The West at WarBradley C. S. Watson Lexington Books, 2006 - 222 էջ In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time--the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the context of the "war on terror." Ranging from the nature of Islam and the West, to ethics and terror, to the western way of warfare, the volume deals thematically with major issues raised by this conflict in a way that no other single-volume does. Contributors bring to bear arguments on the philosophic, political, religious, ethical, and policy dimensions of the war. As the title of the book suggests, this conflict implicates all of Western civilization, demonstrating that this not merely an "American" concern. |
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... argues that the current conflict is best understood not primarily in terms of the modes and means of terror , or even in terms of hatred of the West , but rather in terms of a society , culture , and tradition that have been ...
... argues that the current conflict is best understood not primarily in terms of the modes and means of terror , or even in terms of hatred of the West , but rather in terms of a society , culture , and tradition that have been ...
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... argues that the West has undergone a series of transformations of identity , often linked to wars . In moving from our unified ( roughly pre - 1500 ) Catholic Christian identity through the Enlightenment , we have avoided internecine ...
... argues that the West has undergone a series of transformations of identity , often linked to wars . In moving from our unified ( roughly pre - 1500 ) Catholic Christian identity through the Enlightenment , we have avoided internecine ...
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... argue that there is a uniquely American vocabulary rooted in the very founding of the nation that contemporary statesmen could employ to great ef- fect in making the kinds of hard arguments , and securing the kind of public support ...
... argue that there is a uniquely American vocabulary rooted in the very founding of the nation that contemporary statesmen could employ to great ef- fect in making the kinds of hard arguments , and securing the kind of public support ...
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... - Western ends . We are engaged , as Cooper argued , in a military and political but also a psychological struggle . Our increasingly efficient means of directly engaging an ( ever - reproducing ) A Stomach for this Fight ? 13.
... - Western ends . We are engaged , as Cooper argued , in a military and political but also a psychological struggle . Our increasingly efficient means of directly engaging an ( ever - reproducing ) A Stomach for this Fight ? 13.
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... argues , we have di- rected but scant attention . To the extent we have , we have relied , again , on core Western assumptions that seem inherently questionable : the belief that history has a direction , and that freely choosing people ...
... argues , we have di- rected but scant attention . To the extent we have , we have relied , again , on core Western assumptions that seem inherently questionable : the belief that history has a direction , and that freely choosing people ...
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A Failure of Imagination Thinking About Culture Tradition and Society After 911 | 19 |
Understanding Radical Islam | 29 |
Understanding Jihadist Terrorism After 911 | 41 |
Western Identities Versus Islamist Terrorism Liberals and Christians in the New War | 53 |
The Liberal Regime Under Attack | 73 |
The Rise of Toleration in the West and Its Implications for the War on Terror | 99 |
ETHICS AND TERROR | 111 |
The Christian Just War Tradition Neither Niebuhr nor Yoder | 113 |
Ethics and Terror A Moral Vocabulary for Statesmen | 135 |
What Doth It Profit a Man? Preserving Liberty and the Rule of Law in the War on Terror | 157 |
THE WESTERN WAY OF WARFARE | 179 |
The War on Terrorism and the Western Wayof War | 181 |
Media Bias in Iraq The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Americans | 199 |
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About the Contributors | 219 |
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