The thistle and the drone : how America's war on terror became a global war on tribal Islam

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The thistle and the drone : how America's war on terror became a global war on tribal Islam

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how America's war on terror became a global war on tribal Islam

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Akbar Ahmed

Language

eng

Summary

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. Morethan ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result ofthis war: in many nations it has exacerbated the already broken relationship between central governments and the largely rural Muslim tribal societies on the peripheries of both Muslim and non-Muslim nations. The center and the periphery are engaged in a mutually destructive civil war across the globe, a conflict that has been intensified by the w

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N$T

Dewey number

909.83/1

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illustrations
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index present

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DS35.74.U6

LC item number

A37 2013eb

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non fiction

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dictionaries
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