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Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat.

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks this book reassesses the effectiveness of the ""War on Terror"", considers how al-Qaeda and other jihadist movements are faring, explores the impact of wider developments in the Islamic world such as the Arab Spring, and discusses whether all this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Acharya, Arabinda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge security in Asia Pacific series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Ten Years After 9/11; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Operation Neptune Spear; Is a rethink or new strategy needed?; Right tools; just war?; War or wars on terror?; How will it end?; Structure of the book; 1 9/11 and globalization of violence; Universality of terror; Universality of war on terror; Outcome of the globalization of violence; 2 Construction of the adversary; Another Cold War?; Clash of or within civilizations?; The jihadist movement: organization and objectives; Group, network or leaderless jihad?
  • 3 Strategy of the global jihadist movementStrategy of the global jihadist movement; Melding the political with religion; Ideology as a weapon; Construction of the narrative; A unified or a fragmented movement?; 4 Tactics of the jihadist movement; Strategic communication; Economic warfare; Weapons of mass destruction (WMD); 5 Fighting the jihadist threat; The grand strategy; Just war?; Democratic peace; Changing the strategy?; 6 Ten years after: bringing the conflict to an end; Gains and losses; How will the war end?; Declaring victory and moving on?; Impact of Arab Spring.
  • Conclusion: stealing the jihadists' playbook exploiting the fissures within the jihadist movement; Jihadists' Achilles heel; Rifts within the jihadist movement; Turning the jihad inward; Notes; Bibliography; Index.