War without End: The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and Global Response - Hardcover

Hiro, Dilip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415288010 ISBN 13: 9780415288019

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

This book provides the historical and political context to explain acts of terror, including the September 11th, and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West's responses. Providing a brief history of Islam as a religion and as socio-political ideology, Dilip Hiro goes on to outline the Islamist movements that have thrived in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, and their changing relationship with America. It is within this framework that the rising menace of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida network is discussed.

The Pentagon's amazingly swift victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan is examined along with implications of the Bush Doctrine, encapsulated in his declaration, 'so long as anybody is terrorizing established governments, there needs to be a war' - a recipe for war without end.

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About the Author

Dilip Hiro is a journalist and commentator who has reported on the Middle East, Islam and Central Asia for twenty years. His articles have appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and The Economist. His books include a highly acclaimed trilogy The Longest War, (1991), Desert Shield to Desert Storm, (1992) and Neighbors, Not Friends, (2001).

Review

'The strength of Hiro's book lies in his providing a clear context for events, thus illustrating the extent and depth of the crisis that now exists between the Islamists led, inspired or influenced by bin Laden and the Western nations now at war with him.' - The Financial Times

'This is an immensely useful compendium of the background to the new world that we face ... it should become compulsory reading, not so much for the diplomatic professionals, but for their political masters.' - Middle East International

'Hiro uses simple argument and backs it with a mathematician's logic.' -  The Hindu

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415288010
• ISBN 13: 9780415288019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 556