Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism - Softcover

Zunes, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567512267 ISBN 13: 9781567512267

Publisher: Common Courage Press, 2002

Synopsis

Will our democracy be defined by dominance? Or by the higher values we constantly espouse? This is the central question facing us in the wake of 9/11, and Stephen Zunes shows the prospects are not promising.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Stephen Zunes is an associate professor of Politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. He lives in Santa Cruz.

From the Author:

In the aftermath of 9/11, it was apparent that there were large numbers of people who wanted a readable overview of the recent history of the U.S. role in the Middle East and current U.S. policies, a study that would critically challenge certain aspects of the U.S. role in the region but would not simply be a left-wing polemic. I wrote Tinderbox in the hope that--in addition to raising some of the important ethical and legal question regarding U.S. policy--it would primarily address how current U.S. policy actually threatens U.S. security. In covering such areas as human rights, the arms trade, U.S. military intervention, terrorism, Islamic movements, Iraq, Iran, the Arabian peninsula, Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan and related concerns, Tinderbox encourages readers to recognize that it has not been American values of freedom, democracy and rule of law that has created such an anti-American backlash in the Middle East, but the fact that U.S. policy has ignored these values through support for dictatorships and occupation armies and other violations of international law. In noting how increased U.S. militarization of the region has actually made us less secure, I conclude the book with proposed alternative policies that would create a more peaceful and stable Middle East and enhance American security in these dangerous times.

--Stephen Zunes

About this edition

• Publisher: Common Courage Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1567512267
• ISBN 13: 9781567512267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332