Talking to the enemy
Subtitle: faith, brotherhood, and the (un)making of terrorists
By: Scott Atran
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780061344909
Subjects: International relations; Psychology; Terrorists; Social aspects; Religious aspects; Group identity; Taliban; Psychological aspects; Qaida (Organization); Terrorism; Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah
Description: Looks at the root causes of terrorism; discusses the psychological, social, and religious aspects of terrorism; and offers practical solutions on ways to identify and prevent future terrorists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-533) and index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-533) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The cause. 1. Sulawesi : an anthropologist at work; title: 2. To be human : what is it?; title: 3. The Moors of Mezuak; title: II. The religious rise of civilizations. 4. Creation of the western world; title: 5. Submission : Islam; title: 6. The tides of terror; title: 7. A parallel universe : the 9/11 Hamburg group and the three waves of jihad; title: III. Whither Al Qaeda? Bali and Madrid. 8. Farhin's way; title: 9. The road to Bali : "For all you Christian infidels!"; title: 10. The JI social club; title: 11. The great train bombing : Madrid, March 11, 2004; title: 12. Looking for Al Qaeda; title: 13. The ordinariness of terror; title: IV. The wild east. 14. Prying into Pakistan; title: 15. A question of honor : why the Taliban fight and what to do about it; title: 16. The terror scare : exaggerating threats at home and abroad; title: V. War parties : groups, God, and glory. 17. All in the family : imagined kin, friendship, and teamwork; title: 18. Blood sport : war makes men men; title: 19. Beyond all reason : the Clausewitz delusion; title: VI. "The mother of all problems" : Palestine, the world's symbolic knot. 20. Martyrdom 101; title: 21. Words to end wars : the science of the sacred; title: VII. The divine dream and the collapse of cultures. 22. Bad faith : the new atheist salvation; title: 23. Human rites : natural origins and evolution of religion; title: 24. Our religious world; title: Epilogue : Abe's answer : the question of politics.