Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780521712910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 306 str.

Michael J. Mazarr

Opis

Five years into the war on terror, we still don't understand the supposed "enemy." Official analyses of radical Islam remain simplistic and unhelpful for understanding the motivations and mindsets of people still characterized simply as "evildoers who hate freedom." This book offers a new way of understanding this challenge and figuring out what to do about it. It concludes with specific policy suggestions for a new approach to replace the badly-failing current strategy. This book approaches radical Islam by putting it into a comparative context. It makes a big, bold argument about the character of the threat and the nature of world politics in this provocative and wide-ranging examination of radical Islamists.

Recenzje

"The book is grand in its scope and Mazarr is to be commended for taking on the herculean task of trying to make sense of radical Islamism, an immensely complex movement. Of particular value are the insights into the sociopsychological effects of modernization on human beings confronted with such dislocating alien forces.
Perspectives on Politics, Assaf Moghadam, United States Military Academy

Spis treści

1. The argument; 2. Modernization's price; 3. The existentialist diagnosis; 4. Stages in the trajectory of anti-modernism; 5. The anti-modern ideology; 6. The leaders and the recruits; 7. What to do.