The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror
Autor Stephen Holmesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 apr 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521875165
ISBN-10: 0521875161
Pagini: 378
Dimensiuni: 163 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0521875161
Pagini: 378
Dimensiuni: 163 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction; Part I. The Terrorist Enigma: 1. Did religious extremism cause 9/11?; Part II: Show of Force: 2. Why military superiority breeds illusions; 3. How the war was lost; 4. Radicals trapped in the past; 5. A self-inflicted wound; Part III. False Templates: 6. Searching for a new enemy after the Cold War; 7. Humanitarianism with teeth; 8. The war of the liberals; 9. The neoconservative intifada; Part IV. Waiving the Rules: 10. Liberalism strangled by war; 11. The unilateralist curse; 12. Battling lawlessness with lawlessness; 13: The infallibility trap; Conclusion.
Recenzii
'Holmes has written a powerful and philosophically erudite survey of what we think we understand about the 9/11 attacks.' Middle East Online
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Descriere
Investigates Washington's fatal misreading of 'the enemy' after 9/11 and its consequences.