Sense of Siege: The Geopolitic of Islam and the West Book

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Western Historical Perceptions of Islam and Their Geopolitical Legacy	13
	Europe and Asia	14
	Islam and the Loss of Mediterranean Unity	15
	Islam in Europe and Insecure Borderlands	16
	The First Cold War	18
	The Legacy of Colonialism	19
	Recent Images: Suez, Oil, and the Iranian Revolution	21
3	The Muslim Historical and Psychological Perception of the West	27
	Islam as a Christian Heresy	29
	The Shrinking of Islamic Empire	33
	The Era of Imperialism	34
	The Export of Western Values	37
	The Loss of Leadership of the Islamic World	38
	The Establishment of Israel	39
	Western Intervention	41
	Islamic Weakness	43
	The Dilemma of Modernization	44
4	Contemporary Dilemmas Posed to the West by the Islamic World	47
	Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights	47
	Migration and Social Cohesion	50
	Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict	53
	North-South Relations: To Have and Have Not	56
	Islamic Instability as a Threat to World Order	60
	The Islamic Factor in European Security	63
	Proliferation and the North-South Military Balance	64
5	Contemporary Dilemmas Posed to the Islamic World by the West	81
	Political Pressures	81
	Economic Frictions	82
	Islamic Communities Abroad	88
6	The Religious Dimension	99
	The Theological Problem	101
7	Solidarity and Coexistence	109
	Islamic Solidarity - How Likely?	109
	Factors Working Against Muslim Solidarity	113
	Dealing with the Islamist Challenge	119
	Islam as a Catalyst for Have-Not States	124
	Potential Islamist Policies Toward the West	130
8	The Geopolitical Dimension	137
	Areas of Confrontation	137
	The Mediterranean	138
	Turkey's Borders with "Christian" States in the Balkans	139
	Central Asia	141
	China	143
	The Indian Subcontinent	144
	Southeast Asia	146
	Africa	147
	North America	148
9	The Strategic Dimension	151
	A Clash of Strategic Cultures?	151
	Deterrence and Extended Deterrence	154
	Borderlands Revisited	156
	Islam, Third World Conflict, and Western Intervention	159
10	Conclusions	163
	Salience of the Islamic Factor	163
	The Rise of Political Islam	164
	Islam and the West in the International System	166
	Policy Implications	171
	Selected Bibliography	175
	About the Authors	181
	About the Book	182
	Index	183