© 2002 Editorial Board of Antipode. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA Change and Continuity in German Landscapes of Fear and Imperialism after September 11th: “Nothing Remains” = “More of the Same”? Bernd Belina Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; bbelina@uni-bremen.de Uli Best Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK; u.best@plymouth.ac.uk and Anke Strüver Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; a.struver@nsm.kun.nl After 9/11, there was a general feeling that “from this day on, nothing will remain the same”. Geopolitical projects, cultural life, and political constellations in North America and Europe seemed to have come to a confused halt, and there seemed a distinct need for reorientation. In this intervention, we would like to argue that the attacks of 9/11 actually resulted, not in a reversal, but in an acceleration of trends that had prevailed during the previous couple of years—what we will refer to as “more of the same”. Although we believe that this holds true most importantly for the US, today’s self-declared world-sheriff, we will focus on one of its deputies in the attempt to police the planet: Germany. We shall concentrate on the geographies of xenophobia, militarism and law and order and will conclude by discussing the possibility of a “left” and “geographical” position on the attacks. We assume this is especially important, as the first reactions of official German geography were neither. These included a statement on the homepage of the Geographentag (the biannual congress of German-speaking