American Security and the Global War on Terror

ISBN-13: 9780367438319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 152 str.

Edwin Daniel Jacob

Opis

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today’s geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 - Meditations on the Abyss: America’s Imperial Illusions 　 Chapter 2 - Past Prologue: Understanding Security in an Age of Terror I. The Vagaries of Power: Cold War Theory, War on Terror Practice II. Interpreting Sovereignty: Evolution of an Idea III. Situating Security: Considerations of a Concept 　 Chapter 3 - A Tragedy of Errors: Neo-conservatism, 9/11, and Iraq I. Cold Warriors without a War: Neo-conservatism in the Interregnum II. Selling Security: Developing a Counter-Terror Culture III. New Spheres, Old Problems: American Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf 　 Chapter 4 - Not Fade Away: Revolving Actors and Evolving Tactics Under Obama I. The Neo-liberal Imperative: On the Moral Cognition of Modern Warfare II. Fight by Flight: Judging the Drone III. A Tale of Two (Failed) States: Libya, Syria, and the Ethics of Intervention 　 Chapter 5 - Confronting the Abyss: Towards a Twenty-First-Century American Security

O autorze

Dr. Edwin Daniel Jacob is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Dr. Jacob has published various works on security in popular and scholastic forms. His unique collection, Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century was published in 2017.