The Thistle and the Drone : How America's War on Terror became a global war on tribal Islam

By:

Ahmed, Akbar S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lahore : Vanguard, 2013.Description: xi,424 p. : ill ; 25 cm. H.BISBN:

9789694025667

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

909.831 AHM

Summary: In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. Morethan ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result ofthis war: in many nations it has exacerbated the already broken relationship between central governments and the largely rural Muslim tribal societies on the peripheries of both Muslim and non-Muslim nations. The center and the periphery are engaged in a mutually destructive civil war across the globe, a conflict that has been intensified by the w.

List(s) this item appears in: ISLAMIC STUDIES 025 | Political Science and International Relations

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In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. Morethan ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result ofthis war: in many nations it has exacerbated the already broken relationship between central governments and the largely rural Muslim tribal societies on the peripheries of both Muslim and non-Muslim nations. The center and the periphery are engaged in a mutually destructive civil war across the globe, a conflict that has been intensified by the w.

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