Abstract:
This paper seeks to explore the grand narratives that have been
produced in the post 9/11 era in Europe by looking at the March 11, 2004 attacks
in Madrid, and the July 7, 2005 attacks in London. The paper will posit that the
random nature of the Madrid and London attacks, and the apparent lack of
meaning behind the ‘message’ of these attacks, destabilises a fundamental and
mythological narrative of the European project: that the ‘new Europe’ is somehow
beyond politics and has entered into a Kantian ‘perpetual peace’.
