Title: The West at war /
Authors: Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Civilization, Western.; East and West.; Islam; Islam; Islamic fundamentalism Political aspects.; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Iraq War, 2003-2011.; War (Philosophy) History.; Violence Religious aspects Islam; Just war doctrine.
Contents: Part 1 : Islam and the West -- A failure of imagination : thinking about culture, tradition, and society after 9/11 / Akbar Ahmed -- Understanding radical Islam / Paul Marshall -- Understanding jihadist terrorism after 9/11 / Barry Cooper -- Western identities versus Islamist terrorism : liberals and Christians in the new war / James Kurth -- The liberal regime under attack / Leon Harold Craig -- The rise of toleration in the West and its implications for the war on terror / Kenneth R. Weinstein -- Part II : ethics and terror -- The Christian just-war tradition : neither Niebuhr nor Yoder / David D. Corey -- Ethics and terror : a moral vocabulary for statesmen / Bradley C.S. Watson -- What doth it profit a man? : preserving liberty and the rule of law in the "War on Terror" / Alberto R. Coll -- Part III: The western way of warfare -- The war on terrorism and the western way of war / David Tucker -- Media bias in Iraq : the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans / Robert Alt.