The West at War

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 that 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.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction A Stomach for this Fight? Terrorism and the Western Way of Life and Thought

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Bradley C.S. Watson

Part I: Islam and the West

1 A Failure of Imagination: Thinking About Culture, Tradition, and Society After 9/11

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Akbar Ahmed

2 Understanding Radical Islam

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Paul Marshall

3 Understanding Jihadist Terrorism After 9/11

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Barry Cooper

4 Western Identities Versus Islamist Terrorism: Liberals and Christians in the New War

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James Kurth

5 The Liberal Regime Under Attack

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Leon Harold Craig

6 The Rise of Toleration in the West and Its Implications for the War on Terror

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Kenneth R. Weinstein

Part II: Ethics and Terror

7 The Christian Just War Tradition: Neither Niebuhr nor Yoder

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David D. Corey

8 Ethics and Terror: A Moral Vocabulary for Statesmen

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Bradley C.S. Watson

9 What Doth It Profit a Man?: Preserving Liberty and the Rule of Law in the "War on Terror"

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Alberto R. Coll

Part III: The Western Way of Warfare

10 The War on Terrorism and the Western Way of War

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David Tucker

11 Media Bias in Iraq: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Americans

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Robert Alt

Index

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About the Contributors

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