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| Editors: | Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs James F. Hoge Jr., Editor, Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs |
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| Publisher: | A Foreign Affairs Book |
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Release Date: February 2005
436 pages
ISBN 0876093470
$19.95
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States awoke to find itself at war. If that much was clear, many other things were not—including the identity and nature of the enemy, the location of the battleground, and the strategy and tactics necessary for victory. This collection brings today’s most authoritative thinking to bear on these and other issues at the heart of the nation’s preeminent security challenge.
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Introduction by Gideon Rose
I. The Enemy
“We Have Some Planes”
The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 1-14
“Overview of the Enemy”
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 15
“Outline of the 9/11 Plot”
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 16
“Somebody Else’s Civil War”
Michael Doran, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002
“Inside Al Qaeda’s Hard Drive”
Alan Cullison, The Atlantic Monthly, Sep. 2004
“Why Do They Hate Us?”
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, October 15, 2001
“Terror, Islam, and Democracy”
Ladan & Roya Boroumand, Journal of Democracy, Spring 2002
“Left, Right, and Beyond”
Walter Laqueur, How Did This Happen? pp. 71-82
II. The War
“Counterterrorism Before 9/11”
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 8
“Address to Congress, 9/20/2001”
George W. Bush
“A Flawed Masterpiece”
Michael O’Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2002
“The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan”
Stephen Cohen, Washington Quarterly, Sum. 2003
“Saudi Arabia and the War on Terror”
F. Gregory Gause, from A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism
“Is Southeast Asia the Second Front?”
John Gershman, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002
“Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror”
Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003
“Democracy Promotion”
Paula J. Dobriansky and Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2003
III. The Homefront
“America the Vulnerable”
Stephen E. Flynn, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002
“Fixing Intelligence”
Richard K. Betts, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002
“The Law of War in the War on Terror”
Kenneth Roth, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004
“Combatants or Criminals?”
Ruth Wedgwood & Kenneth Roth, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004
IV. Less or More?
“What’s In A Name?”
Michael Howard, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002
“The Wrong War”
Grenville Byford, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002
“An End to Appeasement”
Max Boot, The Weekly Standard, Feb. 10, 2003
V. The State of Play
“The Protean Enemy”
Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003
“Counterterrorism After Al Qaeda”
Paul Pillar, Washington Quarterly, Sum. 2004
“Not a Diversion”
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard, April 12-19, 2004
“Bush’s Lost Year”
James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2004
“Afghanistan, Iraq: Two Wars Collide”
Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post, October 22, 2004
“There is no better introduction to [this] war—its origins, its perplexities, and its main battles—than this book.”
—Eliot A. Cohen, Director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies
“This collection brings together in one place all of the seminal works on the ‘global war on terror’... Indispensable.”
—Kenneth Pollack, Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution
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James F. Hoge, Jr. is editor of Foreign Affairs.
Gideon Rose is managing editor of Foreign Affairs.
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