The age of terror : America and the world after September 11 / edited by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda.

Includes index.

Introduction / Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda -- 1. And Now This: Lessons from the Old Era for the New One / John Lewis Gaddis -- 2. Empowered Through Violence: The Reinventing of Islamic Extremism / Abbas Amanat -- 3. Maintaining American Power: From Injury to Recovery / Paul Kennedy -- 4. A Herculean Task: The Myth and Reality of Arab Terrorism / Charles Hill -- 5. Clashing Civilizations or Mad Mullahs: The United States between Informal and Formal Empire / Niall Ferguson -- 6. Preserving American Values: The Challenge at Home and Abroad / Harold Hongju Koh -- 7. Rethinking the Unthinkable: New Priorities for New National Security / Paul Bracken -- 8. The Challenge to Science: How to Mobilize American Ingenuity / Maxine Singer.

"September 11 marked the beginning of a new era - an age of terror in which counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national governments and international institutions. While the resolve to do whatever necessary to combat terrorism will remain undiminished, a great debate has already begun: What exactly is to be done? The answer will depend, in large measure, on the answer to a prior question: What happened here and why?

In The Age of Terror, an agenda-setting team of experts begins to answer this question and examines the considerations and objectives of policy decisions in post-September 11 America."--BOOK JACKET.