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

by Michael J. Mazarr

• ISBN13: 9780521712910
• ISBN10: 0521712912
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Five years after September 11, a sense of malaise and uncertainty surrounds the so-called war on terror. This volume offers a bold, fresh rethinking of the central challenge in that conflict: the rise of radical Islamism. The book argues that this movement represents the latest in a series of anti-modern political and philosophical rebellions: in its causes, the shape of its ideology, and its social consequences, the movement shares much in common with German fascism, Russian revolutionary doctrines, and Japanese imperialist nationalism. In making these comparisons, the book builds a model of how anti-modern movements arise and suggests broader truths about the changing character of world politics and the psychological basis of national security in a globalized world. It concludes with a critique of the war on terror as currently pursued and a wide-ranging proposal for a strikingly different approach to the challenge of this latest challenge to modernity.

Author Biography

Michael Mazaar is professor of national security strategy at the U.S. National War College in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Argument	p. 1
Modernization's Price	p. 33
The Existentialist Diagnosis	p. 65
Stages in the Trajectory of Antimodernism	p. 99
The Antimodern Ideology	p. 143
The Leaders and the Recruits	p. 176
What To Do	p. 203
Notes	p. 237
Index	p. 278
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