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The West at War »

Authors: Bradley C. S. Watson, Bradley C. Watson
ISBN-13: 9780739116111, ISBN-10: 0739116118
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: August 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Bradley C. S. Watson

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In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time—the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the context of the _war on terror._

	Introduction : a stomach for this fight? : terrorism and the western way of life and thought	1
1	A failure of imagination : thinking about culture, tradition, and society after 9/11	19
2	Understanding radical Islam	29
3	Understanding Jihadist terrorism after 9/11	41
4	Western identities versus Islamist terrorism : liberals and Christians in the new war	53
5	The liberal regime under attack	73
6	The rise of toleration in the west and its implications for the war on terror	99
7	The Christian just war tradition : neither Niebuhr nor Yoder	113
8	Ethics and terror : a moral vocabulary for statesmen	135
9	What Doth it profit a man? : preserving liberty and the rule of law in the "war on terror"	157
10	The war on terrorism and the western way of war	181
11	Media bias in Iraq : the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans	199

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