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The matador's cape :America's reckless response to terror /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
[NT 15000414]:	973.931
Title/Author:	The matador's cape : : America's reckless response to terror // Stephen Holmes.
Author:	Holmes, Stephen,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 367 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Subject:	Terrorism - Government policy - United States.
Subject:	Terrorism - Religious aspects
Subject:	Anti-Americanism.
Subject:	September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence.
Subject:	United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
ISBN:	9780511509834 (ebook)
[NT 15000228]:	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.
[NT 15000229]:	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.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509834

The matador's cape :America's reckless response to terror /
Holmes, Stephen,1948-

The matador's cape :America's reckless response to terror /Stephen Holmes. - 1 online resource (x, 367 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511509834 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

374006
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

338488
United States
--Economic conditions--To 1865.

LC Class. No.: HV6432 / .H653 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 973.931

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