Research Catalog

Title

Understanding the war on terror / [edited by James F. Hoge, Jr. & Gideon Rose]

Publication

New York : Foreign Affairs/Council on Foreign Relations : distributed by W.W. Norton, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hoge, James F.
• Rose, Gideon
• Council on Foreign Relations

Description

xiii, 435 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)

Subject

• Qaida (Organization)
• Since 2001
• Terrorism
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009

Note

• "A Foreign Affairs Book."
• Compilation of articles originally published in Foreign affairs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Gideon Rose -- I. THE ENEMY -- We have some planes / The 9/11 Commission -- Overview of the enemy / 9/11 Commission staff statement no. 15 -- Outline of the 9/11 plot / 9/11 Commission staff statement no. 16 -- Somebody else's civil war / Michael Scott Doran -- Inside al-Qaeda's hard drive / Alan Cullison -- Why do they hate us? / Fareed Zakaria -- Terror, Islam, and democracy / Ladan Boroumand and Roya Boroumand -- Left, right, and beyond: the changing face of terror / Walter Laqueur -- II. THE WAR -- Counterterrorism before 9/11: national policy coordination / 9/11 Commission staff statement no. 8 -- Address to a joint session of Congress and the American people / George W. Bush -- A flawed masterpiece / Michael E. O'Hanlon -- The jihadist threat to Pakistan / Stephen Philip Cohen -- Saudi Arabia and the war on terrorism / F. Gregory Gause III -- Is southeast Asia the second front? / John Gershman -- Promoting democracy and fighting terror / Thomas Carothers -- Response: democracy promotion / Paula J. Dobriansky, Thomas Carothers -- III. THE HOME FRONT -- American the vulnerable / Stephen E. Flynn -- Fixing intelligence / Richard K. Betts -- The law of war in the war on terror / Kenneth Roth -- Response: combatants or criminals? / Ruth Wedgwood, Kennerth Roth -- IV. LESS OR MORE? -- What's in a name? / Michael Howard -- The wrong war / Grenville Byford -- The end of appeasement / Max Boot -- V. THE STATE OF PLAY -- The protean enemy / Jessica Stern -- Counterterrorism after Al Qaeda / Paul R. Pillar -- Not a diversion / Reuel Marc Gerecht -- Bush's lost year / James Fallows -- Afghanistan, Iraq: two wars collide / Barton Gellman, Dafna Linzer.

ISBN

0876093470

OCLC

• 60342408
• SCSB-10653811

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library