The next front: Southeast Asia and the road to global peace with Islam

A long-tenured and respected Republican senator and a Pulitzer Prize-winning expert on Southeast Asia explain why the U.S. must turn its attention to Southeast Asia, where there is the largest concentration of Muslims in the world, and why that is the place, and Smart Power the strategy to win the war on global terror. They take readers inside the little-known societies of Southeast Asian Islam, introducing them to the world's largest conglomeration of Muslims, apeople much different from the Arabs they have come to know, to some extent, through news reports on the turmoil in the Middle East. Asian Muslims are hearing ever-louder calls to turn from secular forms of government to rigid religion-controlled systems such as those in Saudi Arabia and Iran, which, among others, are funding an onslaught of ultra-conservative religious schools and political organizations in the region. They introduce an eye-opening cast of characters from armed terrorists, active in jungles and cities, and who were trained by Osama bin Laden, and radical clerics, to western-trained officials who plead for Americans to come to their countries to teach, to help start small businesses, and improve health care. The authors then lay out their views on how America can keep fundamentalism in the region from spreading any deeper by putting aside our demands that the nations of Southeast Asia prove their allegiance to U.S. again and again by doing what is ‘good’ for the U.S. and instead America must show that what is good for them is good for us.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-50390-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés