The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad

by Phares, Walid

• ISBN13: 9780230603899
• ISBN10: 0230603890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

In Future Jihad, terrorism and Middle East expert Walid Phares gave a definitive account of the historical and cultural forces that led to September 11 and the rise of radical Islam. In The War of Ideas, he revealed the conflict of ideologies that underlie the War on Terror. Now, in The Confrontation, he identifies the clashes to come and provides a blueprint for defeating the forces of jihad. Moving from the ravaged villages of the Sudan to London's Muslim neighborhoods to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, he illuminates the vast and complex world of the global jihadist movement. He offers a multi-pronged strategy, global in scope, and calls on the world's diverse local and international institutions to come together and coordinate their efforts. Pointing the way forward, this book shows how we might reclaim a world that is safe for freedom and democratic societies.

Author Biography

Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a visiting fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Why This Book?	p. 1
Introduction	p. 11
Redefining the War	p. 19
Western Rethinking	p. 29
Cultural Revolution in the West	p. 43
Economic Revolution	p. 53
Diplomatic Revolution	p. 75
Revolution in the Arab Muslim World	p. 99
War of Ideas Intensified	p. 123
Isolating Jihadism	p. 133
U.S. Homeland Survival	p. 143
A Greater Europe to Confront Jihadism	p. 155
Russia's War on Jihadism	p. 181
Confrontations in the Greater Middle East	p. 195
The Southern Battlefields	p. 213
The State of the Confrontation	p. 237
Conclusion: Past Choices and New Directions	p. 255
Notes	p. 273
Index	p. 288
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