03229nam 22005651 450 991015489670332120200506135228.00-7556-1996-X0-85772-749-410.5040/9780755619962(CKB)4340000000018505(MiAaPQ)EBC4749875(OCoLC)1157211387(UtOrBLW)bpp09265351(EXLCZ)99434000000001850520200603d2013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSecular war myths of religion, politics and violence /by Stacey GutkowskiFirst edition.London :I.B. Tauris,2013.1 online resource (241 pages)1-78076-535-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Shared Cultural Palette: European Origins of British Secular Ways of War -- 2 Developing Secular Habits in War: the Northern Irish Troubles -- 3 The British Secular Habitus up to and including the 9/11 Wars -- 4 War in Afghanistan: From Secular Hysteresis to a Culturalist Approach, 2001 - 2010 -- 5 War in Iraq: Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Question of Secular Democracy, 2003 - 2004 -- 6 War at Home: Pastoral Power and Secular Regimes of Security in Britain, 2005 - 2010 -- 7 Restructuring the Secular Habitus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."How have long-standing and unconscious secular assumptions about religion shaped the post-9/11 climate and its wars? Stacey Gutkowski explores this little-examined, yet crucial, element of British perceptions of and policy towards Jihadism over the last decade, to draw critical conclusions about the relationship between war and the secular. She points to a surprisingly coherent body of secular beliefs that have fuelled policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and counter-terrorism, and that have had mixed results - responsible for both positive strategies and tragic errors. The theory Gutkowski develops on the impact of this secular approach to warfare holds a broader global significance, and cannot be viewed as just a British phenomenon. This book addresses ongoing and critical debates, such as the 'overreach' of Western liberal interventionism in the Middle East, and speaks to policy-makers, security analysts and students of IR, Foreign Policy and Security Studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.JihadSecularismWarCausesMiddle Eastern historyBICIslamic countriesRelationsWestern countriesMiddle EastRelationsWestern countriesWestern countriesRelationsIslamic countriesWestern countriesRelationsMiddle EastJihad.Secularism.WarCauses.Middle Eastern history.956.014303.6Gutkowski Stacey1264384UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910154896703321Secular war2964297UNINA