The West at war / edited by Bradley C.S. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western.

East and West.

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Islam--20th century.

Islamic fundamentalism--Political aspects.

Islamic fundamentalism.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

War (Philosophy)--History.

War (Philosophy).

Violence--Religious aspects--Islam.

Violence.

Just war doctrine.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 222 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

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 time: the 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, terror, and the Western way of warfare, this 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 philosophical, 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 is not merely an "American" concern.

Contents:

Part 1 : Islam and the West

A failure of imagination : thinking about culture, tradition, and society after 9/11 / Akbar Ahmed

Understanding radical Islam / Paul Marshall

Understanding jihadist terrorism after 9/11 / Barry Cooper

Western identities versus Islamist terrorism : liberals and Christians in the new war / James Kurth

The liberal regime under attack / Leon Harold Craig

The rise of toleration in the West and its implications for the war on terror / Kenneth R. Weinstein

Part II : ethics and terror

The Christian just-war tradition : neither Niebuhr nor Yoder / David D. Corey

Ethics and terror : a moral vocabulary for statesmen / Bradley C.S. Watson

What doth it profit a man? : preserving liberty and the rule of law in the "War on Terror" / Alberto R. Coll

Part III: The western way of warfare

The war on terrorism and the western way of war / David Tucker

Media bias in Iraq : the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans / Robert Alt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739116118

0739116126

OCLC:

67921837

Publisher Number:

9780739116111 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780739116128 (pbk. : alk. paper)