Europe, the Middle East, and the Global War on Terror: Critical Reflections

ISBN-13: 9783631634240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 133 str.

Ondrej Beranek

Opis

After 9/11, the (Global) War on Terror started as a military campaign waged against al-Qaeda and other organizations. This campaign was led by the United States though included NATO and a wide assortment of other actors. Originally, it was supposed to last -until every terrorist group of global reach had been found, stopped, and defeated-. However, the campaign has been criticized on various grounds by security experts, politicians, scholars, and others. Eventually, Barack Obama and the new US administration declared the War on Terror over. This book deals with various Western perspectives on the campaign and its impacts on the larger Middle East. It includes chapters written by experts on international relations and the Middle East from various institutions (SOAS, University of London; Metropolitan University Prague; Charles University in Prague; and the Institute of International Relations in Prague), all of which gravitate around delving into the complexities of understanding the Global War on Terror and its conclusion."

Spis treści

Contents: Mitchell A. Belfer: The Geopolitics of Bandits and Bureaucrats: The EU's «War on Terrorism» - Arshin Adib-Moghaddam: Discourse and Violence: The Friend-Enemy Conjunction in Contemporary Iranian-American Relations - Ondrej Ditrych: Afghanistan Now! A Study of the Microcosmos of Global Disorder - Vera Vesela: Afghan Islamists: Do They Need the Global War on Terror? - Pavel Tupek: Sunni-Shi' a Ideological Clashes in the Post-Saddam Iraq and the Role of Salafism.

O autorze

Ondrej Beranek is the head of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Metropolitan University Prague in the Czech Republic. He holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies from Charles University in Prague. From 2005 to 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and from 2007 to 2009 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University.