Necessary Engagement (eBook)

Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World

Emile A. Nakhleh (Autor)

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2008
184 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2998-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique balance between in-depth analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, the book injects much-needed wisdom into the public discussion of long-term U.S.-Muslim relations. Intelligence insider Emile Nakhleh argues that an engagement with the Muslim world benefits the national interest of the United States. Therefore, the next administration should discard the terrorism prism through which the country has viewed political Islam since 9/11 and focus instead on the common interests of America and mainstream Muslims. Nakhleh investigates recent U.S. policy toward Islamic nations and offers the new administration a ten-point plan for rebuilding America's relationship with the Muslim world. The author demonstrates that winning over Arabs and Muslims requires a thorough knowledge of Arab and Muslim cultures and languages within our intelligence community, as well as a long-term American commitment of personnel and resources. While the success of these efforts will be incremental and hard to measure, Nakhleh believes that the current low standing of the United States in most Arab and Muslim countries can be reversed. Stressing that effective public diplomacy must be a serious, coordinated effort pursued at the highest political levels, A Necessary Engagement charts a new course for future ties between the United States and the Islamic world.

Autor

Emile Nakhleh was a senior intelligence service officer and director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a PhD in international relations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism • Ahmad ibn Hanbal • Apostasy • Arab identity • Arab–Israeli conflict • arabization • arabs • arab spring • authoritarianism • Battle of Badr • Caliphate • Clash of civilizations • Cold War • Criticism of Islam • culture and society • custodians • De-Ba'athification • English Defence League • Extremism • Fatah • Fatwa • Hadith • HAMAS • Hassan al-Banna • Hizb ut-Tahrir • Ibn Taymiyyah • ijtihad • infidel • Inside the Beltway • Insurgency • Intifada • Islam • Islam and secularism • Islam Hadhari • Islamic art • Islamic culture • Islamic economics • Islamic extremism • Islamic Golden Age • Islamic party • Islamic schools and branches • Islamic State • Islamic Studies • Islamic terrorism • Islamic university • Islamism • Islamization • Jews • Jihadism • Kafir • Kemalism • King Saud University • laïcité • Liberalism • Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah • Muhammad • Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab • Muhammad Shahrur • Mujahideen • Muqtada al-Sadr • Muslim • Muslim Brotherhood • Muslim world • Muslim World League • Muslim youth • national security • Osama bin Laden • Palestinian National Authority • palestinians • People of the Book • Politics of Saudi Arabia • popular sovereignty • Protest vote • Public Diplomacy • Radicalism (historical) • Radicalization • Ramadan • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Religion • Sahih al-Bukhari • Salafi movement • Saudi Arabia • sayyid • Sectarian violence in Iraq • Secularism • Sedition • separation of church and state • Sharia • Shia Islam • Shia–Sunni relations • Sunni Islam • takfir • Tariq Ramadan • terrorism • Theology • The Other Hand • United Arab Emirates • Wahhabism • warfare • Ziba Mir-Hosseini
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2998-4 / 1400829984
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2998-9 / 9781400829989