Twenty years on, the global war on terror (WOT) is more than military operations or police and surveillance practices; it is a global ideological context and sociopolitical enterprise. In these twenty years, the WOT has encompassed many social spheres, generated discourses, and produced practices in and through sites that include state and police realms, but also social spheres, and it has penetrated people's everyday lives. All in all, the WOT is a broad constellation of a wide variety of actors and sites where narratives, discourses, interpretations, and practices are produced, reproduced, and but also contested. Nicole Nguyen's Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures reminds us just of the many places where the WOT is fought, scrutinizing court trials and discussing the role the US judicial system has in the global WOT.

Terrorism on Trial extensively examines the role courts, trials, and proceedings, and the social actors involved in these processes have in the production, reification, and contestation of the WOT and narratives of Muslims as incipient terrorists (p. 6). All social agents and legal and judicial actors are embedded in political narratives and interpretations of the world, and they, too, reproduce racialized, ethnic, cultural, and US imperial understandings of political violence and their actors