1st Edition

Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat

By Arabinda Acharya Copyright 2013
194 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks this book reassesses the effectiveness of the "War on Terror", considers how al-Qaeda and other jihadist movements are faring, explores the impact of wider developments in the Islamic world such as the Arab Spring, and discusses whether all this suggests that a new approach to containing international, especially jihadist, terrorism is needed. Among the book’s... Read more
Introduction  1. 9/11 and Globalization of Violence  2. Construction of the Adversary 3. Strategy of the Global Jihadist Movement  4. Tactics of the Global Jihadist Movement  5. Fighting the Jihadist Threat  6. Ten Years After: Bringing the Conflict to an End  Conclusion: Stealing Jihadists’ Playbook; Exploiting the Fissures within the Jihadist Movement

Biography

Arabinda Acharya is a Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.