Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards

Marouf Hasian Jr. is professor of communication at the University of Utah and author of Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016).

• AcknowledgmentsChapter One — Introduction: Kafka, and the Chaotic Rhetorical Cultures of Mercenaries andPrivate Military CompaniesChapter Two — Operation Iraq Freedom and the Rise of Blackwater, Inc.Chapter Three — Creative Destruction, Iraqi Sentiments, and Early Prosecutorial Narratives of“What Happened” at Nisour Square, 2007-2008Chapter Four — The Demise of Blackwater and the Tales of Primate Military Corporate“Accountability,” 2009-2013Chapter Five — The 2014 Criminal Trials of Paul Slough, Nicholas Slatten, and the OtherBlackwater DefendantsChapter Six — Remembrances of Blackwater and the Advent of the “New Humanitarian”Private ContractorsBibliographyAbout the Author