TY  - BOOK
AU  - Achcar,Gilbert
TI  - The clash of barbarisms: the making of the new world disorder 
SN  - 1594513082 (alk. paper)
AV  - E183.8.M628 A175 2006
U1  - 303.48/273056090511 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boulder
PB  - Paradigm Publishers
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - United States
KW  - Relations
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 2001-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-188) and index; Narcissistic compassion and global spectacle -- Anti-Americanism and 'values' -- Absolute and relative evil -- The uniqueness of 11 September -- Globalization and narcissistic compassion -- The media and the logic of war -- Oil, religion, fanaticism and Frankensteins -- The sorcerer's apprentices -- An Islamic Texas -- Propagating Islamic fundamentalism -- Interpretations of Islamic fundamentalism -- On despotism in Muslim countries -- Neither fascist nor progressive -- Bin Laden's duel with Washington -- Hatred, barbarisms, asymmetry and anomie -- Hatred and strategy -- The clash of barbarisms -- Preventing terrorism -- On asymmetric dominance -- Hegemonic unilateralism -- Apocalyptic terrorism -- Urban violence and anomie -- The barbarism of the 'civilizing mission' (postscript) -- Varieties of perverse enjoyment -- The 'civilizing mission's' new clothes -- The 'democracy paradox' -- Conclusion : Leviathan and the presidents -- Two conceptions of world order -- Postwar choices
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006012652.html
ER  -