Debating the War of Ideas [Paperback]

The War of Ideas is about the fundamental principles of human society. It is a global war: the foes have resorted to arms to protect and promote their worldview. This book brings together some of the most important voices from different partisan, theoretical and religious perspectives to argue and forecast the next phase in the War of Ideas.Debating the War of Ideas; J.Gallagher ?& E.Patterson Jihadism's War of Ideas; W.Phares 'Dangerous Concepts' and the Struggle Within: Reclaiming State and Politics from the Islamists; M.Nawaz Sharing With Equals: Modernity, Fundamentalism, and the Future; K.Armstrong Conceptualizing the Islamist Threat: War and Deceit; R.Ibrahim Debates over Just War and Jihad: Ideas, Interpretations, and Implications Across Cultures; J.Turner Johnson The Clash of Interpretations; A.Meddeb , translated by C.Mandell The Clash of Civilizations?; A.Ahmed Debating Absolutism and Pluralism in Contemporary Islam; A.Afsaruddin Democracy, Religious Freedom, and the War of Ideas; E.Patterson Inter-civilizational Conflict between Value Systems and Concepts of Order: Exploring the Islamic Humanist Potential for a Peace of Ideas; B.Tibi ? The War of Ideas as Therapy: Reflections on a Eureka Moment in the 'War on Terror'; A.El-Affendi Waging Trans-Epistemological Warfare; J.M.Brachman Counter-radicalization and Europe's New Security Dilemma; L.Vidino The Struggle for Islamism in the Levant: The Case of Northern Lebanon; B.Rougier Dissonance and Denial: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War of Ideas; R.Spencer

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of what is at stake in current conflicts between the West and Islamist extremism. From a variety of viewpoints - many of them controversial - the contributors to this volume display in equal measure the barriers to, and possibilities for, dialogue. This important book assists us in evaluating where we have been and where we are going. - Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Sovereignty: God, State lc¥