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Debating the War of Ideas

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  1. Eric D. Patterson

    1. Georgetown University, USA

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  2. John Gallagher

    1. National Security Council, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Approaching the War of Ideas

    • John Gallagher, Eric D. Patterson
    Pages 1-19

  3. Jihadism’s War on Democracy

    • Walid Phares
    Pages 21-33

  4. “Dangerous Concepts” and the Struggle Within: Reclaiming State and Politics from the Islamists

    • Maajid Nawaz
    Pages 35-53

  5. Sharing with Equals: Modernity, Fundamentalism, and the Future

    • Karen Armstrong
    Pages 55-65

  6. Taqiyya: War and Deceit in Islam

    • Raymond Ibrahim
    Pages 67-81

  7. Debates over Just War and Jihad: Ideas, Interpretations, and Implications across Cultures

    • James Turner Johnson
    Pages 83-99

  8. The War of Ideas: The Role of the “Afterlife”

    • Alan M. Dershowitz
    Pages 101-110

  9. The Clash of Civilizations?

    • Akbar Ahmed
    Pages 111-130

  10. Debating Absolutism and Pluralism in Contemporary Islam

    • Asma Afsaruddin
    Pages 131-142

  11. Democracy, Religion, and the War of Ideas

    • Eric D. Patterson
    Pages 143-156

  12. Inter-civilizational Conflict between Value Systems and Concepts of Order: Exploring the Islamic Humanist Potential for a Peace of Ideas

    • Bassam Tibi
    Pages 157-173

  13. The War of Ideas as Therapy: Reflections on a Eureka Moment in the “War on Terror”

    • Abdelwahab El-Affendi
    Pages 175-193

  14. Waging Trans-epistemological Warfare

    • Jarret M. Brachman
    Pages 195-207

  15. Counter-mdicalization and Europe’s New Security Dilemma

    • Lorenzo Vidino
    Pages 209-220

  16. The Struggle for Islamism in the Levant: The Case of Northern Lebanon

    • Bernard Rougier
    Pages 221-237

  17. Dissonance and Denial: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War of Ideas

    • Robert Spencer
    Pages 239-253

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 255-264
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About this book

The War of Ideas is about the fundamental principles of human society. It is a global war: the foes have resorted to arms to protect and promote their worldview. This book brings together some of the most important voices from different partisan, theoretical and religious perspectives to argue and forecast the next phase in the War of Ideas.

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"This book is a major contribution to our understanding of what is at stake in current conflicts between the West and Islamist extremism. From a variety of viewpoints - many of them controversial - the contributors to this volume display in equal measure the barriers to, and possibilities for, dialogue. This important book assists us in evaluating where we have been and where we are going." - Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Sovereignty: God, State and Self (her Gifford Lectures, 2008)

"Debating the War of Ideas is a welcome contribution to the raging debate in this country and overseas about the rise of religion as a policy driver in the behavior of states and non-state actors.The book brings together for the first time a collection of essays spanning the entire ideological spectrum among academic experts on the nature of the war of ideas among and between religions and religion-based cultures and offers useful strategies suggestions to our policymakers on how to engage different religions, cultures, and civil society institutions rooted in religion." - Emile Nakhleh, author of A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgetown University, USA

    Eric D. Patterson

  • National Security Council, USA

    John Gallagher

About the editors

ERIC D. PATTERSON Ph.D. is Assistant Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs as well as Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University, USA.  
 
JOHN P. GALLGAHER is Director in the Office of Iraq and Afghanistan Affairs at the National Security Council, where he previously served as a 2007-2008 White House Fellow.  

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