War on Terror in Comparative Perspective

AHMAD GHAZALI Lecturer in International Relations and International Law, Universiti Utara, Malaysia JAMES K. OLIVER Emma Smith Morris Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, USA ROBERT G. PATMAN Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand BAHRAM RAJAEE Director of International and External Relations at the American Political Science AssociationALEXANDRE RATNER ROCHMAN Professor of International Relations, Sao Paulo State University, BrazilINMACULADA C. MARRERO ROCHA Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Granada, SpainJO-ANSIE K. VAN WYK Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa MOHAMMAD YAGHI Executive Director of the Palestinian Center for Mass Communication, Media Analyst at the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, and Program Manager at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in RamallahÁRKA WAISOVÁ Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Vice-Dean for Development at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic SIRIPORN WAJJWALKU Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Chair of Japanese Studies at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand

• Introduction; M.J.Miller & B.Stefanova PART 1: SOURCES OF US FOREIGN POLICY AND THE WAR ON TERROR US Foreign Policy after 9/11: Content and Prospect; J.K.Oliver Uneasy Co-existence: Globalization and the US National Security State in a 'New' Strategic Era; R.G.Patman US Foreign Policy and Radical Islam; B.Rajaee PART 2: THE WAR ON TERROR AND REGIONAL ORDERS: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE Radical Islam, Terrorism and the Impact of September 11th on the Muslim Community; A.Ghazali Disquiet on the Western Front: Sleeper Cells, Transatlantic Rift and the War in Iraq; M.J.Miller Africa and the War on Terrorism; J-A.K.van Wyk US Security Policy and South America after September 11th: A Brazilian Perspective; A.Ratner Rochman The US and Southwest Asia after 9/11: Trends and Flashpoints; B.Rajaee PART 3: THE WAR ON TERROR AND US BILATERAL RELATIONS: STRATEGIC AND SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Case Study of US Foreign Policy after September 11th; M.Yaghi Between Atlanticism and Europeanization: The Dilemma of US-Czech Relations; S.Waisová Spanish-US Security Relations after September 11, 2001; I.C.Marrero Rocha Japan's Response to the US War on Terrorism: External Pressure or National Interests?; S.Wajjwalku The Global War on Terror and New Multilateralism: Whither International Cooperation?; B.Stefanova