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Jihad in the Arabian Sea
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Artikel-Nr:
9780817913748
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.2011
Seiten:
174
Autor:
Camille Pecastaing
Gewicht:
544 g
Format:
218x145x25 mm
Serie:
Hoover Institution Press Publi
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Camille Pecastaing is a senior associate professor of Middle East studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A student of behavioral sciences and historical sociology, his research focuses on the cognitive and emotive foundations of xenophobic political cultures and ethnoreligious violence, using the Muslim world and its European and Asian peripheries as a case study. He has written on political Islam, Islamist terrorism, social change, and globalization. Pecastaing's latest publication is Jihad in the Arabian Sea.
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the challenges for the countries on the shores of the Arabian Sea are many: civil war, piracy, radical Islamism, transnational terrorism, and a real risk of environmental and economic failure on both sides of the strait. Yet its strategic importance as a conduit for maritime trade between Asia and the Mediterranean world is as great as it was when Egyptian pharaohs built a canal between the Nile and the Red Sea. Today, as then, the lands around the Bab el Mandeb are as difficult to pacify as the Red Sea was treacherous to navigate.