American Security and the Global War on Terror - 9781032199191

Taylor & Francis

American Security and the Global War on TerrorAuthor(s): Edwin Jacob\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032199191, 978-1032199191\nSynopsis\nThis book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of todays geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices.\n\nEdwin Daniel Jacob argues that Americas security practices in the Global War on Terror have been guided by an anachronistic Cold War logic that has subordinated strategy to tactics. Jacob shows that deep-rooted prejudices and presuppositions regarding American exceptionalism have had a disastrous impact on the policies of the United States, not only in dealing with terrorism, but also in seeking to impose American hegemony in the Middle East. Ineffectual security practices of dubious moral character, from rendition and torture to preemptive strikes an.