Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat
Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat: Ten years after the 9/11 attacks this book reassesses the effectiveness of the " War on Terror", considers how al-Qaeda and other jihadist movements are faring, explores the impact of wider developments in the Islamic world such as the Arab Spring, and discusses whether all this suggests that a new approach to containing international, especially jihadist, terrorism is needed. Among the book&apos s many richly argued conclusions are that the " War on Terror" and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have brutalised the United States that the jihadist threat is not one, but rather a wide range of separate, unconnected struggles and that al-Qaeda&apos s ideology contains the seeds of its own destruction, in that although many Muslims are content to see the United States worsted, they do not approve of al-Qaeda&apos s violence and are not taken in by the jihadists&apos empty promises of utopia.