Posted in Michael Young, Malik Mufti, Walter Reich, Terminology, Martin Kramer, Geopolitics on Jun 12th, 2008 6 Comments »
From Martin Kramer
Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this headline over an editorial: “The Other Middle East Conflict.” I immediately said to myself: well, I know what the Middle East conflict is—that’s the Israelis and the Palestinians. So what is […]
Posted in Islamism, Mark T. Clark, Michael Horowitz, Bernard Haykel, Terminology, Raymond Ibrahim, Qaeda, Military on May 29th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
At the recent inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), presenter LTC Joseph Myers made an interesting point that deserves further elaboration: that, though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine—such as Clausewitz’s On War, Sun Tzu’s The Art […]
Posted in Islamism, Michael Young, Hillel Fradkin, Terminology, Martin Kramer, Media on Mar 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Hillel Fradkin
According to Philip Bennett, managing editor of the Washington Post, Americans lack a proper understanding of Islam. Contemporary media practice is to blame, and it is the job of the same media to fix it. His immediate proposals: hiring more Muslim journalists, better translations of Arabic words or terms and greater descriptive precision. […]
Posted in Terminology, James R. Russell, Israel, Stephen Peter Rosen, Culture, Iran on Feb 20th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen
I am worried. Last year I did some historical research on the shifts in discourse within British, Japanese, and South African official elites prior to their use of biological weapons. In all these cases, including the deliberate distribution of small pox-infected blankets by the British in North America, the use of […]
Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Michael Horowitz, Adam Garfinkle, Terminology, Terrorism, Qaeda on Feb 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Assaf Moghadam
In recent years, a growing number of analysts and policymakers, have referred to the doctrines guiding Al Qaeda and its associates as an ideology, and appear to have influenced the Bush administration into adopting the term as well. President Bush, for example, has characterized the 9/11 suicide hijackers as men who “kill in […]
Posted in Walter Laqueur, Terminology, Terrorism, Qaeda on Dec 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
From Walter Laqueur
In a recent address, UCLA historian James Gelvin compares Al Qaeda with historical anarchism (1880-1920) and, like some other recent writers, finds great significance in their common features. Such exercises are seldom wholly in vain, but how helpful are they for a better understanding of at least one of the sides in the […]
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