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Islam Directory
The leading academic websites on Islam reviewed
and catalogued by university experts.
If you're bewildered by anthrax, Afghanistan, and
everything else that’s happened since September 11, you will want
to visit this site created by the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Markle Foundation. They answer important questions in a useful question-and-answer
format.
The NSA archive, hosted by George Washington University,
collects declassified documents (including ones on counterterrorism) that
can enrich current policy debate.
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The leading foreign affairs publication has assembled
a collection of previously published articles, helping to make sense of
the September 11th terrorist attacks.
The Atlantic Monthly features articles, written
between the 1950s and the 1980s, that provide unique perspective on a
nation in conflict.
The September 11th file brings together the New
Yorker's insightful coverage of the terrorist attacks and their
aftermath.
Based out of Stanford's Hoover Institution, the
Hoover Digest reflects on the terrorist attacks and the U.S. response.
The Digest includes comments from former Secretary of State and
Hoover fellow George P. Shultz.
The Endowment, which promotes cooperation between
nations and active U.S. engagement in international affairs, features
publications by important foreign policy experts. Users will find free
articles on fighting terrorism and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Paul Kennedy, Yale Professor and author of The
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, discusses the foreign policy implications
of the Middle East conflict.
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This site archives transcripts of recent speeches
by American, European and Asian government officials. Users will be impressed
by the comprehensive coverage.
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Professor John Lewis Gaddis, a renowned historian of the Cold War period,
is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University
and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
On
September 11th
The editors of Foreign Affairs, James
Hoge, Jr. and Gideon Rose, have assembled over twenty leading experts
to provide a richly textured answer to the question: "How Did
This Happen?"
How can terrorism be contained and ultimately defeated?
Eight scholars offer their perspectives in a volume edited by Strobe Talbot
and Nayan Chanda, both based at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
On
Homeland Security
The government agency - the U.S. National Commission
on National Security / 21st Century - has sponsored three important reports
examining U.S. national security policies and processes. Reports can be
read online.
On
Islam and the Middle East
These three works by Bernard Lewis (Princeton
University) lay the historical foundation necessary for understanding
the contemporary Middle East.
Fouad Ajami, an important commentator on
the Middle East, revisits Arab intellectuals and the battles they
waged to secularize and modernize their nations.
Ahmed Rashid's recent publication (Yale University
Press) presents perhaps the most complete account of the rise of
the Taliban and the politics of Central Asian Republics.
On
Terrorism
This newly-published work by Peter Bergen,
CNN's terrorism expert, offers what many are now calling the definitive
account of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda Network.
How can religion give rise to terrorism? Mark
Juergensmeyer answers this troubling question largely by interviewing
terrorists fighting for different causes worldwide.
Three New York Times journalists reveal
in disturbing detail why bio-warfare and bio-terrorism are fast
becoming America's worst national nightmare.
Paul Pillar, the former deputy chief of the
CIA's Counterterrorist Center, provides a nuanced account of U.S.
counterterrorism policy and the difficult decisions that lie ahead.
On
the Post-Cold War World
Consumerist capitalism v. religious and tribal
fundamentalism. According to Benjamin Barber (Rutgers University),
this emerging conflict now poses the greatest threat to democracy.
John Lewis Gaddis teases out how the language
and metaphors (and ultimately our understanding) of geopolitics
are changing as we enter the 21st century.
Samuel Huntington presciently claimed in his 1996
work that culture - and particularly religion - will replace ideology
as the driving force behind geopolitical conflict. Readers should also
see Robert Kaplan's recent appraisal of Huntington's work,
For some, the end of the Cold War marked the
victory of democracy. For Robert Kaplan, it marked the beginning
of a new period of unsettling global chaos.
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This
program represents Yale University's effort to foster wide-ranging
conversation, debate, and reflection about the events of September
11th.
Lectures
include:
- Gary Hart
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Michael Rubin
- Donald Kagan
- Fareed Zakaria
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Paul Kennedy & Charles Hill
to view full lecture series.
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