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The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror / Stephen Holmes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Stephen, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Terrorism--Government policy--United States.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Government policy.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.
- International relations.
- Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Anti-Americanism.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Physical Description:
- x, 367 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Delving into the causes of the turn in American foreign policy since 9/11, this collection of searing essays explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus. The author's conclusions about present-day America are at once sobering in their depth and inspiring in their global perspective.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Did religious extremism cause 9/11?
- Why military superiority breeds illusions
- How the war was lost
- Radicals trapped in the past
- A self-inflicted wound
- Searching for a new enemy after the Cold War
- Humanitarianism with teeth
- The war of the liberals
- The neo-conservative intifada
- Liberalism strangled by war
- The unilateralist curse
- Battling lawlessness with lawlessness
- The infallibility trap
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521875165
- 0521875161
- OCLC:
- 76864189
- Online:
- Publisher description
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