Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity - Softcover

Mazarr, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521712912 ISBN 13: 9780521712910

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Five years into the war on terror, we still don't understand the supposed "enemy." Official analyses of radical Islam remain simplistic and unhelpful for understanding the motivations and mindsets of people still characterized simply as "evildoers who hate freedom." This book offers a new way of understanding this challenge and figuring out what to do about it. It concludes with specific policy suggestions for a new approach to replace the badly-failing current strategy. This book approaches radical Islam by putting it into a comparative context. It makes a big, bold argument about the character of the threat and the nature of world politics in this provocative and wide-ranging examination of radical Islamists.

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About the Author

Michael Mazarr is professor if national security strategy at the US National War College in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He holds AB and MA degrees from the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. He has been president of the Henry L. Stimson Center, senior vice president for strategic planning and development at the Electronic Industries Alliance, and legislative assistant for foreign affairs and chief writer in the office of Representative Dave McCurdy. He spent eleven years at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, first as a researcher and senior fellow in international security studies and later as editor of the Washington Quarterly and director of the New Millennium Project. He has authored ten books, including North Korea and the Bomb (1995) and Global Trends 2005 (1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521712912
• ISBN 13: 9780521712910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306