This book sets out to reflect on how the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted our perspectives on a whole series of political, economic, social, and cultural processes. Beyond 9/11 raises the question how the intense debates on the 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermaths have come to shape our present moment and frame what lies ahead.

Contents: Bernd Greiner: 9/11 and Its Transatlantic Legacies – Mandana Biegi: Universal Jurisdiction and Torture: The Case of George W. Bush – Henrike Viehrig: The U.S. Public after 9/11: Polarized Views on Foreign Policy? – Sylvia Mayer: «Dwelling in Crisis»: Terrorist and Environmental Risk Scenarios in the Post-9/11 Novel – Greta Olson: Recovering from the Men We Loved to Hate: Barack Obama as a Representative of Post-Post-September 11 White House Masculinity – Tim Krieger: Calculating the Costs of 9/11 – Klaas Staal: Was Osama bin Laden Successful? An Economic Perspective on 9/11 and Beyond – Simone Knewitz: 9/11 and the Literature Industry – Georgiana Banita: Writing Energy Security after 9/11: Oil, Narrative, and Globalization – Gerhard Sauter: 9/11 as a Spiritual Event – Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad/Nazir Harb: The New American Muslim Identity: Defining American Islam over a Decade of Transformation – Christian Kloeckner: On Hallowed Ground: The Sacred Space of Ground Zero and the Consecration of Global Business – Sabine Sielke: Why «9/11 is [not] unique», or: Troping Trauma – Andrew S. Gross: What Chabon Remembers: Terrorism, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Nations without Borders – Patrick Keller: The Surprising Staying Power of U.S. Primacy – Andreas Falke: The Long-Term Foreign Policy Consequences of 9/11: An American Neo-Isolationism? – Birgit Däwes: Haunted Fiction: The Ghosts of Ground Zero – Sascha Pöhlmann: Future-Founding Poetry after 9/11 – Christoph Faulhaber/Christian Kloeckner: 9/11 as «Unbild»: A Conversation – Björn Bosserhoff: Beyond 9/11: A Bibliography.