A hard day's night? The United States and the Global War on Terrorism
Article Abstract:
The jihadist threat needs to be framed in the context of fundamental changes in the dynamics of the international system is argued in which dynamics have left the United States struggling to conceptually bound and define the jihadist threat in the new security environment. Explanations for this struggle are offered and it is concludes that if not successful in bounding and understanding the threat that the United States might win battles in the Global War on Terrorism, but it can never win the wider war.
Publication Name: Comparative Strategy
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0149-5933
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Why the long war can and cannot be compared to the Cold War
Article Abstract:
The author argues that while there are similarities between the Cold War and the long war, it cannot be concluded that the long war is more dangerous than the Cold War. During the Cold War there was always the threat of a nuclear exchange between the Superpowers, but threat potentials related to the long war are different.
Publication Name: Comparative Strategy
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0149-5933
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Can the United States and Russia reshape the international strategic environment? Arms control in Russia today
- Abstracts: From the girl child to girls' rights. The new bilateralism in the Asia Pacific. Co-operation on money and finance: How important? How likely?
- Abstracts: Brazil as an intermediate state and regional power: Action, choice and responsibilities
- Abstracts: Turkey, the United States and the delusion of geopolitics. Turkey and the EU: The importance of markets. Turkey and Russia: Axis of the excluded?
- Abstracts: Bashar's Syria: The regime and its strategic worldview. Next front? Evolving United States-African strategic relations in the war on terrorism and beyond