How Did This Happen? Terrorism And The New War

by Hoge Jr, James F; Rose, Gideon

• ISBN13: 9781586481308
• ISBN10: 1586481304
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-10
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on September 11, one question has been on everyone's mind: "How did this happen?" This book seeks to answer this question in all its critical aspects--the motives and actions of the terrorists, the status of the U.S. military, the context of the Middle East, bioterrorism, airport security, diplomatic pressures--and to provide readers with perspective, information, and sound interpretation. The editors of Foreign Affairs have brought together noted experts whose insights make the events of that terrible day more understandable, even as we steel ourselves for the conflicts ahead.

Author Biography

James F. Hoge, Jr., is the editor of Foreign Affairs and was previously publisher of the New York Daily News and editor and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times. Gideon Rose, the managing editor of Foreign Affairs, has served on the staff of the National Security Council and has taught at Princeton and Columbia universities.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Gideon Rose
The Organization Men	1	(14)
Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack
Brian M. Jenkins
The Uneasy Imperium	15	(16)
Pax Americana in the Middle East
Fouad Ajami
Somebody Else's Civil War	31	(22)
Ideology, Rage, and the Assault on America
Michael Scott Doran
Was It Inevitable?	53	(18)
Islam Through History
Karen Armstrong
Left, Right, And Beyond	71	(12)
The Changing Face of Terror
Walter Laqueur
Graveyard of Empires	83	(14)
Afghanistan's Treacherous Peaks
Milton Bearden
The Restless Region	97	(12)
The Brittle States of Central and South Asia
Rajan Menon
The Kingdom in The Middle	109	(14)
Saudi Arabia's Double Game
F. Gregory Gause III
Commandeering The Palestinian Cause	123	(6)
Bin Laden's Belated Concern
Samuel R. Berger
Mona Sutphen
Strangling The Hydra	129	(16)
Targeting Al Qaeda's Finances
William F. Wechsler
Intelligence Test	145	(18)
The Limits of Prevention
Richard K. Betts
The All-Too-Friendly Skies	163	(20)
Security as an Afterthought
Gregg Easterbrook
The Unguarded Homeland	183	(16)
A Study in Malign Neglect
Stephen E. Flynn
Government's Challenge	199	(12)
Getting Serious About Terrorism
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Germ Wars	211	(6)
The Biological Threat from Abroad
Richard Butler
Countering Bioterrorism	217	(8)
Who's in Charge?
Laurie Garrett
The New Security Mantra	225	(16)
Prevention, Deterrence, Defense
William J. Perry
Waging The New War	241	(14)
What's Next for the U.S. Armed Forces
Wesley K. Clark
Diplomacy in Wartime	255	(14)
New Priorities and Alignments
Michael Mandelbaum
Stirred But not Shaken	269	(14)
The Economic Repercussions
Martin N. Baily
The Home Front	283	(12)
American Society Responds to the New War
Alan Wolfe
The Cold War Is Finally Over	295	(12)
The True Significance of the Attacks
Anatol Lieven
The Return of History	307	(12)
What September 11 Hath Wrought
Fareed Zakaria
Acknowledgments	319	(2)
Contributors	321