Contagion

Bruce Magnusson is associate professor of politics and the director of global studies and Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French and general studies, both at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Contributors Alberto S. Galindo, assistant professor of Spanish, Whitman College Andrew Lakoff, associate professor of anthropology, communications, and sociology at the University of Southern California Christian Moraru, professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations Priscilla Wald, professor of English and women's studies at Duke University Geoffrey Whitehall, associate professor of political science at Acadia University, Nova Scotia Mona Yacoubian, special adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of Peace

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Hydra of ContagionBruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua 1 Rethinking the War on Terror New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 WorldPaul B. Stares and Mona Yacoubian 2 Epidemic IntelligenceToward a Genealogy of Global Health SecurityAndrew Lakoff 3 The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu AffectGeoffrey Whitehall 4 Bio TerrorHybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Our MonstersPriscilla Wald 5 Contagion, Contamination, and Don DeLillo’sPost–Cold War World-SystemSteps toward a Haptical Theory of CultureChristian Moraru 6 Contagion of Intellectual Traditions in Post-9/11 NovelsAlberto S. Galindo Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index