A necessary engagement : reinventing America's relations with the Muslim world / Emile A. Nakhleh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakhleh, Emile A., 1938-

Series:

Princeton studies in Muslim politics.

Princeton studies in Muslim politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Relations--Islamic countries.

United States.

Islamic countries--Relations--United States.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique balance between in-depth analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, the book injects much-needed wisdom into the public discussion of long-term U.S.-Muslim relations. Intelligence insider Emile Nakhleh argues that an engagement with the Muslim world benefits the national interest of the United States. Therefore, the next administration should discard the terrorism prism through which the country has viewed political Islam since 9/11 and focus instead on the common interests of America and mainstream Muslims. Nakhleh investigates recent U.S. policy toward Islamic nations and offers the new administration a ten-point plan for rebuilding America's relationship with the Muslim world. The author demonstrates that winning over Arabs and Muslims requires a thorough knowledge of Arab and Muslim cultures and languages within our intelligence community, as well as a long-term American commitment of personnel and resources. While the success of these efforts will be incremental and hard to measure, Nakhleh believes that the current low standing of the United States in most Arab and Muslim countries can be reversed. Stressing that effective public diplomacy must be a serious, coordinated effort pursued at the highest political levels, A Necessary Engagement charts a new course for future ties between the United States and the Islamic world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Author's Note

Introduction

Chapter 1. Political Islam and Islamization

Chapter 2. Intelligence, Political Islam, and Policymakers

Chapter 3. Public Diplomacy: Issues and Attitudes

Chapter 4. Public Diplomacy: A Blueprint

Conclusion. Looking Ahead

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Sources Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-153) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786612157554

9781282157552

1282157558

9781400829989

1400829984

OCLC:

437034909