Debating the War of Ideas

1. Approaching the War of Ideas
John Gallagher, Eric D. Patterson

2. Jihadism’s War on Democracy
Walid Phares

3. “Dangerous Concepts” and the Struggle Within: Reclaiming State and Politics from the Islamists
Maajid Nawaz

4. Sharing with Equals: Modernity, Fundamentalism, and the Future
Karen Armstrong

5. Taqiyya: War and Deceit in Islam
Raymond Ibrahim

6. Debates over Just War and Jihad: Ideas, Interpretations, and Implications across Cultures
James Turner Johnson

7. The War of Ideas: The Role of the “Afterlife”
Alan M. Dershowitz

8. The Clash of Civilizations?
Akbar Ahmed

9. Debating Absolutism and Pluralism in Contemporary Islam
Asma Afsaruddin

10. Democracy, Religion, and the War of Ideas
Eric D. Patterson

11. Inter-civilizational Conflict between Value Systems and Concepts of Order: Exploring the Islamic Humanist Potential for a Peace of Ideas
Bassam Tibi

12. The War of Ideas as Therapy: Reflections on a Eureka Moment in the “War on Terror”
Abdelwahab El-Affendi

13. Waging Trans-epistemological Warfare
Jarret M. Brachman

14. Counter-mdicalization and Europe’s New Security Dilemma
Lorenzo Vidino

15. The Struggle for Islamism in the Levant: The Case of Northern Lebanon
Bernard Rougier

16. Dissonance and Denial: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War of Ideas
Robert Spencer

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, European Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Diplomacy, Political History, Political Science