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Us versus Them : The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green Threat /

In this important new book, Douglas Little explores the political and cultural turmoil that led U.S. policy makers to shift their attention from containing the "Red Threat" of international communism to combating the "Green Threat" of radical Islam after 1989. Little analyzes Ame...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Little, Douglas, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction. Us versus them : America and Islam in the age of terror -- Genesis : containment and Cold War in the Muslim world -- George H.W. Bush and the end of the Cold War : "beyond containment" in the Middle East -- Bill Clinton and the Middle East : from "enlargement" to "dual containment" -- Containment on steroids : George W. Bush and rogue state rollback -- The Obama doctrine : "contagement" and counterterrorism in the Muslim world -- Revelations : "contagement" Islamophobia, and a new cold war in the Middle East. 
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