Assessing the War on Terror: Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367667900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 308 str.

Charles Webel; Mark Tomass

Opis

This book presents the reader with articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the war on terror as it has evolved over the past decade and a half since 9/11.

Spis treści

Introduction, Charles Webel 

Section I: Framing and Assessing the War on Terror

Section Overview, Mark Tomass

1. The Evil Scourge of Terrorism, Noam Chomsky

2. Realizing Hegemony? Symbolic Terrorism and the Roots of Conflict, Oliver P. Richmond

3.  Trauma and the City: The Psychology of America’s Terrorism Trauma, Sarton Weinraub

Section II: Hearing from the Victims of Terror-Inflicted Regions

Section Overview, Mark Tomass

4. The Syrian Tragedy: The Role of the West, A Government Insider’s Account, Buthaina Shaaban

5. Iraq: A Victim of Terror and the War on Terror, Anwar Said al-Haidari

6. The Ideological Origins of ISIS: Fighting Terror with Facts and Common Sense, Mark Tomass

7. Winning the Hearts and Minds of the Pukhtuns of Afghanistan and Northwest Pakistan with Altruism, Public Health and Development, Not by Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Sher M. Khan

Section III: Calculating the Costs of the War on Terror

Section Overview, Mark Tomass

8. The Global War on Terrorism: How Ethical and Effective?, Charles Webel and John Arnaldi

9. Led Astray: Legal and Moral Blowback from The Global War on Terror, William Cohn

10. Terror from Above and Within: The Hidden Cultural and Political Costs of Lethal Drones, Laurie Calhoun 

Section IV: Analyzing, Negotiating with, and Ending Terror Groups

Section Overview, Mark Tomass

11. A Dialogue on Why Western Youth are Attracted to ISIS, Scott Atran and Mark Tomass

12. Negotiating with the Taliban, Johan Galtung

13. A Tale of Two CTs: A Ground-level Counterinsurgency Perspective on Belgian Counter-Terrorism Measures, Casey Douglas Carr

14. The War on Terrorism What Does it Mean to Win?, Audrey Kurth Cronin 

Conclusion, Charles Webel

O autorze

Charles Webel is the Delp-Wilkinson Chair and Professor of Peace Studies at Chapman University, USA, and Professor of International Economic Relations at the University of New York in Prague, Czech Republic. He is author/editor of eights books, including Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition (2007) and Peace and Conflict Studies, 3^rd edition (with D. Barash, 2014).

Mark Tomass is an economist and instructor at Harvard University, USA, and author of The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict: The Remaking of the Fertile Crescent (2016).

Contributors: Noam Chomsky, Oliver Richmond, Ioannis Tellidis, Sarton Weinraub, Buthaina Shaaban, Anwar Said al-Haidari, Sher M. Khan, John Arnaldi, William Cohn, Laurie Calhoun, Scott Atran, Johan Galtung, Casey Douglas Carr and Audrey Kurth Cronin.