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Autore: | Gutkowski Stacey |
Titolo: | Secular war : myths of religion, politics and violence / / by Stacey Gutkowski |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2013 |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
Disciplina: | 956.014 |
303.6 | |
Soggetto topico: | Jihad |
Secularism | |
War - Causes | |
Middle Eastern history | |
Soggetto geografico: | Islamic countries Relations Western countries |
Middle East Relations Western countries | |
Western countries Relations Islamic countries | |
Western countries Relations Middle East | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Secular war |
ISBN: | 0-7556-1996-X |
0-85772-749-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154896703321 |
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