Europe, the Middle East, and the Global War on Terror
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- ISBN 9783631634240
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2012
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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After 9/11, the (Global) War on Terror started as a military campaign waged against al-Qaeda and other organizations. This campaign was led by the United States though included NATO and a wide assortment of other actors. Originally, it was supposed to last «until every terrorist group of global reach had been found, stopped, and defeated». However, the campaign has been criticized on various grounds by security experts, politicians, scholars, and others. Eventually, Barack Obama and the new US administration declared the War on Terror over. This book deals with various Western perspectives on the campaign and its impacts on the larger Middle East. It includes chapters written by experts on international relations and the Middle East from various institutions (SOAS, University of London; Metropolitan University Prague; Charles University in Prague; and the Institute of International Relations in Prague), all of which gravitate around delving into the complexities of understanding the Global War on Terror and its conclusion.
Ondrej Beranek is the head of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Metropolitan University Prague in the Czech Republic. He holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies from Charles University in Prague. From 2005 to 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and from 2007 to 2009 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University.
