- 248 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The war on terror's emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists has placed a premium on physical territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered world of modern states. Denial of Sanctuary highlights the limits of conventional thinking on the subject, and suggests new approaches to understanding this complex and misunderstood feature of modern conflict. Critics of the war on terror have pointed to the futility of waging war on a tactic. Its emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists, rooted primarily in traditional counterinsurgency theory and poorly conceptualized policy statements, has placed a premium on physical territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered world of modern states. To fully understand sanctuaries is to uncover the problems and pitfalls of waging war on locations—exposing the secret lives of multiple hidden worlds, filled with extremists, criminals, soldiers, and spies, with the pious and the profane, with dangers that lie below the surface and in the margins. As this volume makes abundantly clear, such a murky underground is far more complex and varied than the conventional wisdom suggests. Terrorists have hidden in plain sight in modern cities, used advanced communications technology to build virtual refuges, crafted militant enclaves out of the disarray of failed states, flocked to distinctly unsafe insurgent battlespaces, and generally challenged the protective limits of law, citizenship, and state. Denial of Sanctuary brings together top experts in the field to expand the debate; to explore the roots, causes and consequences of the problem; and to clarify our understanding of sanctuary in terrorist thought and practice.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword by Michael F. Scheuer
- Preface
- 1. Cracks in the System: Sanctuary and Terrorism After 9/11
- 2. Critical Reflections on Counter-Sanctuary Discourse
- 3. Netwar, the Modern Geopolitical Imagination, and the Death of the Civilian
- 4. The Failure of al Qaeda Basing Projects from Afghanistan to Iraq
- 5. Constraints and Opportunities in Ungoverned Spaces: The Horn of Africa
- 6. Iraq and the Edges of Terrorist Space
- 7. Terrorist Finance and the Criminal Underground
- 8. Legal Sanctuaries and Predator Strikes in the War on Terror
- 9. Exploring the Role of Virtual Camps
- 10. Hiding in Plain Sight in Londonistan
- 11. From Sanctuaries to Protostates
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors