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conclusions 253of its kind in Europe, established in 1994, which also offers an MLitt inTerrorism Studies (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/∼wwwir/research/cstpv/ – lastaccessed 17 February 2008). Another example is the Infopeace project atthe Watson Institute at Brown, supported by a Ford Foundation grant,which started in 1999, but grew after 9/11 as it became devoted to criticalengagements with the GWoT through a series of conferences, films, bloggingand an expansive website in addition to more traditional academicforms of dissemination (www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/index2.cfm – last accessed 17 February 2008). This project has been continuedin the Global Media Project that deals with the links between conflictand media, not least the terrorist use thereof. In addition to theFord Foundation, other foundations active, particularly in supportingcritical research, were the Social Science Research Council (Latham,2003) and in the UK the Economic and Social Research Council(ESRC). The ESRC has provided support through its initiative on theDomestic Responses to Terrorism and its New Security Challenges Programme.Running from 2003 to 2007, it brought together more than120 researchers, many of them working on questions related to terrorismand the GWoT and it produced a long list of conferences and publications(www.newsecurity.bham.ac.uk/projects/ – last accessed 18 February2008). Another major project that has underpinned critical research andconferences on securitisation, internal/external security, liberalism andsecurity is CHALLENGE, the Changing Landscape of European Libertyand Security, funded by the EU Commission’s 6th Framework Programme(www.prio.no/Research-and-Publications/Project/?oid=63990). Some ofthe institutionalisation effects are harder to quantify, but significantnonetheless: there is no doubt that the number of conference papers,PhD dissertations and courses on terrorism (critical or conventional)have increased. The impact of 9/11 also intersected with a general growthin journal publications where new journals were founded – InternationalPolitical Sociology (2007), Critical Studies on Terrorism (2008) and AsianSecurity (2005) – and others were relaunched (International Relations,2002) or moved to larger publishers (International Politics, 2003; Journalof International Relations and Development, 2004; Millennium, 2008).ConclusionsDid 9/11 change ISS? The answer is both yes and no. There was a lotof continuity, particularly in long-standing debates about great powerpolarity and nuclear weapons, and even the significant changes in thedebates about war were not dominated by the GWoT. Linking back to