West at War

Bradley C. S. Watson is Philip M. McKenna Chair in American And Western Political Thought and Fellow in Politics and Culture at Saint Vincent College.

• Chapter 1 A Stomach for this Fight? Terrorism and the Western Way of Life and ThoughtPart 2 Islam and the WestChapter 3 A Failure of Imagination: Thinking About Culture, Tradition and Society After 9/11Chapter 4 Understanding Radical IslamChapter 5 Understanding Jihadist Terrorism After 9/11Chapter 6 Western Identities Versus Islamist Terrorism: Liberals and Christians in the New WarChapter 7 The Liberal Regime Under AttackChapter 8 The Rise of Toleration in the West and Its Implications for the War on TerrorPart 9 Ethics and TerrorChapter 10 The Christian Just-War Tradition: Neither Niebuhr nor YoderChapter 11 Ethics and Terror: A Moral Vocabulary for StatesmenChapter 12 What Doth It Profit a Man?: Preserving Liberty and the Rule of Law in the "War on Terror"Part 13 The Western Way of WarfareChapter 14 The War on Terrorism and the Western Way of WarChapter 15 Media Bias in Iraq: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Americans

Bradley C. S. Watson, a political science professor at St. Vincent's College, has skillfully assembled eleven essays that examine the current struggle with Islamic jihad from a philosophical perspective too often lacking other studies. Correctly viewing jihad as an attack on the West and all it stands for, these essays approach the struggle by trying to define the nature of the enemy and the nature of the West, and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of both.