The Belfast academic offers vitally important lessons about government strategies, from Northern Ireland to the Middle East, warning that few campaigns are a complete success
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Does Terrorism Work? A History)
Like H.G. Wells’s
War of the Worlds, Samuel Huntington’s 1993 prediction of a
Class of Civilizations mesmerized many with its suggestion of a coming vortex of cosmic conflict. And yet, in practice, the sheer complexity of Muslim experience in the West has not been reducible to academic soundbites, however elegantly phrased. By contrast, a key strength of
Islam and Security in the West is its stubborn insistence on a close examination of the actual lived experience and grassroots perspectives of ‘frontline’ communities on the Western front of the (so-called) Global War on Terror. As the 21