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Assessing the War on Terror

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Assessing the War on Terror

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Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives

Assessing the War on Terror

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Assessing the War on Terror book

Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives
Edited ByCharles Webel, Mark Tomass
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 8 March 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315469171
Pages 326
eBook ISBN 9781315469171
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Webel, C., & Tomass, M. (Eds.). (2017). Assessing the War on Terror: Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315469171

ABSTRACT

This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11.

During the decade and a half of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), numerous books have considered the political, psychosocial, and economic impacts of terrorism. However, there has been little systematic effort to examine the effectiveness of the GWOT in achieving its goals. Furthermore, there is virtually nothing that presents a comparative analysis of the GWOT by the people most directly affected by it—citizens and scholars from conflict zones in the Middle East. There is, therefore, great need for a book that analyzes the strategies, tactics, and outcomes of the GWOT and that also presents facts and ideas that are missing or underrepresented in the dominant public narratives. The contributions in this volume were chosen to specifically address this need. In doing so, it uniquely provides not only Western perspectives of the GWOT, but also importantly includes perspectives from the Middle East and those most directly affected by it, including contributions from scholars and policy makers. Overall, the contributions demonstrate how views differ based on geographical location, and how views have changed during the course of the still-evolving War on Terror.

The book will be of much interest to students and scholars of terrorism and counter-terrorism, foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics, security studies and IR, as well as policy makers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Edited ByCharles Webel

part I|2 pages

Framing and assessing the War on Terror

chapter 1|11 pages

The evil scourge of terrorism

Reality, construction, remedy 1
Edited ByNoam Chomsky

chapter 2|27 pages

The complex relationship between peacebuilding and terrorism approaches

Towards post-terrorism and a post-liberal peace? *
Edited ByOliver P. Richmond, Ioannis Tellidis

chapter 3|12 pages

Trauma and the city

The psychology of America’s terrorism trauma
Edited BySarton Weinraub

part II|3 pages

Hearing from the victims of terror-inflicted regions

chapter 4|22 pages

The Syrian tragedy

The role of the West, a government insider’s account
Edited ByBouthaina Shaaban

chapter 5|26 pages

Iraq

A victim of terror and the War on Terror
Edited ByAnwar Said al-Haidari, Mark Tomass

chapter 6|29 pages

The ideological origins of ISIS

Fighting terror with common sense
Edited ByMark Tomass

chapter 7|8 pages

Winning the hearts and minds of the Pukhtuns of Afghanistan and Northwest Pakistan with altruism, public health and development, not by terrorism and counterterrorism

Edited BySher Mohammed Khan

part III|2 pages

Calculating the costs of the War on Terror

chapter 8|16 pages

The global war on terrorism

How ethical and effective?
Edited ByCharles P. Webel, John A. Arnaldi

chapter 9|33 pages

Led astray

Legal and moral blowback from the global War on Terror
Edited ByWilliam A. Cohn

chapter 10|18 pages

Terror from above and within

The hidden cultural and political costs of lethal drones
Edited ByLaurie Calhoun

part IV|3 pages

Analyzing, negotiating with, and ending terrorist groups

chapter 11|10 pages

A dialogue on why Western youth are attracted to ISIS

Edited ByScott Atran, Mark Tomass

chapter 12|6 pages

Negotiating with the Taliban

Not war on terrorism, but dialogue for solutions
Edited ByJohan Galtung

chapter 13|19 pages

A tale of two CTs

A ground-level counterinsurgency perspective on Belgian counter-terrorism measures
Edited ByCasey Douglas Carr

chapter 14|20 pages

The “war on terrorism”

What does it mean to win? *
Edited ByAudrey Kurth Cronin

chapter |12 pages

Conclusion

Edited ByCharles Webel
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