The New Threat: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy HC NEW!

Description: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy The New Threat Jason Burke Hardcover edition with price intact dust jacket, 290 pp Jason Burke is one of the world's leading experts on militant Islam. He embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga (currently at war with ISIS) while still in college. He was hanging out with the Taliban in the late 1990s. He witnessed the bombing of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001 firsthand.With the current emergence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, no one is as well placed as Burke―whose previous books have been chosen as books of the year by The Economist, the Daily Telegraph, and The Independent―to explain this dramatic post-Al Qaeda phase of Islamic militancy. We are now, he argues, entering a new phase of radical violence that is very different from what has gone before, one that is going to redefine the West's relationship with terrorism and the Middle East.ISIS is not “medieval,” as many U.S. national security pundits claim, but, Burke explains, a group whose spectacular acts of terror are a contemporary expression of our highly digitized societies, designed to generate global publicity. In his account, radical Islamic terrorism is not an aberration or “cancer,” as some politicians assert; it is an organic part of the modern world. This book will challenge the preconceptions of many American readers and will be hotly debated in national security circles. Service 24/7. Your purchase will be properly packaged and shipped to ensure a smooth arrival, followed by an email with a tracking #.

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Book Title: New Threat : the Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy

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Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.

Item Length: 8.5 in

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Publication Year: 2015

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

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Author: Jason Burke

Genre: Religion, Political Science, Social Science

Topic: Islamic Studies, Terrorism, Fundamentalism, Religion, Politics & State

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Item Width: 5.7 in

Number of Pages: 290 Pages