Contents: The concept of the parapolitical, Eric Wilson; State-corporate globalization and the rise and demise of the new deal world order, Tom Reifer; Capitalism, covert action and state terrorism: toward a political economy of the dual state, Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed; ’America is addicted to oil’: US secret warfare and dwindling oil reserves in the context of peak oil and 9/11, Daniele Ganser; Researching parapolitics: replication, qualitative research, and social science methodology, David N. Gibbs; The unusual suspects: Africa, parapolitics, and the national security state complex, Enrico Carisch; State hierarchy and governance: of shadows or equivalence in regulating global crisis, Mark Findlay; Dual state: the case of Sweden, Ola Tunander; Canadian stalking horse: ’a parallel power’, David MacGregor; A study in gray: the Affaire Moro and notes for a re-interpretation of the Cold War and the nature of terrorism, Guido Giacomo Preparata; Schmitt, Ergenekon and the neocons, Len Bracken; The spectacle and the partisan, Jeff Kinkle; Targeting journalists and media in the new world order, Stig A. Nohrstedt and Rune Ottosen; Afterword: dual Schmitt, deep Schmitt, William A. Rasch; Index.