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On Metacritic it has a score of 74 out of 100 based on reviews from 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [ 10 ] James M. Lindsay and Anna Shortridge place this on a list of seven documentaries recommendations on 9/11 for the Council on Foreign Relations . [ 11 ]
The book became a best-seller in non-fiction hardcover in the United States, with its author Jane Mayer booked on various news programs for interviews. It later made the New York Times Book Review editors' list of "10 Best Books of 2008" [2] and was nominated for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction. [3]
Political scientist Fareed Zakaria said about the book: "It is now possible to describe a neoconservative foreign policy, and David Frum and Richard Perle's new book, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, is a useful guide to it. There have been many books written by neoconservatives on aspects of the war on terror, but because of the ...
The ‘war on terror’ allowed far-right extremism to flourish at home. “In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the rise of violent jihadism reshaped American politics in ways that created fertile ...
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), [3] is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks of 2001, and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. Some researchers and political scientists have argued that it replaced the Cold War. [4] [5]
The Global War on Terrorism fueled visions of a world in which largescale conventional wars were slipping into irrelevance. By 2006, defense policy in the U.S. had shifted from focusing on hostile ...
The mass media is recognised as playing a significant role in the war on terror, both in regard to perpetuating and shaping particular understandings of the motivations of the United States and its allies in undertaking the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as sustaining cultural perceptions of the global threat from terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
In the 2004 book The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, he argues animosity toward the West is best understood with the decline of the once powerful Ottoman Empire, compounded by the import of western ideas, as seen in Arab socialism, Arab liberalism and Arab secularism.