastrophe (L. Clarke). A civil defense against terror (O. Rodriguez). Empire of fear: imagined community and the September 11 attacks (A. Larabee). Disaster beliefs and institutional interests: recycling disaster myths in the aftermath of 9-11 (K. Tierney). The fox and the hedgehog: myopia about homeland vulnerability in US policies on terrorism (J.K. Mitchell). Terrorism as disaster: selected commonalities and long-term recovery for 9/11 survivors (B. Marshall et al.). Reconsidering convergence and converger legitimacy in response to the World Trade Center disaster (J. Kendra, T. Wachtendorf). Conceptualizing responses to extreme events: the problem of panic and failing gracefully (L. Clarke).