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Turning Point - The Arab World's Marginalization and International Security After 9/11 (Hardcover, New)
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Turning Point - The Arab World's Marginalization and International Security After 9/11 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Praeger Security International
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The danger raised by the terrorist threat is real, existential, and
vital to the United States. But the attacks on 9/11 have been
broadly misunderstood. In assessing the meaning and significance of
"the war on terror," Tschirgi raises many issues related to the
Middle East and American policy toward that area. For example, he
debunks the entire "exceptionalist" approach to the Arab world (the
presumption that Arab societies fail to be fathomed by Western
social science). While Tschirgi stresses the need for resolving the
war on terrorism favorably, he also suggests two broad policy
recommendations. First, he argues that while the United States
should maintain its firm commitment to Israel's preservation as a
Jewish state, it has no corresponding duty to support Israeli
expansionism. U.S.-Israeli relations should proceed on this basis
and should be informed by a greater American reliance on principles
of international law. Second, Tschirgi concludes that an American
withdrawal from Iraq must be effected as early as possible.
Tschirgi's provocative thesis is that the attacks of 9/11 were not
as unique an event as we commonly believe. Rather, they were
understandable--though deplorable--human reactions to a combination
of factors that fueled the Arab world's marginalization and led to
a generalized feeling among the people of that region that the West
(and particularly the United States) posed a mortal threat to their
identity. Employing three case studies of marginalized violent
conflict--Mexico's Zapatista conflict, Egypt's struggle against the
Gama'a al-Islamiyya in Upper Egypt, and Nigeria's fight against the
Ogoni people in the Niger Delta--Tschirgi demonstrates the dynamics
throughwhich "traditional" peoples have in modern times opted to
wage hopeless struggle against objectively more powerful states.
The parallels between the dynamics that informed each of these
situations and those marking the international Muslim insurgency
against the West are striking, as are the significant differences
between the two phenomena. The parallels are found in the mechanics
of marginalization and resistance. The differences lie, first, in
the Muslim insurgency's identification of the West as a total enemy
and the struggle with it as having a zero-sum nature and, second,
in the modern terrorists' potential access to lethal means of mass
destruction. Both the parallels and differences that mark the two
phenomena help deepen a real understanding of the meaning of 9/11.
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