Confounding Powers: Anarchy and International Society from the Assassins to Al Qaeda

ISBN-13: 9781107521605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

William J. Brenner

Opis

A comparative historical examination of the international systemic and societal origins and effects of Al Qaeda and similar historical actors.

Recenzje

'In this study of actors that deviate from the structural and behavioural norms of global society, including the Assassins, the Mongols, the Barbary powers and al-Qaeda, the author looks at how such actors emerge and their way their behaviour serves in turn to shape the system they have breached.' Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. International society and the logics of anarchy; 2. Confusion in the hearts of men: the Nizari Ismailis and the Assassin legends; 3. 'A furore Tartarorum libera nos': the Mongol eruption and aftermath; 4. Out of the shadow of God: power and piracy along the Barbary Coast; 5. In the shadow of the spears: Al Qaeda's clash with civilization; Conclusion.