The matador's cape :America's reckle...
Holmes, Stephen, (1948-)

 

  • The matador's cape :America's reckless response to terror /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 973.931
    書名/作者: The matador's cape : : America's reckless response to terror // Stephen Holmes.
    作者: Holmes, Stephen,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (x, 367 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
    附註: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
    標題: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
    標題: Terrorism - Government policy - United States.
    標題: Terrorism - Religious aspects
    標題: Anti-Americanism.
    標題: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence.
    標題: United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
    ISBN: 9780511509834 (ebook)
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus, detailing the ideological, bureaucratic, electoral and (not least) emotional forces that severely distorted the American understanding of, and response to, the terrorist threat. He also shows how the gratuitous and disastrous shift of attention from al Qaeda to Iraq was shaped by a series of misleading theoretical perspectives on the end of deterrence, the clash of civilizations, humanitarian intervention, unilateralism, democratization, torture, intelligence gathering and wartime expansions of presidential power. The author's breadth of knowledge about the War on Terror leads to conclusions about present-day America that are at once sobering in their depth of reference and inspiring in their global perspective.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509834
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