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  • Formatas: Hardback, 234 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 237x164x22 mm, weight: 476 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Aug-2006
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books
  • ISBN-10: 0739116118
  • ISBN-13: 9780739116111
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 234 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 237x164x22 mm, weight: 476 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Aug-2006
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books
  • ISBN-10: 0739116118
  • ISBN-13: 9780739116111
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In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our timethe West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the context of the 'war on terror.' Ranging from the nature of Islam and the West, to ethics and terror, to the western way of warfare, the volume deals thematically with major issues raised by this conflict in a way that no other single-volume does. Contributors bring to bear arguments on the philosophic, political, religious, ethical, and policy dimensions of the war. As the title of the book suggests, this conflict implicates all of Western civilization, demonstrating that this not merely an 'American' concern.

Recenzijos

Bradley C. S. Watson, a political science professor at St. Vincent's College, has skillfully assembled eleven essays that examine the current struggle with Islamic jihad from a philosophical perspective too often lacking other studies. Correctly viewing jihad as an attack on the West and all it stands for, these essays approach the struggle by trying to define the nature of the enemy and the nature of the West, and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of both. * Claremont Review of Books *

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction A Stomach for this Fight? Terrorism and the Western Way of Life and Thought 1(18)
Bradley C.S. Watson
Part I: Islam and the West
1 A Failure of Imagination: Thinking About Culture, Tradition, and Society After 9/11
19(10)
Akbar Ahmed
2 Understanding Radical Islam
29(12)
Paul Marshall
3 Understanding Jihadist Terrorism After 9/11
41(12)
Barry Cooper
4 Western Identities Versus Islamist Terrorism: Liberals and Christians in the New War
53(20)
James Kurth
5 The Liberal Regime Under Attack
73(26)
Leon Harold Craig
6 The Rise of Toleration in the West and Its Implications for the War on Terror
99(14)
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Part II: Ethics and Terror
7 The Christian Just War Tradition: Neither Niebuhr nor Yoder
113(22)
David D. Corey
8 Ethics and Terror: A Moral Vocabulary for Statesmen
135(22)
Bradley C.S. Watson
9 What Doth It Profit a Man?: Preserving Liberty and the Rule of Law in the "War on Terror"
157
Alberto R. Coll
Part III: The Western Way of Warfare
10 The War on Terrorism and the Western Way of War
181(18)
David Tucker
11 Media Bias in Iraq: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Americans
199(12)
Robert Alt
Index 211(8)
About the Contributors 219


Bradley C. S. Watson is Philip M. McKenna Chair in American And Western Political Thought and Fellow in Politics and Culture at Saint Vincent College.