BookTalk

Combating Jihadism

May 10, 2010 / Philadelphia

Barak Mendelsohn

Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, argues Barak Mendelsohn, jihadist ideology is distinctive in its ambition to overthrow the modern state system and destroy the foundations of world order. How should the U.S. and its allies act to defeat jihadism? This is the subject of Mendelsohn's new book "Combating Jihadism." Mendelsohn is an assistant professor of political science at Haverford College, where he teaches courses on Jihadi movements and on the Middle East. He served in the Israeli army for five years and received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. His essays have appeared in Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) and the Journal of Strategic Studies.

His "Global Terrorism Resource Database" can be found at http://people.haverford.edu/bmendels/. For information about his book, visit: www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=1248619

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