Engaging the Muslim world

• Main Author: Cole, Juan Ricardo.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.; Islamic countries > Relations > United States.; United States > Relations > Islamic countries.; United States > Foreign relations > 2001-; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

With clarity and concision, the author disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today, from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the promotion of Islamophobia by the American right, and delivers his informed advice on the best way forward. His unique ability to...

Table of Contents:

• The struggle for Islamic oil
• Muslim activism, Muslim radicalism: telling the two apart
• The Wahhabi myth
• Iraq and Islamophobia: how fearmongering got up a war and kept it going
• Pakistan and Afghanistan beyond the Taliban
• Ayatollahs and caviar: the Iranian challenge.