Two Hours that Shook the World : September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences

Fred. Halliday
Bok · Engelsk · 2013 · Electronic books.

Annen tittel	Two Hours that Shook the World
Utgitt	New York : : Saqi, , 2013.
Omfang	1 online resource (427 p.)
Opplysninger	Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Contents; List of Appendices; Keywords: A Lexicon of Crisis; Introduction: Political Violence and the Claims of Reason; 1. September 11, 2001 and the Greater West Asian Crisis; 2. Fundamentalism and Political Power; 3. Violence and Communal Conflict: Terrorism 'from Above' and 'from Below'; 4. Anti-Muslimism: A Short History; 5. Confusing the Issue: 'Islamophobia' Reconsidered; 6. Oslo 1993: A Possible Peace; 7. A Decade after Invasion: The Unease of Kuwait; 8. Iran: The Islamic Republic at the Crossroads; 9. Saudi Arabia: A Family Business in Trouble. - 10. The Other Stereotype: America and its Critics11. Global Inequality and Global Rancour; 12. 'Islam' and the 'West': Cultural Conflict and International Relations; Conclusion: Causes and Consequences; Appendix 1: Founding Statement of al-Qa'ida (23 February 1998); Appendices; Appendix 2: Tashkent Declaration on Fundamental Principles for a Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict in Afghanistan (19 July 1999); Appendix 3: UN Security Council Resolution 1368 (12 September 2001); Appendix 4: UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (28 September 2001. - Appendix 5: Osama bin Laden Statement (7 October 2001)Appendix 6: Suleiman Abu Gaith Statement (9 October 2001; Notes; Index; Copyright. - As the dust settled around the devastation of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, a host of questions emerged surrounding the attacks, the motives behind them and their future implications. In Two Hours that Shook the World Fred Halliday expands on the many socio-cultural, religious and political problems that have plagued the Middle East and Central Asia in the last half-century. Much has been written about ?global terrorism' and the need to eliminate it but also about the divide between East and West, the ?clash of civilisations'. Halliday dispels the idea tha
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Dewey	973.931
ISBN	0863563821