Global Jihad and America: The Hundred-Year War Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan

The book is a study of terrorism and the ‘war on terror’ that questions the assumption that terrorism by Muslim groups poses the biggest threat to modern civilisation. It argues that state-sponsored terrorism and proxy war, and not terrorist acts by non-state actors and individuals, poses the biggest threat to world peace. It examines factors that contribute to violence such as oppression, the increasing gap between the rich and the poor of the world, the powerless and powerful. Examining the state of affairs in the Middle East, north-west Africa and other places, it uses historical methods and cites various developments and refers to international relations, politics and cultural anthropology to explain the notion of ‘Islam versus the West’ that has been put up and its ramification in the coming decades.