
Counter-terrorism
Containment and Beyond
Jonathan Stevenson(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 8. March 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-0-19-856759-2 (ISBN)
Description
The 9/11 attacks revealed that the transnational terrorist threat facing the US and its partners was far more dangerous than most had previously discerned. It was now clear that al-Qaeda intended to, and could threaten the West's - particularly the US' - political and military leverage, with the aim of shifting the balance of power from the West to Islam after a violent global confrontation. In that sense, the new terrorist threat is strategic, and it has led to a worldwide mobilisation comparable to that required by a world war.
This Paper argues that prevailing in the 'war' on terror, much like victory in the Cold War, entails containment, deterrence, outperformance and engagement. Military power is secondary to intelligence, law enforcement, enlightened social policy and diplomacy. Diplomatic engagement with the larger Muslim world is paramount as a means of denying al-Qaeda not merely recruits but the'clash of civilisations' it seeks.
The US-led intervention in Iraq, though intended to introduce democratic reform in the wider Middle East, has so far antagonised Islam and strengthened Islamist terrorism. This suggests that coercive or aggressively ideological diplomacy is unlikely to win over an Islamic population biased by anti-Western propaganda. Successful Western diplomacy will have to be discreet, nuanced and incremental.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Thomson West
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-856759-2 (9780198567592)
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Content
Introduction, Chapter 1 Securing Territory Against al-Qaeda, Chapter 2 Law-enforcement and Intelligence Capabilities, Chapter 3 Social Science and Diplomacy Chapter 4 Outperforming the Terrorists