The Resource The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror, Stephen Holmes
The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror, Stephen Holmes
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The item The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror, Stephen Holmes represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus, detailing the ideological, bureaucratic, electoral and (not least) emotional forces that severely distorted the American understanding of, and response to, the terrorist threat. He also shows how the gratuitous and disastrous shift of attention from al Qaeda to Iraq was shaped by a series of misleading theoretical perspectives on the end of deterrence, the clash of civilizations, humanitarian intervention, unilateralism, democratization, torture, intelligence gathering and wartime expansions of presidential power. The author's breadth of knowledge about the War on Terror leads to conclusions about present-day America that are at once sobering in their depth of reference and inspiring in their global perspective
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 367 pages)
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- Did religious extremism cause 9/11?
- Why military superiority breeds illusions
- How the war was lost
- Radicals trapped in the past
- A self-inflicted wound
- Searching for a new enemy after the Cold War
- Humanitarianism with teeth
- The war of the liberals
- The neo-conservative intifada
- Liberalism strangled by war
- The unilateralist curse
- Battling lawlessness with lawlessness
- The infallibility trap
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780511509834
- Label
- The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror
- Title
- The matador's cape
- Title remainder
- America's reckless response to terror
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Holmes
- Subject
-
- Anti-Americanism
- Bekämpfung
- Diplomatic relations
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Politics and government
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence
- Since 2001
- Terrorism -- Government policy
- Anti-Americanism
- Terrorism -- Religious aspects | Islam
- Terrorism -- Religious aspects | Islam
- Terrorismus
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus, detailing the ideological, bureaucratic, electoral and (not least) emotional forces that severely distorted the American understanding of, and response to, the terrorist threat. He also shows how the gratuitous and disastrous shift of attention from al Qaeda to Iraq was shaped by a series of misleading theoretical perspectives on the end of deterrence, the clash of civilizations, humanitarian intervention, unilateralism, democratization, torture, intelligence gathering and wartime expansions of presidential power. The author's breadth of knowledge about the War on Terror leads to conclusions about present-day America that are at once sobering in their depth of reference and inspiring in their global perspective
- Cataloging source
- MT4IT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Holmes, Stephen
- Dewey number
- 973.931
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6432
- LC item number
- .H653 2007eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Terrorism
- Terrorism
- Anti-Americanism
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- United States
- United States
- HISTORY
- Anti-Americanism
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Diplomatic relations
- Politics and government
- Terrorism
- Terrorism
- United States
- Terrorismus
- Bekämpfung
- USA
- Label
- The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror, Stephen Holmes
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- other
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Did religious extremism cause 9/11? -- Why military superiority breeds illusions -- How the war was lost -- Radicals trapped in the past -- A self-inflicted wound -- Searching for a new enemy after the Cold War -- Humanitarianism with teeth -- The war of the liberals -- The neo-conservative intifada -- Liberalism strangled by war -- The unilateralist curse -- Battling lawlessness with lawlessness -- The infallibility trap -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 252535831
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 367 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780511509834
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- b3a0c70f-f4c0-40fc-aaa9-1721d20ad97a
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)252535831
- Label
- The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror, Stephen Holmes
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- other
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Did religious extremism cause 9/11? -- Why military superiority breeds illusions -- How the war was lost -- Radicals trapped in the past -- A self-inflicted wound -- Searching for a new enemy after the Cold War -- Humanitarianism with teeth -- The war of the liberals -- The neo-conservative intifada -- Liberalism strangled by war -- The unilateralist curse -- Battling lawlessness with lawlessness -- The infallibility trap -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 252535831
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 367 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780511509834
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- b3a0c70f-f4c0-40fc-aaa9-1721d20ad97a
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)252535831
Subject
- Anti-Americanism
- Bekämpfung
- Diplomatic relations
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Politics and government
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence
- Since 2001
- Terrorism -- Government policy
- Anti-Americanism
- Terrorism -- Religious aspects | Islam
- Terrorism -- Religious aspects | Islam
- Terrorismus
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States
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