America’s Long War with Islamist Militancy
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A clear-eyed retrospective look at America's War on Terror, told through declassified documents and the ever-evolving foreign policy of the United States towards the Middle East.
America's Long War with Islamist Militancy charts the evolution of American foreign policy towards the Islamist movement from the Cold War to the present. At the center of this book are two intertwined narratives. The first focuses on the evolution of the Islamist movement from the early 20th Century to the present. The influence of the Cold War on the political fortunes of conservative Islam is a central feature of this narrative, as is the changing nature of the jihadist ideology and the proliferation of militant groups in the post-9/11 period.
The second narrative examines the American foreign policy response to the Islamist movement in general and to militant extremism in particular. This second part of the book outlines several distinct stages of American policy and examines the debates within the Washington policy community that shaped that policy. In doing so, the book provides an explanation for the failure of U.S. strategy to achieve its larger goals and offers an alternative way of thinking about Islamism, violence, and the utility of military power in the pursuit of American interests and values.
Table of Contents
o Overview
o Rethinking Islamist Politics
o Debating American Foreign Policy
o Plan of the Book
Part I – The Rise of the Islamist Movement
1) Chapter 1 – The Islamist Movement – Origins through the Cold War
a. Islamic Reform and Resistance
i. The Islamic Reform Movement
ii. The Islamist Alternative (1920 – 1948)
iii. Sayyid Qutb and the New Militancy (1950 – 1966)
1. The Question of Violence
2. Farag's Neglected Duty
b. Islam and the Cold War
i. U.S. Foreign Policy and The Arab Cold War
ii. Politics by other Means
iii. The Counter-Revolution
c. Conclusion
2) Chapter 2: The Islamist Revolution – Part I
a. The Iranian Revolution
i. The Fall of the Shah and Rise of Khomeini
ii. Geopolitical Implications of the Revolution
b. The Afghan War (1979-1988)
i. The Soviet Invasion and U.S. Response
ii. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the Mujahedin
iii. The Legacy of the Afghan War
1. Evolution of an Ideology
2. The Transformation of a Movement
3. Civil War and the Rise of the Taliban
c. Conclusion
3) Chapter 3: The Islamist Revolution – Part II
a. Islamism on the March?
i. The 1990/91 Gulf War and its Fallout
ii. Islamist Insurgencies
1. Algeria
2. Egypt
b. U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s
i. The Debate: Confrontation vs. Engagement
1. Confrontation
2. Engagement/Accommodation
ii. U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice
c. Conclusion: Islamists in Retreat
PART II – America Goes To War
4) Chapter 4: 9/11 and the Declaration of War
a. Islamist Militancy Evolves
i. Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda
ii. U.S. Counter-Terrorism in the 1990s
b. The 9/11 Attacks
i. The Debate: Interpreting 9/11
ii. America's Role in the World
c. Conclusion
5) Chapter 5: Prosecuting the War on Terror – Part I
a. The War in Afghanistan
i. The 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan and the Fall of the Taliban
ii. The Question of Pakistan
b. Civil Liberties and the Expansion of Executive Authority
i. Detention, Rendition and Coercive Interrogation
ii. Surveillance
iii. The Unitary Executive
c. A Question of Values
d. Conclusion
6) Chapter 6: Prosecuting the War on Terror – Part II
a. The 2003 Iraq War
i. The Bush Doctrine
ii. The Case for War
iii. Invasion and Occupation
iv. Insurgency and the Evolving Case for War
1. Civil War and State Collapse
2. Debating the Way Forward
b. Conclusion
7) Chapter 7: The War on Terror Evolves – 2006-2008
a. The Legacy of Iraq
i. The Question of Iran
ii. Islamic Militancy in Iraq and Counter-Insurgency (COIN)
iii. Afghanistan
b. JSOC and the proliferation of Conflict
i. 2006 Quadrennial Review
ii. Battlegrounds
c. American Religious Nationalism
d. Conclusion
Part III– Finding A New Way Forward
8) Chapter 8: Obama's War (2008-2012)
a. Retrenchment and the Obama Doctrine
i. Afghan Policy Review
ii. Reining in the War on Terror
b. 2011 Uprisings
i. Egypt, Tunisia and Popular Protest
ii. Civil War and the Question of Intervention
iii. The Islamist Turn
c. The U.S. Response and Obstacles to reform
9) Chapter 9: The War for the Middle East (2013-2016)
a. The Unravelling of the Regional Order
i. Saudi Arabia vs. Iran
ii. Intra-Sunni Conflict
iii. Battlegrounds: Yemen, Libya, Syria
b. The Rise of ISIS
i. Overview – 2014-2016
ii. US Policy Debates
c. Islamophobia and the Fear of Shariaization
10) Chapter 10: The Trump Era and After
a. Trump's War on Terror
i. Return of the Eradicators
ii. Fall of ISIS and the proliferation of conflict
iii. Afghanistan/Pakistan
b. The Biden Administration and the withdrawal from Afghanistan
c. An Alternative Future
i. The View from the Islamic World
ii. The Unfulfilled Agenda: Economic and Political Reform
iii. Fear of Islam: Its Costs and Legacy
iv. Re-defining the problem/Finding the Solution
- Conclusion
Product details
| Published | Mar 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 9798216452102 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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