Arabinda Acharya - Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat

Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...50

Ten Years After 9/11

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 suggests that a new approach to containing international, especially jihadist, terrorism is needed. Among the book's many richly argued conclusions are that the war on terror and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have brutalized the United States; that the jihadist threat is not one, but rather a wide range of separate, unconnected struggles; and that al-Qaeda's ideology contains the seeds of its own destruction, in that although many Muslims are content to see the United States worsted, they do not approve of al-Qaeda's violence and are not taken in by the jihadists' empty promises of utopia.

Arabinda Acharya is a Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Routledge security in Asia Pacific series

Series Editors
Leszek Buszynski
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
and
William Tow
Australian National University

Security issues have become more prominent in the Asia Pacific region because of the presence of global players, rising great powers, and confident middle powers, which intersect in complicated ways. This series puts forward important new work on key security issues in the region. It embraces the roles of the major actors, their defense policies and postures and their security interaction over the key issues of the region. It includes coverage of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, the Koreas, as well as the middle powers of ASEAN and South Asia. It also covers issues relating to environmental and economic security as well as transnational actors and regional groupings.

Bush and Asia
America's evolving relations with East Asia
Edited by Mark Beeson

Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security
Edited by Brad Williams and Andrew Newman

Regional Cooperation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia
The impact of domestic forces
Edited by Edward Friedman and Sung Chull Kim

Energy Security in Asia
Edited by Michael Wesley

Australia as an Asia Pacific Regional Power
Friendships in flux?
Edited by Brendan Taylor

Securing Southeast Asia
The politics of security sector reform
Mark Beeson and Alex J. Bellamy

Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons
Bhumitra Chakma

Human Security in East Asia
Challenges for collaborative action
Edited by Sorpong Peou

Security and International Politics in the South China Sea
Towards a co-operative management regime
Edited by Sam Bateman and Ralf Emmers

Japan's Peace Building Diplomacy in Asia
Seeking a more active political role
Lam Peng Er

Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia
Ralf Emmers

North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 19662008
Narushige Michishita

Political Change, Democratic Transitions and Security in Southeast Asia
Mely Caballero-Anthony

American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific
Brendan Taylor

Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power
Between rising naval powers
Edited by Sam Bateman and Joshua Ho

Human Security in Southeast Asia
Yukiko Nishikawa

ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia
Ralf Emmers

India as an Asia Pacific Power
David Brewster

ASEAN Regionalism
Cooperation, values and institutionalisation
Christopher B. Roberts

Nuclear Power and Energy Security in Asia
Edited by Rajesh Basrur and Koh Swee Lean Collin

Maritime Challenges and Priorities in Asia
Implications for regional security
Edited by Joshua Ho and Sam Bateman

Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia
Managing risk and resilience
Edited by Lorraine Elliott and Mely Caballero-Anthony

Ten Years After 9/11
Rethinking the jihadist threat
Arabinda Acharya

Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific Security
Contending cooperation
Edited by William T. Tow and Brendan Taylor

Negotiating with North Korea
The Six Party Talks and the Nuclear Issue
Leszek Buszynski

Ten Years After 9/11

Rethinking the jihadist threat

Arabinda Acharya

First published 2013
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2013 Arabinda Acharya

The right of Arabinda Acharya to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Acharya, Arabinda.
Ten years after 9/11: rethinking the jihadist threat / Arabinda Acharya.
p. cm. (Routledge security in Asia Pacific series; 23)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. TerrorismPrevention. 2. TerrorismReligious aspectsIslam. 3. Jihad.
4. Qaida (Organization) 5. War on Terrorism, 20012009. I. Title.
II. Title: 10 years after 9/11.
HV6431.A278 2013
363.325dc23
2012031627

ISBN: 978-0-415-62587-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-06742-0 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong

In loving memory of my sister Harapriya Acharya, who mentored me during the early years of my life

Contents

Preface

More than ten years after the 9/11 attacks and the global war on terrorism do we need a rethink or to look for a new strategy to fight terrorism, or to be more precise, to fight the jihadist threat? The terrorism perpetrated by the jihadist movement has often been seen as an existential threat. The jihadists have succeeded in changing not only our way of life, but also the way we perceive security and our relations with others. They continue to cause fear and anxiety which often clouds rational judgment in articulating our response to the threat.

But as this book argues, there is no reason to believe that the jihadist movement will be a long or generational conflict or that the jihadists will be able to overturn the Westphalian state system. On the other hand, the jihadist movement itself is now under severe strain due to loss of organization, decapitation of its leadership, and internal dissensions involving lack of discretion in the use of violence. Developments such as the Arab Spring could also be undoing the jihadists' projects on many fronts.

Next page

1234567...50

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat»

Look at similar books to Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Arabinda Acharya

Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes

Sohan Lal Gandhi

Acharya Mahapragya: A Journey to Wisdom

Acharya Prashant

Ananda

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

Homegrown: ISIS in America

Prasanna Kumar Acharya

Manasara

Paul Moorcraft

The Jihadist Threat

Acharya Prashant

Karma

Anthony Richards

Jihadist Terror: New Threats, New Responses

Acharya Vinod

Nietzsche and Epicurus

Gautam Acharya

THE MAGICIAN WHO LOST HIS WALLET

Sujoy Acharya

Test-Driven Development with Mockito

Acharya S

The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

Discussion, reviews of the book Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.