The new threat : from Islamic militancy
By: Burke, Jason
Material type: BookPublisher: London : The bodley head, c2015.Description: ix, 290 p. : maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781847923486Subject(s): Terrorism | Islamic fundamentalism | Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic StudiesDDC classification: 363.325 BU NE Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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363.325 AT SE The secret history of al Qaeda / | 363.325 BE RA Radical, religious, and violent : | 363.325 BE RA Radical, religious, and violent : | 363.325 BU NE The new threat : | 363.325 CO NT Contemporary debates on terrorism / | 363.325 CO NT Contemporary debates on terrorism / | 363.325 CO NT Contemporary debates on terrorism / |
Published simultaneously: New York : The New Press, 2015 ; LC control number: 2015032799 ; under title: The new threat : the past, present, and future of Islamic militancy ; ISBN's: 9781620971352 (hardback), 1620971356 (hardback).
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-250) and index.
Jason Burke is one of the world's leading experts on militant Islam. He embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga (currently at war with ISIS) while still in college. He was hanging out with the Taliban in the late 1990s. He witnessed the bombing of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001 firsthand. With the current emergence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, no one is as well placed as Burke-whose previous books have been chosen as books of the year by The Economist, the Daily Telegraph, and The Independent-to explain this dramatic post-Al Qaeda phase of Islamic militancy. We are now, he argues, entering a new phase of radical violence that is very different from what has gone before, one that is going to redefine the West's relationship with terrorism and the Middle East. ISIS is not "medieval," as many U.S. national security pundits claim, but, Burke explains, a group whose spectacular acts of terror are a contemporary expression of our highly digitized societies, designed to generate global publicity. In his account, radical Islamic terrorism is not an aberration or "cancer," as some politicians assert; it is an organic part of the modern world. This book will challenge the preconceptions of many American readers and will be hotly debated in national security circles.