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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Soft Power	Joseph S. Nye	"Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently - and often incorrectly - by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is sof…	OL1027508W
Fogs of war and peace	Robert L. Dilworth	This work focuses on continual global conflict and how American views are being obstructed through a concept referred to as "fogs of war" that distort reality. The authors discuss the root of these p…	OL11958208W
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?	Morgan Spurlock	Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even high…	OL12282739W
Beyond Fundamentalism	Reza Aslan	The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 200…	OL14937140W
Interventions	Noam Chomsky	At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible …	OL15170652W
Obama's Wars	Bob Woodward	Bob Woodward interviewed dozens of high-ranking government officials to compile this record of the discussions and thought processes behind President Obama's decision to increase the American presenc…	OL15390550W
Known and Unknown	Donald Rumsfeld	Donald Rumsfeld tells the story of his career serving as a Congressman, and working for several Presidents in different capacities including two stints as Secretary of Defense. He describes Rumsf…	OL15670836W
The politics of prisoner abuse	David P. Forsythe	"When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David Forsythe's bold analysis of US policies towards terror suspects after …	OL15921681W
High-value target	Edmund J. Hull	Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.S. and Yemeni interests. From 2001 to 2004, when Edmund J. Hull was the American ambassador t…	OL15980042W
America responds to terrorism	Karen A. Feste	"What policy is best for the United States to reduce the threat of Islamic extremist terrorism? Recent American presidents have applied alternative conflict resolution approaches. Clinton practiced c…	OL16296275W
Inside the Pakistan Army	Carey Schofield	"The Pakistan Army is at the forefront of the West's war on terror, policing the border with Afghanistan and the lawless tribal agencies where Osama bin Laden is said to be hiding. Since October 2009…	OL16606306W
A nation challenged	Mitchel Levitas	"A Nation Challenged records the full range of events from the moment of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the anthrax scare, the war in Afghanistan, the quick fall …	OL18516983W
Counter-terrorism, aid, and civil society	Jude Howell	"This book examines the effects of the increasing securitization of aid on civil societies in the context of the shifting global politics post-9/11"--Provided by publisher.	OL18769072W
Emergency presidential power	Chris Edelson	Annotation	OL19705697W
Hold Everything Dear	John Berger	John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold E…	OL1980222W
Mainstreaming torture	Rebecca Gordon	"The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in this country had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some people i…	OL19992400W
The Good Fight	Peter Beinart	Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could …	OL276539W
Bad advice	Harold H. Bruff	From wiretapping American citizens to waterboarding foreign prisoners, the Bush administration has triggered an uproar over its tactics in the War on Terror--and over its justifications for using the…	OL5841231W
Law and the long war	Benjamin Wittes	Six years after the September 11 attacks, America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing not to Al Qaeda but to its own failure to construct a set of laws that will prot…	OL6215685W
World War IV	Norman Podhoretz	For almost half a century--as a magazine editor and as the author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds of articles--Norman Podhoretz has helped drive the central political and intellectual deba…	OL892068W