The age of terror
Subtitle: America and the world after September 11
By: edited by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Perseus Press; Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Basic Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781903985403
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Terrorism; World politics; 89.58 political violence; Terrorisme; Bestrijding
Description: September 11 marked the beginning of a new era - an age of terror in which counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national governments and international institutions. While the resolve to do whatever necessary to combat terrorism will remain undiminished, a great debate has already begun : What exactly to be done? The answer will depend, in large measure, on the answer to a prior question: What happened here and why? In The Age of Terror, an agenda-setting team of experts begins to answer this question and examines the considerations and objectives of policy decisions in a post-September 11 world.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: And now this : lessons from the old era for the new one  -- John Lewis Gaddis; title: Empowered through violence : the reinventing of Islamic extremism  -- Abbas Amanat; title: Maintaining American power : from injury to recovery  -- Paul Kennedy; title: A Herculean task : the myth and reality of Arab terrorism  -- Charles Hill; title: Clashing civilizations or mad mullahs : the United States between informal and formal empire  -- Niall Ferguson; title: Preserving American values : the challenge at home and abroad  -- Harold Hongju Koh; title: Rethinking the unthinkable : new priorities for new national security  -- Paul Bracken; title: The challenge to science : how to mobilize American ingenuity -- Maxine Singer.