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Links To Topics
Iraq
America
& Europe, America & The World
Islamism
Islam & The
West
The
State
Of Middle East Studies
Terrorism
Articles
FouadAjami/Iraq&TheArabs'Future/ForeignAffairs/January-February2003
MichaelScottDoran/Palestine,Iraq,andU.S.Strategy/ForeignAffairs/January-February2003
The Importance Of The Symbolism Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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For a view different from those of Ajami
and Doran with regard to the importance of the
Israeli-Palestininan
conflict for American interests in the Middle East see:
Michael
Ignatieff/TheBurden:AmericanEmpire/NYT/SundayMagazine/January05.2003
Ignatieff maintains that the U.S. must impose a peace agreement on
Israelis
& Palestinians if an attack against Iraq and larger American
objectives
in the Middle East are to be successfully pursued.
For an illustration of the symbolism described by Doran
in helping to define Arab identity see:
FrankBruni/DreamingOfPalestine,TeenagerWritesANovel(NoteSymbolismOfArab-IsraeliConflictHelping
DefineThisTeenager'sSenseOfArabIdentity)/NYT/December28.2002
RichardK.Betts/SuicideFromFearOfDeath:IfSaddamStrikesBack/ForeignAffairs/January-February2003
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Robert
D. Kaplan/A Post-Saddam Scenario/The Atlantic Monthly | November 2002
Iraq could become America's primary staging ground in
the Middle East.And the greatest beneficial effect could come next
door,
in Iran.
James
Fallows/The Fifty-first State?(Iraq)/TheAtlantic/November 2002
Going to war with Iraq would mean shouldering all the
responsibilities of an occupying power the moment victory was achieved.
These would include running the economy,keeping domestic peace, and
protecting
Iraq's borders—and doing it all for years, or perhaps decades. Are we
ready
for this long-term relationship?
JasonZengerle/AtHomeAbroad:CanTheIraqiExilesRemakeIraq?/TheNewRepublic/December23.2002
DavidBrooks/Saddam'sBrain:TheIdeologyBehindTheThuggery/WeeklyStandard/November11.2002
JerroldM.Post/ExplainingSaddamHussein:APsychologicalProfile/PBS.Org/Frontline
This psychological profile of Saddam Hussein evaluating
his personality and political behavior was prepared by Jerrold M. Post,
a professor of psychiatry, political psychology, and international
affairs.
Post presented this analysis to the House Armed Services Committee in
December
1990, on the brink of the U.S. going to war with Iraq.
KennethM.Pollack/WhyIraqCan'tBeDeterred/NYT/September26.2002
WilliamD.Nordhaus/TheEconomicConsequencesOfAWarWithIraq/YaleUniversity/November.2002
The Question of A Just War
GeorgeWeigel/MoralClarityInATimeOfWar/FirstThinss/January2003
The
Bush Foreign Policy "Team"
JasonA.Vest/The
Men From JINSA and CSP/TheNation/Sep't.02.2002
BillKeller/TheSunshineWarrior(OnDeputySecretaryOfDefensePaulWolfowitz)/SundayMagazineNYT/Sept.22.2002
ToddS.Purdum/Embattled,Scrutinized,PowellSoldiersOn/NYT/July25.2002
Satire & Conspiracy
Thinking,
Or...
*TheReportFromIronMountain/LeonardLewin/Nov.1967(WithRemarksByLeonardLewin/NYTBookReview/March19.1972)
ReportFromIronMountain/Background&DescriptionOfReport/museumofhoaxes.com/iron.html
LeslieWayne/SoMuchForThePlanToScrapOldWeapons/NYT/December22.2002
Iraq, The War On Terrorism,
&
The Left
*GeorgePacker/TheLiberalQuandryOverIraq/NYTSundayMagazine/December08.2002
*EdwardRothstein/LeftHasHardTimeInEraOfTerrorism/NYT/December21.2002
MichaelBerube/Ali
vs. Hitchens: Battle on the Left/ChronicleOfHigherEducation/May 3, 2002
Against War With Iraq
MichaelMassing/TheMoralQuandry:Anti-ImperialismVs.Humanitarianism(ContainsLinksToAnti-WarArticles)/TheNation/January06.2003
MichaelWalzer/CanThereBeADecentLeft?/Dissent/Spring2002
MichaelKazin/APatrioticLeft/Dissent/Fall2002
NoWarWithIraq/TheNation/LinksToAnti-WarSites&Articles
JoyGordon/CoolWar(AgainstIraq):EconomicSanctionsAsAWeaponOfMassDestruction/Harpers/December2002
For War With Iraq
ChristopherHitchens/SoLong,FellowTravelers/WashingtonPost/october21.2002
Jonathan
Rauch/The Mullahs and the Postmodernists/TheAtlantic/January/2002
SalmanRushdie/ALiberalArgumentForRegimeChange/WashingtonPost/November01.2002
JonathanChait/WhyLiberalsShouldSupportTheWar/TheNewRepublic/October10.2002
On Symbols Of Patriotism
PeterDreier&DickFlacks/Patriotism'sSecretHistory/TheNation/June3.2002
Additional Materials Of Interest
JayBookman/The
president's real goal in Iraq/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 9/29/02
CharlesP.Freund/DroppingInsultsOverIraq:HeSaid,SheSaid, EdwardSaid/Reason/December04.2002
Saul
Landau/NoThreatFromIraq/opendemocracy/November29.2002
AnthonyLewis/BushAndIraq/TheNewYorkReviewOfBooks/November07.2002
JohnF.Burns/Hussein's Obsession: An Empire of Mosques/NYT/December15.2002
NorvilleB.DeAtkine/WhyArabsLoseWars/AmericanDiplomacy/November30.2002
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II. America & Europe, America & The World
Articles
Samuel
P.Huntington,"TheClashOfCivilizations?"(The original essay)
*RobertKagan/Power&Weakness(WesternEurope&US:DifferencesInPower,Perspective&PoliticalCulture)/PolicyReview/June-July02
StevenErlanger/AmericaTheInvulnerable?TheWorldLooksAgain/NYT/July21.2002/Erlanger'sPieceIsOnEuropeanReactionTo:
R.Kagan/"Power&Weakness"
RonaldD.Asmus&KennethM.Pollack/TheNewTransatlanticProject:AResponseToRobertKagan/PolicyReview/October02.2002
Charles Krauthammer/"TheUnipolarMomentRevisited"/TheNational
Interest/Winter2002-2003
"The future of the unipolar era hinges on whether
America
is governed by those who wish to retain, augment, and use unipolarity
to
advance not just American but global ends, or whether America is
governed
by those who wish to give it up either by allowing unipolarity to decay
as they retreat to Fortress America, or by passing on the burden by
gradually
transferring power to multilateral institutions as heirs to American
hegemony."
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is
PDF.)
PhilipH.Gordon/BridgingTheAtlanticDivide/ForeignAffairs/January-February2003
(Access to Gordon article @ SWTLibrary
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FareedZakaria/OurWay:TheTroubleWithBeingTheWorld'sOnlySuperpower/TheNewYorker/October14.2002(IncludesRemarksOn
RobertKagan's Power&Weakness(WesternEurope&US:DifferencesInPower,Perspective&PoliticalCulture)/PolicyReview/June-July2002
RobertD.Kaplan/TheComingAnarchy/TheAtlantic/February1994
RobertD.Kaplan/TheWorldIn2005/TheAtlantic/March/2002
Charles
A. Kupchan/The End of the West/TheAtlantic/November2002
The next clash of civilizations will not be between the
West and the rest but between theUnited States and Europe—and Americans
remain largely oblivious.
JohnIkenberry/(TheLuresOfPreemption)America'sImperialAmbition/ForeignAffairs/September-October2002
*Francis
Fukuyama/Has History Started Again?/Policy(The Centre for Independent
Studies-Australia)/Winter2002
StanleyKurtz/TheFutureOf"History"/FrancisFukayama&SamuelP.Huntington/PolicyReview/June-July2002
*FrancisFukuyama/"HasHistoryRestartedSinceSeptember11?"/19thAnnualJohnBonythonLecture/Melbourne/August08.2002
Rodney
Dalton/Interview
With Francis Fukuyama/Liberal democracy - that's all, folks/The Weekend
Australian 3-4 August 2002
*FrancisFukuyama/BeyondOurShores:Today's"Conservative"ForeignPolicyHasAnIdealistAgenda/WallStreetJournal/December24.2002
RogerKimball/FailuresOfNerve(OnAnti-Americanism)/TheNewCriterion/November21.2002
Niall
Ferguson/WarNames/NYT/SundayMagazine/December15.2002
The best way to ensure that war becomes more frequent,
says Ferguson would be for the U.S. to follow the European impulse and
disarm...
FareedZakaria/TheRiseOfIlliberalDemocracy/ForeignAffairs/November-December1997
Anti-Semitism In Europe
*Christopher
Caldwell/Liberte,Egalite,Judeophobie/WeeklyStandard:WhyLePenIsTheLeastOfFrance'sProblems/May6.2002
*ChristopherCaldwell/Liberte,Egalite,Judeophobie,Part
2/WeeklyStandard/April27.2002
Yair
Sheleg/A campaign of hatred:The anti-Semitic incidents in Europe...`the
new anti-Semitism.'/Haaretz/May05.2002
OrianaFallaci/IStandWithIsrael:IStandWiththeJews/Corriere
della Sera-Italy/December02.2002/EnglishTranslationInFrontPageMagazine
Fallaci, the Italian journalist known for her strong
views and critical essays and interviews, angered many of her previous
admirerers on the European left with this essay and her
subsequent book OrianaFallaci/TheRageAndThePride(October2002)
which
her critics maintain are evidence of her betrayal of her earlier
leftist
views and her decided turn to the right.
Fallaci attacks increasing anti-Semitism in Europe and,
in her view, the West's failure to confront radical Islam. "The
Fallaci
Affair" has become a cause celebre in Europe and has
attracted some attention in America. For more on
Fallaci see:ChristopherCaldwell/TheFallaciAffair/Commentary/October2002(Access
to the Caldwell article @ SWTLibrary
requires a valid SWT User Name and Password.) and
RodDreher/Oriana'sScreed/NationalReview/October08.2002
Additional Materials of Interest
Views From The "Right"
Mick
Hume/The anti-imperialism of fools(On Western Hostility To
Israel)/NewStatesman/June17.2002
Josef
Joffe /The Axis of EnvyWhy Israel and the United States both strike the
same European nerve/ForeignPolicy/SeptOct.2002
AndrewSullivan/MemoToEurope:GrowUpOnIraq/SundayTimesOfLondon/August11.2002
Views From The "Left"
John
Newhouse/The Threats America Faces/WorldPolicyJournal/Summer2002
BruceAckerman/TheLegalityOfUsingForce(UNCharter,Treaties,SupremacyClauseOfU.S.Constitution,War-Iraq)/NYT/Sept.21.2002
John
Lewis Gaddis/A Grand Strategy/ForeignPolicy/Nov-Dec.2002
President George W. Bush's national security strategy
could represent the most sweeping shift in U.S. grand strategy since
the
beginning of the Cold War. But its success depends on the willingness
of
the rest of the world to welcome U.S. power with open arms.
A Discussion Of Great Power
Politics
PeterGowan/ACalculusOfPower/New
Left Review/16, July-August 2002
In this review essay Gowan notes that JohnJ.Mearsheimer/TheTragedyOfGreatPowerPolitics
disdains liberal-imperial
rhetoric for a tough-minded theory of ‘offensive
realism’.
Gowan argues that, whatever its merits, the behaviour of states in the
international system cannot be dissociated from the internal dynamics
of
the political orders they protect. This essay offers an
insightful discussion of "realism", "defensive
realism",
reference to Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and more.
Evangelicals & U.S.
Foreign
Policy
NicholasD.Kristof/Following
God Abroad(Evangelicals&U.S.ForeignPolicy)/NYT/May 21, 2002
ColumLynch/IslamicBloc&ChristianRightTeamUpAtUN(DiscomfortForBushAdmin.)/WashingtonPost/June17.2002
Idealism & Realism In
U.S.
Foreign Policy
David
Brooks/A Man On a Gray
Horse(OnReinholdNiebuhr-Idealism&Realism&U.S.ForeignPolicy)/TheAtlantic/September
2002
JudithMiller/Keeping
U.S. No. 1: Is It Wise? Is It New?NYT/October26.2002
A European Philosophical
View
BrunoLatour/WarOfTheWorlds:WhatAboutPeace?/MATRIX/DonIdhe(Ed.)/June25.2002/TranslatedFromFrench
OriginalPaperDeliveredJune25.2002at"Knowledge&Discourse2"/AnIntn'l.Conference/HongKong/25-29June,2002
Bruno
Latour/WarOfTheWorlds:WhatAboutPeace?/PricklyParadigm/Summer/Fall
2002/Publication In English
More On America &
Europe,
America & The World
Demography&TheWest:HalfABillionAmericans?/TheEconomist/August22.2002
FrankBruni/PersistentDropInFertilityReshapesEurope'sFuture/NYT/December26.2002
StevenErlanger/An
American Coffeehouse (or 4) in Vienna/NYT/June 1, 2002
EmilyEakin/AnOldAmour,MoreOffThanOn(French-BashingInU.S.)/NYT/July06.2002
SergeSchmemann/U.S.RetreatsOnDemandsForImmunityInWarCourt(Intn'l.CriminalCourt)/NYT/July11.2002
Missile Defense
MissileDefense:SlidePresentation/BBC/2001
EricSchmitt/BushOrderingMissileShieldsAtSitesInWest(WithLinkToGraph)/NYT/December18.2002
DavidE.Sanger/Bush&PutinToSignTreatyToCutNuclearWarheads(ArticleContainsRelatedLinks)NYT/May14.2002
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Books
Gilles
Kepel/Jihad: The Trail Of Political Islam (Harvard Univ. Press 2002)
Articles
*BernardLewis/TheRootsOfMuslimRage/TheAtlantic/September1990
(Also found @*BernardLewis/TheRootsOfMuslimRage/ReprintedInPolicy/Summer01-02)
BernardLewis/What
Went Wrong?/AtlanticMonthly/January2002
BernardLewis/KnowThyEnemy-DeconstructingOsama:
BinLadenIsStillPopularInTheArabWorld Why?/WSJ/August23.2002
BernardLewis/TheRevoltOfIslam/TheNewYorker/December19.2001
Graham Fuller/The Future Of Political Islam/ForeignAffairs/March-April2002
WalterLaqueur/AFailureOfIntelligence(CriticalReviewEssayOfKepel'sJihad-LaqueurMaintainsKepel&Others
HaveMisread&UnderestimatedIslamism)/TheAtlantic/March2002
FranklinFoer/TheLifeOfALiberalMuslim/TheNewRepublic/November18.2002
KhaledAbouElFadl/ThePlaceOfToleranceInIslam/BostonReview/December2001-January
2002
Philip
Jenkins /The Next Christianity/The Atlantic Monthly/October 2002
We stand at a historical turning point, the author
argues—one
that is as epochal for the Christian world as the original Reformation.
Around the globe Christianity is growing and mutating in ways that
observers
in the West tend not to see. Tumultuous conflicts within Christianity
will
leave a mark deeper than Islam's on the century ahead.
Philip
Jenkins, the author of "The Next Christianity" in the October Atlantic,
argues that most Americans and Europeans are blind to Christianity's
real
future/TheAtlantic/Unbound/Interviews/September 12, 2002
R.ScottApple/ReviewOfPhilipJenkins/TheNextChristendom:TheComingOfGlobalChristianity(Oxford2002)/NYT/May12.2002
JeremyHarding/TheGreatUnleashing(ReviewOfGillesKepel,Jihad:TheTrailOfPolitical
Islam)/LondonReviewOfBooks/July25.2002
JamesPiscatori/TheTurmoilWithin:TheStruggleForTheFutureOfTheIslamicWorld(ReviewEssayOfBernardLewis,What
WentWrong?&
GillesKepel,Jihad:Expansion&DeclineOfTheIslamistMovement)/ForeignAffairs/May-June2002
EdwardSaid/ImpossibleHistories:WhyTheManyIslamsCannotBeSimplified(ReviewOfKarenArmstrong,Islam:AShort
History[2002]&BernardLewis'BookWhatWentWrong?WesternImpact&MiddleEasternResponse[2002]/Harpers/July2002
RobinWright/Jihad:PredictingAnIslamicReformation(ReviewOfGillesKepel,Jihad:TheTrailOfPolitical
Islam-Harvard2002)/NYTBookReviews/May 26, 2002
JohnGray/HowMarxTurnedMuslim/NotAncient,ButModern:IslamistMilitantsHaveWesternRoots/TheIndependentUK/27July2002/
(AReviewEssayOf:
A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack on America by Malise Ruthven,
Granta,
£15, 315pp; Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Keppel;
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq
Ali,Verso,
£15, 342pp.)
MaliseRuthven/RadicalIslam'sFailure:TheTensionBetweenThePiousMiddleClass&TheUrbanPoorInMuslimStatesHasBeenExploited
ByAuthoritarianGovernments(RemarksOnTheViewsOfGillesKeppel&BernardLewis)/Prospect-magazineUK/July2002
Stanley
Kurtz/Root
Causes(ReviewOfBernardLewis'WhatWentWrong?)/PolicyReview/April-May2002
DanielPipes/TheWesternMindOfRadicalIslam/FirstThings/December1995
HusainHaqqani/Islam'sMedievalOutposts/ForeignPolicy/November-December2002
FrancisFukuyama/Can
Any Good Come Of Radical Islam? A modernizing force?
Maybe./WSJ/September
12, 2002
FrancisFukuyama&NadavSamin&Critics:ModernizingIslam/Commentary/December2002
DanielPipes/MoveTowardMilitantChristianity?/JerusalemPost/November27.2002
Daniel
Pipes/Who Is the Enemy?/Commentary/January 2002
TariqAli/Mullahs and Heretics/LondonReviewOfBooks/7 February 2002
Additional Materials Of Interest
DavidZeidan/The
Islamic Fundamentalist View of Life as a Perennial
Battle/MeriaJournal,V.5,N.4/December.2001
DavidWarren/DavidWarrenOnline.com/Wrestling with Islam(PersonalViewOfAJournalist)/December03.2002
NavidKermani/RootsOfTerror:Suicide,Martyrdom,Self-Redemption&Islam/opendemocracy.net/February21.2002
Laura Secor/Which Islam?(OnStephenSchwartz,AuthorOf"TheTwoFacesOfIslam")BostonGlobe/December15.2002
AndrewG.Bostom/A WahhabismProblem:MisleadingHistoricalNegationism/NationalReview/December06.2002
AdamShatz/AnArabPoetWhoDaresToDiffer(OnAdonis)/NYT/July13.2002
MaliseRuthven/CulturalSchizophrenia/opendemocracy.net/September27.2001
CharlesKrauthammer/Violence&Islam/WashingtonPost/December06.2002
RuthBaldwin/The 'Talibanization' of Bangladesh/TheNation/May17.2002
JamesTurnerJohnson/Jihad&JustWar/FirstThings/June-July2002
C.J.Chivers/Uzbek Militants' Decline Provides Clues to U.S./NYTOctober08.2002
RalphPeters/Rolling Back Radical Islam/Parameters/Autumn.2002
JamesCarroll/ReviewOfHosseinNasr'sTheHeartOfIslam(Harper2002-338pp.)/NYTBookReview/Sept.08.2002
WhatWentWrong?/InterviewWithBernardLewis:Bernard
Lewis Discusses the past, present, and future of the Middle
East/PrincetonAlumniWeekly/September
11, 2002
Michael
Steinberger/Lunch with the FT:/ OnRemarksByBernard
LewisWahhabism/FinancialTimes/August11.2002
Daniel J. Wakin/Online in Cairo, With News, Views and 'Fatwa Corner'/NYT/October29.2002
AshutoshVarshney/EthnicConflict&CivicLife:Hindus&MuslimsInIndia(YaleUniv.Press2002)
The Saudis
VictorDavisHanson/OurEnemiesTheSaudis/Commentary/July-August2002
Neil
MacFarquhar/A Few Saudis Defy a Rigid Islam to Debate Their Own
Intolerance/NYT/July12.2002
Gov't.Blocked&FilteredWebSitesInSaudiArabia/cyber.law.harvard
CraigSmith/Saudi
IdlersAttractRadicals&WorryRoyals/NYT/December17.2002
CraigSmith/A
Movement in Saudi Arabia Pushes Toward an Islamic
Ideal/NYT/December09.2002
The World Beauty Contest In
Nigeria
NigeriaStateOfficialsUrgeMuslimsToKillFashionWriter/AgenceFrance-Presse/NYT/November27.2002
AndrewSullivan/Beauties&TheBeasts:IslamistsVs.MissWorld/Salon.com/Nov.27.2002/&AndrewSullivan.com/Nov.28.2002
KathaPollitt/AsMissWorldTurns/TheNation/December23.2002
MarkSteyn/AFatwaOfOne'sOwn(OpinionPieceOnWorldBeautyContestInNigeria&SalmanRushdieAffair)/NationalPost/December05.2002
Salman Rushdie & Other
Targets
Of Islamism
SalmanRushdie/NoMoreFanaticismAsUsual/NYT/November27.2002
MarkSteyn/SatanicWesternResponses(RemarksOnSalmanRushdieAffair)/JerusalemPost/December16.2002
Meredith
Tax/Taslima'sPilgrimage(ReviewOfMeyebela,MyBengaliGirlhood)/TheNation/November18.2002
JulieSalmon/FatwaVictimOrFraud?:MysteryEnshroudsKolaBoof(Sudanese),Writer&InternetPersona/NYT/December11.2002
MarliseSimons/BehindTheVeil:AMuslimWomanSpeaksOut(ASomaliWomanPressesForTheEmancipationOf
MuslimWomenInTheNetherlands )/NYT/November09.2002
Islam & Democracy In
Turkey
DavidRemnick/LetterFromIstanbul:TheExperiment(WillTurkeyBeTheModelForIslamicDemocracy?)/TheNewYorker/Nov.12.2002
BarryRubin/Turkey'sDisillusionWithEurope/JerusalemPost/December24.2002
(The Jerusalem Post requires registration which is free.)
Anti-Semitism In Islam
BernardLewis/MuslimAnti-Semitism/TheMiddleEastQuarterly/June1998
YossefBodansky/Islamic
Anti-Semitism as a Political Instrument/http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jan98/bodansk.htm
EfraimKarsh/The
Long Trail of Arab Anti-Semitism/http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2001/263/essay263.html
MartinKramer/On
the Salience of Islamic Anti-Semitism/Full text of a lecture delivered
at the Institute of Jewish Affairs in London and published in its
"Reports"
series (no. 2, October 1995).
RobertS.Wistrich/MuslimAnti-Semitism:AClear&PresentDanger/TheAmericanJewishCommittee/April2002
DanielPipes/ReviewOfBernardLewis'Book"Semites
and Anti-Semites"(1986)/TheWallStreetJournal/June27.1985
DanielPipes//The
New Anti-Semitism/TheJewishExponent/October16.1997
AndrewSullivan/Protocols/TheNewRepublic/December05.2001
SusanSachs/Anti-SemitismIsDeepeningAmongMuslims/NYT/April27.2002
Ehud
Ya'ari: Not Just Anti-Semitic Lies/JerusalemReport/December16.2002
Daniel
J.Wakin/Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt
TV/NYT/October26.2002
Dhimmis and
Dhimmitude:Bat
Ye'or and others/dhimmi.org
GeorgeF.Will/'Final
Solution' phase 2/JerusalemPost/May08.2002
DavidL.Kertzer/TheModernUseOfAncientLies/NYT/May09.2002
More On Anti-Semitism
RuthWisse/At
the UN It’s Ok to Be Anti-Semitic/WeeklyStandard/April22.2002
MichaelFreund/BritishLecturerJustifiesSuicideBombings(AttacksBernardLewis&MartinKramerAsZionists)J.Post/July10.2002
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Books
Bernard
Lewis/What Went Wrong? Western Impact & Middle Eastern Response
(Oxford
Univ. Press 2002)
Recommended Book
V.
S. Naipaul/Among The Believers: An Islamic Journey (Alfred A. Knopf
1981)
See Naipaul/AmongTheBelievers/TheAtlantic/July1981
for much of the first four chapters of Naipaul's book.
Articles
Samuel
P.Huntington,"TheClashOfCivilizations?"(The original essay) (A
second
look at this classic essay)
EdwardSaid/TheClashOfIgnorance(CriticalViewOfHuntington'sClashOfCivilizationsEssay)TheNation/October22.2001
Michael
Steinberger/A Head-On Collision of Alien
Cultures?/InterviewWithSamuelP.Huntington/NYT/October20.2002
StanleyKurtz/TheFutureOf"History"/FrancisFukayama&SamuelP.Huntington/PolicyReview/June-July2002
*V.S.Naipaul/OurUniversalCivilization/The1990WristonLecture/manhattan-institute.org/html/wl1990.htm
V.S.Naipaul/AmongTheBelievers/TheAtlantic/July1981
This essay includes much of the first four chapters of
Naipaul's book which carries the same title as his essay.
See:V.
S. Naipaul/Among The Believers: An Islamic Journey (Alfred A. Knopf
1981)
The section of the book which consists of these four
chapters (pp.3-82) has the heading: "Iran: The Twin Revolutions".
This section is devoted to Naipaul's observations during his travels in
Iran in the early years of the Islamic Revolution.
AvishaiMargalit,IanBuruma/Occidentalism/TheNewYorkReviewOfBooks/January17.2002
JohahGoldberg/Occidental
Tourist:TravelsInALostArgument/NationalReview/February 4, 2002
Goldberg dissects the clash between Edward Said and
Bernard
Lewis and their respective supporters. He offers his own view of
the meaning of the more recent term "occidentalism" as discussed by
Avishai
Margalit and Ian Buruma in their essay "Occidentalism". Goldberg
charges Margalit and Buruma with uncritcal acceptance of Said's
views.
Referring to their essay, Goldberg says: "... a much-discussed essay in
the January 17 New York Review of Books, titled "Occidentalism,"
simply takes for granted that Orientalism is an irrational, unjustified
animus toward the East."
VictorDavidHanson/Occidentalism/NationalReview/May10.2002
FareedZakaria/ThePoliticsOfRage:WhyDoTheyHateUs?/Newsweek/October15.2001
V.S. Naipaul On Islam &
The
West
V.S.
Naipaul/NYT/Archival Links/June07.1998
LinksToArticles,Essays,&ReviewsOn&ByV.S.Naipaul/BrothersJudd.com
DavidBrooks/TheClosingOfTheIslamicMind/WeeklyStandard/October11.2001
FouadAjami/TheTraveler'sLuck:V.S.Naipaul'sMisunderstandingOfIslam/TheNewRepublic/July13.1998
M.Ignatieff/InTheNameOfTheMostMerciful(ReviewOfNaipaul's"BeyondBelief:IslamicExcursionsAmongTheConvertedPeoples")
NYTBookReview/June07.2002
FouadAjami/InSearchOfIslam(ReviewOfNaipaul'sAmongTheBelievers)/NYT/Books/October25.1981
Andrew
Robinson/V. S. Naipaul, at
70(MadnessInIslam)/TimesOnline.co.UK/August07.2002
MichikoKakataniAn
Opinionated Traveler Drawn to the Developing World(ReviewOfV. S.
Naipaul'sNewBook"TheWriter
and the World"[Knopf-2002]/NYT/August13.2002
DaphneMerkin/ReviewOfV.S.Naipul'sTheWriter&TheWorld/NYT/Sept.01.2002
Naipaul saves his greatest scorn for ''the people who
substitute doctrine for knowledge and irritation for concern, the
revolutionaries
who visit centers of revolution with return air tickets,
the hippies, the people who wish themselves on
societies
more fragile than their own, all those people who in the end do no more
than celebrate their own security.''
BarbaraCrossette/Study
Warns of Stagnation in Arab Societies/NYT/July02.2002
DennisOverbye/HowIslamWon,AndLost,TheLeadInScience/ScienceTimes/NYT/October30.2001
FouadAjami/What the Muslim World Is Watching/NYT/November 18. 2001
RobertD.Kaplan/LookingTheWorldInTheEye(LengthyBackgrounderOnSamuelP.HuntingtonWithLinks)/Atlantic/December
2001
ACollectionOfResponsesToSamuelP.Huntington's"TheClashOfCivilizations?"(IncludingABriefResponseByFouadAjami)
Additional Materials Of Interest
Stanley
Kurtz/Root
Causes(ReviewOfBernardLewis'WhatWentWrong?)/PolicyReview/April-May2002
Islam & Democracy
BernardLewis/Islam&LiberalDemocracy:AHistoricalOverview/JournalOfDemocracy/1996-7.2/[AtMt.Holyoke]
RobinWright/Islam&LiberalDemocracy:TwoVisionsOfReformation/JournalOfDemocracy/1996-7.2/[AtMt.Holyoke]
AbdouFilali-Ansary/Islam&LiberalDemocracy:The
ChallengeOfSecularization/JournalOfDemocracy/1996-7.2/[AtMt.Holyoke]
MohamedElhachmiHamdi/Islam&Liberal
Democracy:LimitsOfTheWesternModel/JournalOfDemocracy/1996-7.2/[AtMt.Holyoke]
LaithKubba/Islam&LiberalDemocracy:RecognizingPluralism/JournalOfDemocracy/1996-7.2/[AtMt.Holyoke]
Stephen
Schwartz/Democracy and Islam After September 11:The case for
optimism/WeeklyStandard/December13.2002
WernerSchiffauer/DemocraticCulture&ExtremistIslam/opendemocracy.net/October16.2002
JamesQ.Wilson/TheReformIslamNeeds/CityJournal/Autumn2002/Vol.12,No.4.
MarkSteyn/SatanicWesternResponses(RemarksOnSalmanRushdieAffair)/JerusalemPost/December16.2002
The Arab World
BarryRubin/TheRealRootsOfArabAnti-Americanism/ForeignAffairs/November-December2002
BarryRubin/TheGreatLeapBackward:TheReturnOfThe"OldMiddleEast"/aijac/July2002
ShlomoAvineri/FailedDemocratizationInTheArabWorld(AvineriMaintiansThatIslamIsNotTheReason)/Dissent/Fall2002
Views On Islam&
The
West
9/11:IslamicWorlds/Debates-LinksToEssaysOnIslam&West/OpenDemocracy.net
IslamInThe21stCentury(LinksToEssays&InterviewsOnIslam&Islam&TheWest)/NewPerspectivesQuarterly/Winter2002
RogerKimball/WhyTheWest?(OnHuntington,
TheMissWorldContestInNigeria&RogerScruton'sTheWest&TheRest)/TheNewCriterion/January03.2003
See: RogerScruton/TheWest&TheRest:Globalization&TheTerroristThreat
Europe & Islam
ChristopherCaldwell/AllahMode:France'sIslamProblem/TheWeeklyStandard/July15.2002
Bruce
Bawer/Tolerating Intolerance: The Challenge of Fundamentalist Islam in
Western Europe/PartisanReview/July19.2002
TheodoreDalrymple/TheBarbariansAtTheGatesOfParis(OnTheLargeImmigrantMuslimPopulation)/CityJournal/Autumn2002
Europe&Islam/SeriesOfArticlest-Debates/opendemocracy.net
MarliseSimons/BehindTheVeil:AMuslimWomanSpeaksOut(ASomaliWomanPressesForTheEmancipationOf
MuslimWomenInTheNetherlands )/NYT/November09.2002
FarrukhDhondy/LondonMuslims"Celebrate"9/11/CityJournal/Summer2002
Islam In America
Daniel
Pipes and Khalid Durán/Faces of American
Islam/PolicyReview/August2002
Religious Identity As Root
Of
Irish Conflict Challenged
Fintan
O'Toole/LesserEvils(ReviewOf
Ireland'sHolyWars:TheStruggleForANation'sSoul,1500-2000
ByMarcusTanner-YaleUniv. Press)/TheNewRepublic/August19&26.2002
O'Toole challenges the book's "misleading" title and the conventional
view
held by Tanner that religious identity is at the root of the Irish
conflict.
In O'Toole's words: "What Ireland shows, again and again, is how the
meaning
of religious identity changes under the pressure of political and
economic
forces."
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V. The State Of Middle East Studies
Books
Martin
Kramer/Ivory Towers On Sand (Washington Institute For Near East Policy
2001)
David
Cannadine/Ornamentalism: How The British Saw Their Empire (Oxford Univ.
Press 2001)
"David Cannadine's Ornamentalism is so
stimulating and original that it will now and forever after be read
hand in hand with Edward Said's Orientalism."
This is the comment of Wm. Roger Louis,
Editor-in-Chief,
The Oxford History of the British Empire @ OxfordUniv.Press:DescriptionOfDavidCannadine'sBookOrnamentalism.
Edward
Said/ Orientalism (Random House 1978)
For a discussion of "postmodernism" and
"postcolonialism",
useful in reading Edward Said's Orientalism and assessing the
intellectual
conflict in which his work has played a role, although he is not
discussed
in this article, see: *EdwardRothstein/MoralRelativityIsAHotTopic?True,Absolutely(WesternReactionToTerrorism&Islamism)/NYT/July13.2002
(This article is recommended as supplementary
reading for Edward Said's Orientalism.)
For an interesting example of early 20th century
European
fiction which reflects the kinds of images of the Orient about which
Edward
Said has written but does so in an unusual fashion,
see: Louis
Couperus,(Revised & Edited by E.M.Beekman-Translated From
Dutch)/The
Hidden Force (Univ. Of Mass. 1985)
In Beekman's introduction to this novel written in 1900
about the Dutch colonial experience in Indonesia, he quotes the Dutch
author,
Couperus, a romantic of his time who believed
in supernatural forces: "I believe that benovolent and
hostile forces float around us right through our ordinary, everyday
existence.
I believe that the Oriental, no matter where he
comes from can command more power over these forces
than
the Westerner who is absorbed by his sobriety, business and making
money."
In his review essay of this book in The
New York Review Of Books/August 11, 1994, Ian Buruma
suggests that "The Hidden Force opens an interesting and fresh angle on
the idea of Orientalism. For Couperus made use of
all the symbols that became the clichés of
East and West, which Edward Said has identified with colonial
apologetics...But
far from using these images of Occident and Orient to justify
colonialism,
Couperus shows the futility of European rule."
(Louis Couperus' The Hidden Force is recommended
as an illustration of the themes discussed in Edward Said's
Orientalism.)
Articles
*Bernard Lewis/"The Question Of Orientalism" in Bernard
Lewis/Islam And The West (Oxford University Press 1993), pp.
99-118.
(Reserve Desk at SWT Library) This essay is
Bernard
Lewis' response to Edward Said's attack against Lewis and other
"orientalists"
. Bernard Lewis and others are discussed in Said's Orientalism.
Lewis' response has been cited by many critics of Edward Said.
Said's
rejoinder to Bernard Lewis and others who, in Said's view, have either
failed to adequately respond to the points he has presented in
Orientalism
or have misunderstood or misappropriated his thesis is found in Said's
"Afterword" to the 1994 edition of Orientalism.
EdwardSaid/ImpossibleHistories:WhyTheManyIslamsCannotBeSimplified(ReviewOfKarenArmstrong,Islam:AShort
History[2002]&BernardLewisWhatWentWrong?/Harpers/July2002
*CharlesP.Freund/2001Nights:TheEndOfTheOrientalistCritique/Reason/December2001
KeithWindschuttle/EdwardSaid's"OrientalismRevisited"/TheNewCriterion/January17.1999
F.GregoryGausseIII/WhoLostMiddleEasternStudies?:TheOrientalistsStrikeBack/ForeignAffairs/March-April2002
DannyPostel/IslamicStudies'YoungTurks/TheChronicleOfHigherEducation/September13.2002
A new generation of scholars deplores problems of
Muslim
world and seeks internal solutions.
Ornamentalism &
Orientalism
PeterHansen/Ornamentalism&Orientalism:VirtualEmpires&ThePoliticsOfKnowledge/JournalOfColonialism&ColonialHistory
Volume 3.1 Spring2002 (Access to this link @ SWTLibrary
requires a valid SWT User Name & Password, available to all SWT
students.)
Reviews Of David
Cannadine's
Ornamentalism
BenjaminSchwarz/ABitOfBunting(ReviewOfDavidCannadine'sBook"Ornamentalism)/TheAtlantic/November2001
Ian
Buruma/Class Acts :A Review of Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their
Empire by David Cannadine/From The New Republic
October11.2001@powells.com/review
P.
J. Marshall/ReviewOf David Cannadine'sOrnamentalism: How the British
Saw
their Empire/@ihrinfo.ac.uk/reviews
KenanMalik/ReviewOfDavidCannadine'sOrnamentlism/kenanmalik.com/reviews
JohnDerbyshire/ReviewOfDavidCannadine'sOrnamentalism/NationalReview/December03.2002
Fouad
Ajami/Married to the Raj/NYT/SundayBookReview/August 26, 2001
Sarah
Lyall/Was the Sahib, Then, Just a Snob?; A Provocative Book Says the
Class
System, Not Racial Pride, Ruled
Brittania(ReviewOfDavidCannadine'sOrnamentalismWithRemarksOnEdwardSaid'sOrientalism)/
NYT/August 25, 2001
A Museum For The British
Empire
AlanRiding/DisplayingTheBritishEmpireForPosterity/NYT/January04.2003
Backgrounder On Bernard
Lewis
JayTolson/ASageForTheAge-PortraitOfBernardLewis/U.S.News.com/December03.2001
Critics OfThe Middle
East
Studies Associatian (MESA) & Middle East Studies On
University
Campuses & An Evaluation Of The Contoversy
DanielPipes/Jihad&TheProfessors/Commentary/November2002
FranklinFoer/SanFransiscoDispatch:Disoriented(November2001MiddleEastStudiesAssoc.Meeting)/NewRepublic/Dec.03.2001
MartinKramer/MESA:
Nothing Learned, Nothing Forgotten/MartinKramer.org/October 2, 2002
MartinKramer/MESACulpa/TheMiddleEastQuarterly/Fall2002
IvoryTowers.org/A
Site Dedicated To Martin Kramer's Book & Articles About It
Stanley Kurtz/The Terror of Islam:John Esposito struggles to sanitize Islamic thought/ReviewOfUnholy War:Terror in the Name of Islam by John L. Esposito/WeeklyStandard/May27.2002 See: JohnEsposito/UnholyWar:TerrorInTheNameOfIslam
Tim Cavanaugh/Campus Comedy:A bogus controversy over McCarthyism continues/Reason/October 28, 2002
Additional Materials Of Interest
Interpreting & Presenting
Islam To The American Public
AlessandraStanley/APortraitOfTheProphetBehindIslam(ReviewOfA2HourPBSDocumentary"Muhammad:LegacyOfAProphet")
/NYT/December18.2002
From the review: "For all its tiptoeing through history, however, the
documentary
is well worth watching both as the first serious attempt to tell the
story
of Muhammad on television and also as a testimony to the
hypersensitivity
of our times."
DavidKlinghoffer/TheJewish-FriendlyKoran/NationalReview/December19.2002
DanielPipes/PBS,RecruitingForIslam/NewYorkPost/December17.2002
Martin
Kramer/Islam
for Viewers Like
You(CritiqueOfPBSVideoEmpireOfFaith)MiddleEastForum/Winter2002
See: Islam:
Empire of Faith
The Larger Intellectual
Conflict
Over Cultural Relativism - An Example
SamuelBrittan/TheNotSoNobleSavage(ReviewOfTheCultureCult,RogerSandall,Westview,2001)/Prospect/October.2001
RogerKimball/ThePerilsOfDesignerTribalism/(ReviewOfTheCultureCult)/TheNewCriterion/April19.2001
PatrickWolfe/TheRemorselessRight(ReviewOf/TheCultureCult)/AustralianBookReview/September2001
RaymondTallist/DreamersOfParadise:TheFailuresOfCulturalRelativism(ReviewEssayOnTheCultureCult)/
TimesLiterarySupplement/August14.2002 From the review: "The result
is a diminution of life chances, and condemnation to a marginalized
existence
of a kind that boutique multiculturalists would not accept for
themselves
and their own children. Anyone reading this book will ever after hear
the
exculpatory phrase “in our culture” with the terror that ...
should
attend the phrase 'for reasons of state'. The ideology of culture
has, one could add, replaced patriotism as the last refuge of a
scoundrel."
See: RogerSandall/TheCultureCult:DesignerTribalism&OtherEssays(Westview2001/)ExcerptsFrombookAccessible
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Books
Bruce
Hoffman/Inside Terrorism (Columbia Univ. Press 1998)
Walter
Reich (ed.)/Origin
OfTerrorism:Psychologies,Ideologies,Theologies,StatesOf
Mind(JohnsHopkinsUniv.Press1990&1998)
Articles
*TheSociology&PsychologyOfTerrorism:WhoBecomesATerrorist&Why?/AReportPreparedUnderAnInteragency
Agreement
ByThe
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress/September 1999
Lee
Harris/Al Qaeda’s Fantasy Ideology/PolicyReview/August.2002
Thinking About Terrorism,
Evil,
And Radical Egalitarianism
JudithShulevitz/There's
Something Wrong With Evil/NYTSundayBookReviewSection/October 6, 2002
RonRosenbaum/DegreesOfEvil:SomeThoughtsOnHitler,BinLaden,&TheHierarchyOfWickedness/Atlantic/February
2002
*EdwardRothstein/MoralRelativityIsAHotTopic?True,Absolutely(WesternReactionToTerrorism&Islamism)/NYT/July13.2002
Jonathan
Rauch/The Mullahs and the Postmodernists/TheAtlantic/January/2002
More On Terrorism/Diverse
Articles
CharlesTilly/Violence,Terror,&PoliticsAsUsual:AnEpochalChangeInTheNatureOfCollectiveViolence/BostonReview/Summer2002
BruceHoffman/InterviewWithPeterBergen:OsamaBinLaden,ArguesPeterBergenInHolyWar,Inc.,UsedCorporateManagement
TechniquesToTurn
AlQaedaIntoTheWorld'sPreeminentTerroristOrganization/Atlantic/January
9,
2002
BillKeller/Nuclear Nightmares/NYTSundayMagazine/May 26, 2002
RobertWright/ARealWarOnTerrorism(A 9 Part Series)/Slate/Sept.03.2002
The Intellectual Conflict
Over
The Nature Of Terrorism
D.D.Guttenplan/IsReadingMiltonUnsafeAtAnySpeed/NYT/December28.2002
An article in The Times Literary Supplement of London
argues that John Milton's verse play "Samson Agonistes"
is "an incitement to terrorism."
For more on this article and the intellectual debate
see:ChristopherShea/WasSampsonATerrorist?/BostonGlobe/December03.2002
Additional Materials Of Interest
NavidKermani/RootsOfTerror:Suicide,Martyrdom,Self-Redemption&Islam/opendemocracy.net/February21.2002
AmirTaheri/TheDeathOfbinLadenism/NYT/July11.2002
Jonathan Rauch/Osama Bin Laden, Meet Your Closest Kin: Karl Marx/National Journal/July 12, 2002
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
LisaTozzi/InSlayingTerrorism,It'sGoodToBeBetterThanBuffy(TheVampireSlayer)/NYT/WeekInReview/August04.2002
AnthonyH.Cordon/BiologicalWarfare&TheBuffyParadigm(pdf)/Sep't.29.2001/http://csis.org/burke/hd/reports/Buffy012902
NeilMacFarquhar/HezbollahBecomesPotentAnti-U.S.Force/NYT/December24.2002
LarryRother/South
America Region Under Watch for Signs of Terrorists/NYT/December15.2002
JonathanGoldberg/BlindEye:AreSouthAmericanCountriesDownplayingTheThreatOfislamicTerrorism?/AmericanProspect/Dec.20.02
The U.S. Intelligence
Community
& Terrorism
SeymourM.Hersh/MissedMessages:Why
the government didn't know what it knew/NewYorker/June03.2002
PatrickE.Tyler/FeelingSecure,U.S.FailedToGraspBinLaden/NYT/Sept.08.2002
Unseen:ASpecialSectionOnIntelligencet/NYT/WeekInReview/Sept.08.2002
TimWeiner/PearlHarborAsPrologue/NYT/WeekInReview/Sept.08.2002
MiltonA.Bearden/WhenPlayingTheField,TheGameGetsRough/NYT/WeekInReview/Sept.08.2002
DexterFilkins/BinLaden'sGuysHaveCloaks&Daggers,Too/NYT/WeekInReview/Sept.08.2002
JamesBamford/EyesInTheSky,EarsToTheWall,AndStillWanting/NYT/WeekInReview/Sept.08.2002
WilliamSafire/TheSpookAwards(EvaluationOfIntelligenceAgencies/CIA,British,French,Russian,,Israeli,Iranian,Saudi,etc.)/July11.2002
America's
intelligence services:Time for a rethink/The Economist/Apr 18th 2002
DavidSanger&ElisabethBumiller/No
Hint of Sept. 11 in Report in August, White House Says/NYT/May 17, 2002
Michael
Hirsh and Michael Isikoff/What Went Wrong:The inside story of the
missed
signals and intelligence failures that raise a chilling question: did
September
11 have to happen?/Newsweek/May 27.2002
William
Saletan/Bum Rap:Bush should have anticipated Sept. 11? Easy for you to
say/slate/May 20, 2002
The classic work on intelligence, missed signals,
and
unheeded warnings is:
RobertaWohstetter/PearlHarbor:Warning
and Decision(StanfordUniv.Press)/WinnerOf1963BancroftAward
See also: *Roberta Wohlstetter, "Cuba And Pearl Harbor:
Hindsight And Foresight", Foreign Affairs, Vol. XLIII, July, 1965, pp.
691-707.
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