Stacey Gutkowski

Secular War (eBook, ePUB)

Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How have long-standing and unconscious secular assumptions about religion shaped the post-9/11 climate and its wars? Stacey Gutkowski explores this little-examined, yet crucial, element of British perceptions of and policy towards Jihadism over the last decade, to draw critical conclusions about the relationship between war and the secular. She points to a surprisingly coherent body of secular beliefs that have fuelled policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and counter-terrorism, and that have had mixed results - responsible for both positive strategies and tragic errors. The theory Gutkowski develops on the impact of this secular approach to warfare holds a broader global significance, and cannot be viewed as just a British phenomenon. This book addresses ongoing and critical debates, such as the 'overreach' of Western liberal interventionism in the Middle East, and speaks to policy-makers, security analysts and students of IR, Foreign Policy and Security Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857729521
• Artikelnr.: 47254316

Autorenporträt

Stacey Gutkowski is Lecturer in Conflict/Post-Conflict Studies in the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme at King's College London. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from Cambridge University.