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Engaging the Muslim World
Juan Cole
Palgrave Macmillan
March 2009
On Sale: March 17, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0230607543
EAN: 9780230607545
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
With clarity and concision, Juan Cole disentangles the key
foreign policy issues that America is grappling with
today--from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the
promotion of Islamophobia by the American right--and
delivers his informed advice on the best way forward. Cole’s
unique ability to take the true Muslim perspective into
account when looking at East-West relations make his
insights well-rounded and prescient as he suggests a course
of action on fundamental issues like religion, oil, war and
peace. With substantive recommendations for the next
administration on how to move forward in key countries such
as Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, Engaging the
Muslim World reveals how we can repair the damage of the
disastrous foreign policy of the last eight years and forge
ahead on a path of peace and prosperity.
Cole argues:* Al-Qaeda is not a mass movement like fascism
or communism but rather a small political cult like the
American far right circles that produced Timothy McVeigh.
* The Muslim world is not a new Soviet Bloc but rather is
full of close allies or potential allies.
* There can be no such thing as American energy
independence, we will need Islamic oil to survive as a
superpower into the next century.
* Iran is not an implacable enemy of the U.S.--it can and
should be fruitfully engaged, which is a necessary step for
American energy security since Tehran can play the spoiler
in the strategic Persian Gulf.
* America's best hope in Iraq is careful, deliberate
military disengagement, rather than either through immediate
withdrawal or a century-long military presence--in other
words, both the Democrat and Republican presidential
candidates are wrong.
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