Introduction /Mary Kaldor -- Letters to Americans / E.P. Thompson -- A piece of the action : the use of US bases in Britain / Malcolm Spaven -- Europe or America : the British political context / Jamie Dettmer -- The European response / Sheena Phillips -- Europe or America : the Italian political context / Carmine Fotia (translated by Mark Thompson) -- View from Washington / Peter Pringle -- Operation El Dorado Canyon : globalising the Cold War / Robin Luckham -- Libya and NATO'S out-of-area role / Ben Lowe -- The Libyan context / Paul Anderson -- The view from the Middle East / Sanna Osseiran -- The Western peace movement and the Middle East / Fiona Weir -- Rethinking counter-terrorism / Richard falk -- The view from Oxford Street / E.P. Thompson.