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Jason Burke's account revolutionises our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the foundations of the War on Terror.
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In this book, John Mueller contends that our overriding concern about nuclear weapons borders on an obsession unsupported by either history or logic. Drawing on the history of the entire atomic era, Mueller argues that nuclear weapons have never represented much of a threat give…
Since 9/11, al-Qaeda has dominated discussions of national and international security. Yet conflicting assumptions about the nature of the group and the implications of bin Ladin's death abound. Rather than just providing another biography of al-Qaeda, the author forensically ex…
Since 9/11, al-Qaeda has dominated discussions of national and international security. Yet conflicting assumptions about the nature of the group and the implications of bin Ladin's death abound. Rather than just providing another biography of al-Qaeda, the author forensically ex…
"Christina Hellmich forensically examines the most authoritative sources on which the present understanding of al-Qaeda relies, examining the discrepancies between what is reported and what can realistically be known"--Publisher.
Fawaz A. Gerges argues that Al-Qaeda has degenerated into a fractured, marginal body kept alive largely by the self-serving anti-terrorist bureaucracy it helped to spawn. To explain why Al-Qaeda is no longer a threat, he provides a briskly written history of the organization.
In The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, Fawaz Gerges, a public intellectual known widely in the academe and media for his expertise on radical ideologies, including jihadism, argues that the Western powers have become mired in a "terrorism narrative, " stemming from the mistaken belie…