I’ve just agreed to be one of the speakers at an event entitled ‘Assessing Ten Years of the War on Terror”, organised by the Tyneside Stop-the-War Coalition and the Newcastle University Place/Space/Politics research cluster.

Of course, one of the themes of my Terror and Territory was to challenge any straight-forward ‘beginning’ to the ‘war on terror’. I’ll probably say a few words about that, and then look at events in the past few years – especially in Georgia, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya. I well know that some, particularly in US and UK administrations, would not want to have these places associated with Iraq and Afghanistan, but I’m interested in the logics of intervention and wider questions of the sovereignty/territory relation, and then the links become more evident.

It will be held in Newcastle on 5 October 2011, 7-9pm.