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Making Sense of the Senseless
Yale group to co-publish book on terror attacks
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Business New Haven
10/15/2001
By: M.C.B.
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The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Basic Books will co-publish one of the first volumes on last month's terrorist attacks: The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11.
Edited by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda, the book will give voice to eight scholars from Yale and elsewhere who will explore ways terrorism can be contained in the near term and ultimately defeated.
Writers include Abbas Amanat, Paul Bracken, John Lewis Gaddis, Charles Hill, Harold Koh, Paul Kennedy and Maxine Singer. The Age of Terror will be published in the U.S. and U.K. by Basic Books and Perseus Press, respectively, on January 2.
“This book is - in the lucidity, forcefulness and diversity of views it presents - a major, agenda-setting contribution to a debate of vital importance,” said Strobe Talbott, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
Of the book's editors, Yale center director Talbott is a former Time magazine foreign-affairs columnist and deputy secretary of state. Author and journalist Chanda, a former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, is now director of publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
Among the book's contributors:
• Abbas Amanat will cover the Islamic resurgence, from defiance to violence. Amanat teaches history of the modern Middle East at Yale and chairs the Council on Middle East Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
• The Yale School of Management's Paul Bracken will address the need to think anew about what constitutes security and how to ensure it. Bracken specializes in international security and business issues. Bracken's most recent book was Fire in the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age.
• John Lewis Gaddis will write about the urgent need for a new U.S. grand strategy in the aftermath of the Cold War. He is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution.
• Paul Kennedy will present the historical precedents and the implications for the sole remaining superpower. Kennedy is a professor of history and director of international security studies at Yale. His 13 books include the bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
• Harold Koh will discuss the danger that democracy, civil society, human rights and the rule of law face in the campaign against terrorism. He is Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith professor of international law at the Yale Law School. He was previously assistant secretary of state for democracy for human rights and labor and is the author of a number of books.
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization conducts research, writing and teaching with regard to globalization, using Yale faculty and noted scholars and practitioners of international affairs from elsewhere.
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