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CHARLES HILL: TRIAL OF A THOUSAND YEARS:WORLD ORDER AND ISLAMISM

STUDY GUIDE, 2012Steven Alan Samson

PROLOGUE BY FOUAD AJAMI

Outline

A. HOOVER INSTITUTION (ix-xii)1. Cold War2. Islamism3. Islamic Emirate

a. Pursuit of the caliphate4. Crossroads Civilization

5. War of Ideasa. Three layers of danger

1) Failed states2) Revolutionary states3) Enabler regimes

b. Greatest strategic challenge6. Scholarship on Contemporary Islam

a. Second generation assessmentb. Need to engage Arabs and Muslims in the contest of ideasc. Need for primersd. Need to be unsparing in depicting the travails of modern Islam

B. GREAT DEBATE ABOUT THE PLACE OF THE STATE IN THE MODERN WORLD (xii-xv)1. G. W. F. Hegel: State as an Instrument of God

2. Sayyid Qutb: Muslim Has No Nationality3. Treaty of Westphalia Made the State4. Muslim States Are Seeking Admission5. War of Islamism against the Nation-State System6. Islamism Is Only the Latest Challenge

a. French Revolution1) Edmund Burkes view of revolutionary France as state and sect

b. Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany7. Mighty Muslim States of the Past

a. Ottoman power falteredb. Fall of the caliphate, 1924

8. Order of Statesa. Intellectual vigilance and poise

9. The Islamist Sect Theories

Review

Pursuit of the caliphate three layers of danger Sayyid QutbTreaty of Westphalia nation-state system Edmund Burke: France as state and sect

PROLOGUE


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Outline

A. ON A SHIP TO OMAN (3-6)

1. Tomb of Joba. Islamic Jobb. Judeo-Christian Job

2. Oswald Spenglera. Magian (ancient Mesopotamian) idea of Grace vs. Faustian (Western) idea of

Contritionb. Pseudomorphosis

1) Suppression of a culture by an alien power so that it cannot develop itsself-consciousness, giving rise to a hate that grows to be monstrous

c. Great Awakening of Peoples [Karl Jaspers called it the Axial Age but believed itstarted earlier]1) Alexander the Great laid down a thin sheet of Classical civilization

[Hellenism] that spread to Turkestan and India [cf. Vishal Mangalwadi]

2) Characteristically Magian elements were squeezed into alien forms anddistorted by the logic of a classical civilization [a reverse flow from theEast also occurs with the rise of Stoicism, Manichaeism, Gnosticism]

3) Classical religion consisted of local cults; the creed of Magian religionknew no early frontier (universal in scope) but was not allowed itsnatural, unbounded space [i.e., it was coiled like a spring or a serpent]

d. The rise of Islam and its swift successes is the emancipation of Magian mankinde. Job becomes Ayoub

B. ON THE TRAIN TO THE ARMY-NAVY GAME (6-7)1. Henry Kissinger and Elmo Zumwalt

a. Kissinger spoke about Americas decline and his task of securing the best dealwe could get in our weakening condition [cf. convergence theory]

b. Kissingers masters thesis was on Spengler and The Meaning of History

c. Spenglers declinism has also affected the Arab-Islamic world by a convictionthat the Arab world will cast off the Western yoke and retrieve its usurped role ofworld-historical leadership [cf. Nietzsches return of the repressed]

Review

two conceptions of Job Oswald Spengler Magian vs. Faustian idealspseudomorphosis Great Awakening of Peoples Western declinism

CHAPTER ONE: TWO WORLD ORDERS

Outline

A. INTRODUCTION (9-10)1. Tel al-Amarna, 1887

a. Akhenatenb. Amarnaicc. Common practices

2. Pre-modern Chinaa. Spring and Autumn Period [introduction of the Ba]b. Tribute system


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3. Christendoma. Universal systemb. Founding of Constantinople, 330 AD [Second Rome]c. Coronation of Otto I, 962 [Holy Roman Empire]

4. Caliphatea. Death of the Prophet Muhammad, 632 AD

B. CHRISTENDOM AND CALIPHATE1. Two World Systems

a. Innocent III2. Holy Roman Empire

a. Charlemagne [Western Roman Emperor]1) Reader of St. Augustines The City of God

b. Dantes De Monarchia1) Separation of church and state

c. Distinction between spiritual and temporal authority: Pope is the vicar of God3. Caliphate

a. Office extracted from the Hadithb. Duty of subject is to obeyc. Submission to sharia

C. DUALITY OR UNITY?1. Dualism2. Western Schizophrenia [cf. Oswald Spenglers Faustian culture]

a. Sayyid Qutbb. Judaic binary classificationsc. Platos Socratic dialogued. Aristotles modes

3. Raphaels School of Athens: Duality of Plato [one finger pointed upward] and Aristotle[fingers spread forward on an earthly plane]

4. Augustine: City of God vs. City of Man5. Thomas Aquinas: Synthesis of Plato and Aristotle6. Islamic Purist Monotheism

a. Uniate focusb. Early flourishingc. Aristotled. Astonishing early achievements

7. Possible Causes of Its Declinea. Loss of territorial controlb. Decadencec. al-Ghazali [Algazel]

1) Proof of Islamd. Algazel as the anti-Aquinas

8. Systematic Study of the Caliphates Rolea. Qurayshi membershipb. Election by predecessor

9. Closing of the Muslim Mind10. Christian Fear and Hatred of Islam

a. Dante: Muhammad as a sower of schism11. Francis of Assisi12. Crusades vs. Mongol Invasions

a. Hulagu sacks Baghdad, 1258D. THE TURK AND ORIENTAL DESPOTISM

1. Arrival of the Turksa. Osmanb. Murad I: Byzantine tribute exactedc. Field of the Blackbirds (Kosovo), 1389


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2. Manuel II Palaeologus3. 1453 Fall of Constantinople4. Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way George Berkeley

a. Transfer of empire and culture1) But the second Rome fell more than 1100 years after it was built2) Culture (studii) conferred legitimacy

5. Islam Identified with the Ottoman Empirea. Muhammad as the Anti-Christb. From Murad II to Selim Ic. Turkish caliphate

1) No more scholarly assertions that the caliph must be a Quayshi6. Topkapi Palace

a. Platos Republicas a modelb. Lybyer on the Janissary Corpsc. Idea of an exotic, despotic, Eastern utopiad. Others regimes modeled on a centralizing western ideology

7. 16C Image of The Red Applea. Abbot of Otrantos apocalyptic vision

8. Rumors of a Muslim Threat to Malta, 1565

a. Philip IIb. Argo: royal war galley

9. Holy League, 1571a. Don John of Austria and the Battle of Lepantob. G. K. Chestertons Lepantoc. Cervantesd. Don Quixote

10. No Follow-Up to the Victory11. Three Imperial Muslim Courts

a. Sunni-Shia conflictb. Safavids in Persia

12. Oriental Despotisma. Venetian Empireb. Sublime Portec. Fundamental incompatibilityd. Montesquieus Spirit of the Laws: Wests rejection of oriental despotism

1) Rejection of polygamy, elevation of idea of womanhoodE. THREE WORLD-HISTORICAL EVENTS

1. Rise of Islama. Repudiation of Roman and Persian world orders

2. Exploration of the Globea. Indian Oceanb. Islamic world trading systemc. Portuguese forts along the littorald. The Amiriyae. Seas seen as whole, the world as one

3. International State System

F. TODAYS PROBLEM1. Islam Has Become a Uniate, Unsuccessful, Partly-Adversarial Participant2. Global Renaissance

a. Complex cross-pollinationb. Circulation of people

3. Images of Muslims Proliferated4. Paradox: Recognition of Mankinds Diversity

a. System designed to accommodate such diversity5. Bartolom de las Casas vs. Juan Gins de Sepulveda


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a. Francisco de VitoriaOn the Indiesand the University of Salamancab. Natural law argumentc. Precursor to beliefs in universal human rights

Review

Tel al-Amarna Spring and Autumn Period CharlemagneWestern schizophrenia al-Ghazali HulaguField of the Blackbirds fall of Constantinople Platos RepublicOttoman Ruling Institution Don John of Austria Battle of LepantoSunni-Shia schism oriental despotism Sublime PorteMontesquieus Spirit of Laws polygamy ideal of womanhoodBartolom de las Casas Francisco de Vitoria natural law argument

CHAPTER TWO: THE MODERN ORDERING TAKES SHAPE

Outline

A. THIRTY YEARS WAR1. Most Destructive of the Wars of Religion2. Transition from Feudal to Modern Warfare

a. Grotiusb. Warring parties legitimate states

3. Doctrine of the Equality of States4. Joining of Unity and Diversity

B. 16481. Treaty of Westphalia2. Idea for World Order: Procedural Rather Than Substantive3. Basic Elements

a. Religious arguments would not be brought to the bargaining tableb. State as the fundamental entityc. Encouragement of norms, laws and understandings

1) No divine source, only positive agreementsd. Process aimed at reducing the horrors of war

4. One Big Hedgehog Ideaa. State must abide by a few requirementsb. Who cannot be accommodated

C. THE ENLIGHTENMENT VIEWS THE PROPHET1. How the Enlightenment Strengthened the System via Immanuel Kant

a. Rejection of superstition1) No more need for revelation

b. Government by consent of the governed2. Baron Montesquieu

a. Spirit of the Laws

b. Dimitrie Cantemirc. Edward Gibbon and Sir William Jones, the first of the great Orientalists

3. Islamic Thought Became a Way to Criticize Christianitya. Muhammad as eminence grise[originally Franois Leclerc du Tremblay, who

was Cardinal Richelieus agent and confidante during the Thirty Years War]1) Anti-clerical touchstone: Muhammad portrayed by Enlightenment

figures as an exemplar of liberty, tolerance, and social justice][NOTE: This strategy is still used to leverage the dismantling of the Christianfoundations of the West. Roger Scruton calls it the culture of repudiation]


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b. Voltaires volte face[about face, reversal]c. Edward Gibbon

4. Edward Gibbon: Islam Is Rooted in Reasona. Testimony to the unity of Godb. Islam as admirable counter-example to Christianity

5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Coy Infatuation with Islam

6. Mozarts Abduction from the Seraglio7. Washington Irving

a. Tales of the Alhambrab. Mahomet and his successorsc. Mohammad as a literary geniusd. Flight to Medina (hijab)e. Loss of the caliphate of Cordoba, 1031f. Admirationg. Seemingly irresistible universal monotheistic system of world order

1) Overreaching and decline2) Jesus

8. Herman MelvilleD. THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE

1. Ottoman Empirea. Suleiman the Magnificent

1) Failure to take Vienna, 1529b. Two separate universes

2. Modern Overlaya. Oswald Spenglers pseudomorphosis

3. Elevation of the Peace of Westphaliaa. G. W. F. Hegels the state is Gods Divine Plan

4. Factor in the Balance of Powera. Ottoman accepted but refused to send embassies

5. Ottoman Sway over Islama. Turcophobia recedes

6. Principal Geostrategic Issue: Russias Dismemberment of the Ottoman Empirea. Crimean War

7. Dispute over Holy Places in Jerusalem, 1850a. Russian troops in SE Europeb. Eastern Questionc. Left unanswered by the Crimean War

8. Russian Preparations for War with Ottoman Turkeya. Object: control over the Turkish Straits

9. Treaty of Paris, 1856a. Empire made a provisional member of European societyb. Requirement: equality of all subjectsc. Sublime Porte moved to the new palace

10. Preamblea. Integrity of the Ottoman Empire guaranteed

11. Turkish Religious Sway over Islam

a. Sultan as the vice regent of Allahb. 1774 treaty between Catherine II (the Great) and Abdul Hamid I

1) Catherine recognized as patroness over Orthodox Christiansc. Constitution of 1876: Sick Man of Europe

12. Treaty of Berlin, 1878a. Balkan independence under Ottoman suzerainty

1) Muslim agitation over loss of par of Dar al-Islamb. Sultan sends emissaries to the East

13. Young Turk Revolution, 1908: Abdul Hamid Deposed


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a. Rival Abbasid caliphate in 16C Egyptb. Puppet Ottoman caliph

14. Accession of Wilhelm IIa. Visit to Constantinopleb. Lord Salisburys proposalc. Russian plan to seize Constantinople

d. Hajji Wilhelm15. John Buchans Greenmantle16. WWI Alliance with Germany

a. Jihad17. Hew Strachan

Review

Treaty of Westphalia Baron Montesquieu MuhammadEnlightenment anti-clericalism Edward Gibbon Suleiman the MagnificentEastern Question Turkish Straits Treaty of ParisTreaty of Berlin Young Turk Revolution Wilhelm IIWWIjihad

CHAPTER THREE: THE WARS ON WORLD ORDER

Outline

A. INTRODUCTION1. Every Major War Has Been an Attempt to Replace the Westphalia System

B. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEONIC WARS1. Edmund Burke

a. Overthrow of established order and the resort to terrorb. Napoleon Bonaparte

2. G. W. F. Hegel: Advent of Reason and Freedom3. Expeditionary Force to Egypt

a. Object: sever British link to Indiab. Napoleon as a sultan [cf. Frederick II Hohenstaufen, 13C Holy Roman Emperor]

4. Ottoman Sultan Declared Jihada. Mamluks under Murad Bey

1) Napoleon sought to lead an Arab revolt against the Turksb. Acrec. Battle of the Nile

5. Napoleons Egyptian Campaign Was a Triumph in Cultural Affairsa. Rosetta Stone

1) Jean-Franois Champollionb. Watershed event: first armed inroad of the modern West into the Middle East

6. Napoleon Crowned Emperor of the French

a. Idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel and the Battle of Jenab. Emperor as the world soulc. Idea of the Great Man [English Hegelian, Thomas Carlyle, developed the great

man theory of historyd. Hegels end of history: A marriage of two ideas

1) Jean-Jacques Rousseaus revolutionary idea: All establishedgovernment is illegitimate and unjust

2) Napoleons idea of a new, centralized state to create a universal empireC. THE TAIPING REBELLION, 1851-1866


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1. Ching Dynasty2. China: Self-absorbed and Self-sufficient3. Conflict Focused on Trade

a. Mercantilism: China and Europe pursued similar economic strategiesb. Adam Smiths free trade: China saw the inflow of British silver for tea as tribute,

not something that required reciprocation

c. British East India Companys Opium trade: British merchants re-sold it in China,creating a high demand

d. Opium War, 1839-1842: British seized ports as far north as Shanghaie. Treaty of Nanking, 1842: First of the unequal treaties in which China ceded five

treaty ports to Britain and handed over Hong Kong4. Taiping Rebellion

a. Hung Hsiu-chuanb. Tai-ping Tien-kuoc. Attack on Shanghai

5. Lord Elgina. Courts refusal to allow diplomats in Pekingb. Summer palace burned:c. Britain had dragged China into the international system, but it was not ofit

6. Boxer Rebellion of 1900a. Aimed at the diplomatic quarter: violent repudiation of the systemb. American-led Boxer Relief expeditionb. Pivotal three-way conflict between Imperial China, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,

and the British Empire on behalf of the international systemD. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND THE UTAH WAR

1. Obligation to Conform to Civilized Normsa. Issues of slavery and polygamy

2. Slowly Expanding International Consensus on Normsa. Siam

1) Chulalongkorn (Rama IV) freed his subjects, 18683. Americas Irrepressible Conflict

a. Slavery regarded as uncivilized4. U.S. Aloofness from International System during early independence

a. No embassiesb. Ministers and legations

5. Antebellum Southa. Tocqueville on slaveryb. Lewis Simpsonc. Centrality of slavery to the Souths national identity

6. Failure of the CSA to Secure Diplomatic Recognitiona. Britain recognized South only as a belligerent

7. Mormon Politya. Militiab. James Gordon Bennettc. Nauvoo polity: Joseph Smith dispatched ambassadors to Europed. Republican Party platform, 1856: repudiation of polygamy and slavery

e. Utah War, 1857f. Anti-bigamy legislation [Reynoldsv. United States, 1878, outlawed polygamy and

cited Francis Liebers writings in support of the decision]8. Second Hague Conference [Liebers Civil War code of military conduct was adopted]

E. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, 1870-18711. Lord Byrons United Nations

a. Congress of Vienna1) Perfect anti-revolutionary opportunity to refill the vessel of the

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2. Consequences of This Attack on the Westphalian System by the Ruling Dynasties of theContinenta. Precursor to the world warsb. Communist revolution of the masses

3. Birth of Germany in 1871a. Germany emerged from the Thirty Years War as an agglomeration of small

political entitiesb. National unification of Germany as an imperial statec. Bismarck seized the opportunity presented by the Spanish succession crisis to

alarm France that it might revive the Holy Roman Empire as a Protestant realmd. Background of Henry Jamess novel, The American

4. [Ems Dispatch]a. Bismarck lured the French into a verbal trapb. French mobilization for warc. Unification by Bismarck and the army, rather than by the people under liberal

leaders, using instruments that were the liberalss source of strength5. New Movement Following the Battle of Solferino

a. Henri Dunant1) Professional military standards

b. Francs-tireurs: guerrilla (small war) fighters [Lieber also wrote on this subject]c. Asymmetrical warfare involving illegal combatantsd. Upside-down character of the Islamist wars: Guerrilla fighters are now accorded

much the same protection as professionals6. Paris Commune of 1871

a. Red flags everywhereb. Birth of the Communist Internationalec. Attack from both sides of the political spectrum

7. Consequences of the Wara. Rise of united Germany

8. Berlin to Baghdad Railway: Reached Ankara in 1892F. THE GREAT WAR

1. T. E. Lawrencea. Arab Revolt: Began under false pretensesb. Paris Peace Conferencec. Sykes-Picot Agreement

2. Bolshevik Revolutiona. Denunciation of secret agreementsb. Broken promises

1) Hussein-McMahon correspondence2) Balfour Declaration

3. Ottoman Empire Disappeared from Mapsa. League of Nations mandate systemb. Middle East brought into the Westphalian system

4. The Reasons for Wara. Preservation of the British Empireb. Germans sought to break out of the world order

1) Imposed by a Pax Britannica and Frances mission civilisatrice2) For Germany the war was about Geist, spirit: the life-giving principle of a

superior culture5. Grinding Trench Warfare Ended Dreams6. Three New Ideas

a. Dysfunctional Middle East born of the ruined Ottoman Empireb. Bolshevik Revolution to build the New Socialist Order led by the international

proletariatc. Admission of the United States to the club of Westphalian-style states


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7. Woodrow Wilsona. Colonel Edward Houseb. Fourteen Points

8. American Program for the Revitalization of the Westphalian Systema. A basis for rejecting imperialismb. League of Nations

c. Right of self-determinationd. Enlisted democracy in the cause of world order

9. Abdication of Wilhelm II10. Messianic Hope11. Versailles Treaty

a. Failure of Wilsons grand planb. His idealism became a beacon for liberal internationalism

12. Decline of Imperialism13. Mehmet IV Deposed

a. New caliph was neither a Qurayshi nor bearer of the sword of Islam14. Caliphate Abolished

a. Indian intervention15. King Hussein of the Hijaz [keeper of the holy places at Mecca and Medina]

a. Egypts and Indias objection1) An Islamic Caliphate Congress was favored

b. Husseins short-lived claim16. Intrigues and Stratagems

a. Sir Reginald Wingate originally broached the ideab. Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi, chief Qadiof the Sudan, pressed a claim for

Egypts King Fuad17. Congress to Choose a Caliph

a. Support for Ibn Saud who had deposed Hussein and unified Arabiab. al-Azhar declarationc. Stalemate

18. Two World Historical Consequencesa. League of Nations mandates filled the vacuumb. Islamist war on world order

19. Rise of Atavistic Imperialism to Challenge the World OrderG. WORLD WAR II: IMPERIAL JAPAN AND THE THIRD REICH

1. Aggressors Plans for the International Systema. Each had a well-defined world strategy intended to destroy and supplant the

Westphalian state structure2. Japan

a. East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphereb. Meiji Restoration, 1868 [end of shogunate]c. Japanese conformity to international requirements as early as 1899d. Victory in Russo-Japanese War, 1904: apans arrival as a world powere. Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905: Diplomatic sophistication in peacemakingf. End of the Meiji Restoration, 1912

1) Japan almost regarded itself as a different species of humanity by 1912

(Edwin Reischauer)g. Installation of Emperor Hirohito, 1926, as chief Shinto priest, descendant of the

sun goddess, and divine ruler of an eternal and immutable polity3. 1929 World Economic Crash

a. Emperors command of the militaryb. Ideology of ko do: Liberation of japan from all the isms of the modern worldc. Holy war to rule all Asiad. Manchukuo: Bid for recognition as a legitimate statee. Rejection of the League


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4. Grand Strategy: to Create a New Order of East Asiaa. Racial ideology: Japanese the superior raceb. Axis Treaty, 1936c. Vision of a three sphere world order: Germany, Japan, United States

5. Hitlers Grand Strategya. Crisis over Danzig

1) Free city status2) Appeal to the Hague3) Oblique reference to Magna Carta: nulla poena sine lege

[No punishment without a law], which is a subset of nullum crimen, nullapoena sine praevia lege poenali[No crime, no punishment without aprevious legal penalty], which prohibits ex post facto laws.a) Nazi version: nulla crimen sine poena

[No crime without a punishment]4) Banishment of rule of law5) Reversion to barbarism: Sir Henry Maines from status to contract

(dramatized by Aeschyluss Oresteia)reverts again to status6) World Courts Decision in favor of Danzig7) Hitlers demand for Danzig led to the German invasion of Poland

6. Atavistic Nazi Ideologya. Millenarian [Chiliastic ]b. Paranoidc. Apocalyptic and Eschatological: Prevalence of the word finalld. Historys climactic Third Status [cf. Joachimite heresy]

7. Purpose of the Nazi Partya. Lure the working class away from international communism

8. Nazi Germany Was Not a Statea. It was the organic community [Kultur] of the master race [bee hive or anthill]b. Raumpolitikerc. Kleinstatten Gerumpeld. Lebensraume. Vision of the Heerfhrer Europasf. End of the Westphalia system

9. Hajj Amin al-Husseinia. Grand Mufti of Jerusalemb. Baath movementc. Rommels drive into Egyptd. Meeting with Hitler, 1941

10. Holocausta. Jews were never absent from Israelb. 19C Pre-state Yishuv

11. Reasons for the Modern State of Israela. Its founders were committed to the Westphalian systemb. Employed diplomacy and power to get international recognitionc. Israel accepted the requisite normsd. Window of opportunity in 1948

12. Destruction of Hitlers Grand Designa. Al-Husseini was weak and ineffectualb. But todays Arab media culture is drenched in Nazi-style anti-Semitism

13. Common Aims of Nazism and Islamism [Jamie Glazov Extends This Analysis to LeftistPolitics More Generally in United in Hate]a. Eradicating Jewsb. New world order

H. THE COLD WAR1. Comintern


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a. Axis pact directed against itb. Ideologically most comprehensive dangerc. Henry Kissinger: Nothing like the Soviet Union since the French Revolutiond. Communist ideology rejected every core principle of the Westphalian system

2. Dictates of Marxism-Leninisma. State must be smashed

b. International law: tool of the capitalistsc. Western norms are invalidd. Fifth columns

3. Engagement with the State Systema. Subversionb. Terrorist and guerrilla tactics

4. Cold War International Systema. Crisis managementb. Adversarial alliance blocsc. Deterrence doctrine based on mutually assured destruction [MAD]d. Enhanced tactics

5. Two levels of operationa. Global strategic nuclear contest

b. Regional proxy wars6. Most Visible Focus: Arab-Israeli Conflict7. Diplomacy

a. Viscount Sir Stratford Canning1) First principle Ottoman diplomacy: delay and respect based on

strength8. Soviet Exploitation of Arab Discontent with the State System9. Gamal Abdel Nasser

a. Colonels revolt in Sanaa, 1962b. Egyptian air strikes on Saudi border townsc. Ellsworth Bunkers shuttle diplomacyd. Agreement for a mutual withdrawal

10. Henry Kissingera. Yo-yo expressb. Kissinger accomplishmentsc. Syria: A die-hard enemy

11. Camp David Accordsa. Catoctin Mountain Parkb. UN refusal to acknowledge the Egypt-Israel Treaty of Peacec. State legitimacy denounced

12. Irana. Division of imperial Persia, 1907b. Coup by Reza Khan (Pahlavi)c. Naming of Iran (a cognate of Aryan)d. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

13. Report by Martin Herz, 1964: Iran Is a Hollow Shella. SAVAK

b. Exile of Ayatollah Khomeinic. Celebration in Persepolis

14. Defense Assistance to Irana. Nixon Doctrineb. Ardeshir Zahedic. Student demonstrations

15. Michel Foucault on the1978 Revolutiona. First great revolution against the global systemb. Rousseau and Marx


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c. Total revolutiond. General will

I. THE INDIAN MUTINY AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM1. Babur

a. Mughal Dynastyb. Taj Mahal

2. East India Companya. Aurangzebb. Fragmentation of the realmc. Persian foray, 1739d. Battle of Plassey, 1757

1) Robert Clive3. Warren Hastings

a. British Indiab. Men on stiltsc. Missionaries

4. Lord Canninga. Indian (Sepoy) Mutiny, 1857b. Multiple causes

1) Loss of caste due to crossing the waters2) Enfield rifle: Cartridges rumored to be lubricated with animal fat

5. Direct British rulea. Victorian Empress of India, 1877b. The Great Gamec. Intelligence analysisd. Insurgency and counter-insurgency

6. Religious Influencea. Muslim quietism

1) Deobandi Movementb. Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental Collegec. Hindutvad. Mahatma Gandhis Hind Swaraje. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

7. 1947 Partition of India8. Record of British India

a. Modern world order in the making9. Substance of Civic Virtue Is All-important

a. Legacy of the British Empireb. Nirad Chaudhuric. Substantive ideals of open trade, open expression, and popular sovereignty

Review

wars since Westphalia Edmund Burke Napoleon BonaparteEgyptian campaign Champollion s Rosetta Stone G. W. F. Hegelemperor as the world soul end of history idea mercantilism vs. free trade

Opium War Treaty of Nanking Taiping RebellionBoxer Rebellion slavery and polygamy Americas diplomatic aloofnessCongress of Vienna birth of Germany Paris CommuneT. E. Lawrence Sykes-Picot Agreement League of Nations mandate systemreasons for WWI Woodrow Wilson Fourteen Pointsabdication of Wilhelm II caliphate abolished East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphereko do Manchukuo grand strategies: Japan, GermanyHajj Amin al-Husseini Yishuv common aims of Nazism and Islamismcommunist ideology fifth columns delay, respect based on strength


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mutually assured destruction Gamal Abdul Nasser Egypt-Israel Treaty of PeaceMichel Foucault East India Company India (Sepoy) MutinyDeobandi movement Hindutva

CHAPTER FOUR: AN ISLAMIST CHALLENGE TAKES SHAPE

Outline

A. 1979: IRANIAN REVOLUTION1. Ayatollah Khomeini2. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi3. J.-J. Rousseaus Social Contract

a. Manual for revolutionary overthrow of establishments and creation of alegitimate society

b. Marginalization of government ministries and the military1) Supervision by commissars: ideologically-empowered keepers of the will

of the people, such as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

2). At the top: A Hegemon or fhrer4. New Political Philosophya. Velayat-e Faqih

5. Real Power: Theologically Legitimated6. 1979 Seizure of the American Embassy

a. Secret drive to acquire nuclear weapons7. Henry Kissinger vs. Henry Precht

B. 1979: SAUDI ARABIA1. Occupation of the Grand Mosque2. Uprising Put Down3. Subsidization of Wahabi-Salafi Islamism

C. 1979: PAKISTAN1. Zia ul-Haq

a. Execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto2. Jinnahs Vision Abandoned

a. Islamist infiltration of security agenciesb. Used terrorists in Kashmir and Afghanistan

D. 1979: AFGHANISTAN1. Soviet Seizure of Afghanistan2. Freedom Fighters3. Osama bin Laden

E. 1979: EGYPT1. Anwar Sadat2. Egypts Expulsion from the Arab League

F. 1979: SADDAMS IRAQ- BONFIRE OF THE PATHOLOGIES1. Saddam Hussein

a. 1979 Baath (Arab Renaissance) Party purge

b. Amalgam of the Nazi and Communist parties2. Challenges to International Peace and Security3. Strategy of Having It Both Ways

a. Privileges and immunities shielded his actionsb. Violations of the laws and principles of the system

4. Invasion of Iraqa. High level of mutual slaughterb. U.S. dual containmentc. 1987: re-flagging operation


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a. Abolition of the caliphate, 1924b. Establishment of non-democratic states

3. Wave of Democratization Elsewhere4. Arab Human Development Report of 2002

a. Denial of information and freedom of expressionb. Freedom deficit

5. Varieties of Arab Misrulea. Pathologies have provided fertile ground for a revolutionary religious ideology

6. First Terrorist War: Black September in Jordan, 1970; Munich games, 1972; skyjackings7. Stepping Up of Security Measures8. Blindness to the Religious Dimension

a. Westphalian credob. Black September murders, 1973

1) PLO regarded as an indispensable interlocutor in the peace processc. Sadat assassination

I. SADDAM OVERTHROWN1. George W. Bush

a. 17 Security Council resolutions2. Res. 1441

a. WMDs not accounted forb. Hans Blix on non-compliance

3. French Diplomacy Split NATO, the EU and the Security Councila. France expected US forces to stay poised to strike

4. Foundation for American Actiona. Duelfer Reportb. Oil-for-Food Programc. Res. 678 and 187d. Subsequent resolutions supported US policy

J. SADDAMS STRATEGY1. Saddams Classic Arab Dilemma

a. Cons: UN sanctionsb. Pros: deter Iran and prestige

2. First Phase: Saddam Played It Both Waysa. Initial cooperationb. Subsequent defiancec. Virtual programs maintained

3. Second Phasea. Pressures against the sanctions

4. Oil-for-Food UN Programa. Convoluted negotiationsb. Saddams manipulations to play the oil marketc. Weak argument

5. Kickbacksa. Palaces and weapons purchasesb. Oil contracts and payoffs meant opposition to military action

6. Third Phase: Gaming of the Inspections

7. Success of Saddams Strategya. US: rebuffed or retreatedb. Fear of his arsenalc. Central potentate of the Middle Eastd. Islamist persona

8. Res. 1441a. Unnecessary but advantageous for Operation Iraqi Freedomb. Saddams miscalculation

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a. Huge stakesb. Failure not an optionc. No criminal-in-chief should enjoy the shield of statehood

10. A Plan More Ambitious Than the Marshall Plan11. Fouad Ajami

a. Terrorists come out of the pathologies of Arab life

b. Why it was important to take the war into the Arab world itself

Review

Ayatollah Khomeini J.-J.Rousseaus Social Contract Velayat-e Faqihoccupation of the Grand Mosque Zia ul-Haq Anwar SadatSaddam Hussein symbolic Islamist acts Iraq Liberation Actpattern of repairing the system state failure poorly executed agreementsRome Statute Arab Human Development Report Westphalian credofoundation for American actions Saddams strategy Fouad Ajami

CHAPTER FIVE: THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION

Outline

A. THE ISLAMIST THREAT1. Fortunate Timing of 9/11

a. Further deterioration of the world order might have made defense more difficult2. Civil War in the Arab-Islamic World

a. Westernizersb. Rejectionists

3. Islamist Doctrines and Ideologya. State defined as un-Islamic as opposed to the umma

1) State supporters open to the charge of apostasyb. Secular dimension of international relations is unacceptablec. International law cannot accommodate shariad. Democracy seen as a violation of shariae. Human rights norms on rights of women are rejected

4. Insurmountable Barriera. Rejection of division of temporal and spiritual realmsb. Christian duality of powers is anathema to the unity and wholeness of Islam

5. Saudi Arabia Regarded as Un-Islamic and ApostateB. FOUR PHENOMENA THAT POSE THREATS TO WORLD ORDER

1. Collapse of Governance in Some States2. Rise of Non-State Islamist Groups

a. Ideology and strategy of groups like al-Qaeda3. Governing Regimes of Several Arab States Became Enablers

a. Saudi Arabia

b. One-issue explanation narrativec. Palestinian right of return

4. Rise of Rogue Regimesa. Dual roleb. World will welcome a change of heartc. Manipulation of world oil marketd. Dictaplomacye. True revolutionary power

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f. Enormous stakesC. CENTERS OF GRAVITY

1. Carl von Clausewitz2. 2002 National Security Strategy

a. Need to transform the Greater Middle Eastb. Bush administration did a poor job educating the public

3. Weightiest Center of Gravity to Be Removed: Saddams dictatorshipa. Linchpin and psychological kingpin of radical Arab scorn

4. International System Needed to Be Shored Up5. 2004 State of the Union Address

a. Forward Strategy of Freedom6. Bush Strategic Agenda

a. Iranb. Lebanonc. Reform of Arab statesd. Two-state solution

7. Khaled Abou El-Fadls The Great Theft8. Six Areas of Confrontation between Our Centers of Gravity

D. LEGAL

1. Terror-Using Combatantsa. Laws of war were designed for state-to-state conflict

1) Not insurgent warfare2. Protections Provided by the Geneva Convention

a. Assumption: wars fought by professional states armies fielded by legitimatestates

b. Reality is thus far insolublec. War criminals treated as ordinary criminalsd. Resulting confusion

E. MILITARY1. Carl von Clausewitz: We Must Understand What Kind of War We Are Fighting2. Need to Reject the Upside Down Cultural Context

a. Object is to kill the enemy fightersb. Islamists who love death are in limited supplyc. CT and COIN are the two optionsd. The effect of deadlinese. State-building

F. THE STATE1. Most Major Modern Wars Have Been Ideologically Driven Assaults against the State

Systema. The Cold War was the greatest such to dateb. EU experimentc. Most important influence on Muslim politics is each countrys state

2. Islamist Rejection of the Statea. Power of statelessness

1) Weapons of disruption and destruction3. Need to Support Moderate Muslim-Governed States

a. Procedural neutrality is not a threat to Islamb. Hajj is an international system

4. ShariaStatea. Pluralism is anathema to the Islamist state

1) al Nizam al-Islami5. Ayatollah Khomeini and Khamenei

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a. A flawed tool in practice2. Irans Stringing along of the International Community

a. Goal: produce missile-deliverable nuclear weapons3. Implications of an Iranian Nuclear Arsenal4. Nuclear-Free World Project

a. 1946 Acheson-Lilienthal Report

b. 1968 Non-Proliferation Treatyc. Halting Irans nuclear program is a precondition

5. Multilateral Collective Security Efforta. Use of diplomacy and sanctionsb. Irans pushing the collective security system to its moment of truth

6. Collective SecurityWas Designed to Replace Balance of Powera. WWI

7. Failure of the Acheson-Lilienthal Plan8. Irans Collective Security Challenge Is the Center of Gravity Now

J. VALUES1. American Values Are Now Being Turned into Weapons against Us2. War in Afghanistan

a. Pessimistic mood

3. Problem of Asymmetriesa. The Meliansb. Denunciation of the francs-tireurs

4. US Led the 20C Effort to Close the Asymmetry Gapa. Gap-closing steps

1) Human rights2) Development assistance3) Military justice system

5. Reverse Meanings of These Legal and Moral Restrictionsa. Use as strategic tactics

1) Weaponized by insurgentsb. Terrorism became the centerpiece of a war on world order

6. Ungoverned Spaces Have Become a Kings X for Insurgentsa. Asymmetrical tacticsb. Insurgents objects not to lose the war

K. CONCLUSION1. Every Category in the Center of Gravity Section Is Marked by a Danger Asymmetry

a. Laws of war have been converted2. Most Horrendous Asymmetrical Threat

a. Potential use of a nuclear weapon from no known address1) Unreachable by strategies of deterrence

b. Danger of the transfer of nuclear weapons to surrogates3. Policies and Techniques that Are Used to Cope with This Shift in the Balance of

Asymmetriesa. Deployment of lawyersb. But the problem has not been effectively addressedc. We have no answers to the strange paradigm shift

4. Americas Dilemma

Review

westernizers rejectionists Islamist doctrinesstate vs. umma democracy vs. sharia Christian duality of powersunity of Islam four threatening phenomena Al-Qaeda strategyArab state enablers Carl von Clausewitz center of gravityBush strategic agenda Khaled Abou El-Fadl on fitna six areas of confrontation


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laws of war Geneva Convention protections rejecting political correctnessCold War as the greatest threat shariastate Velayat e-FaqihObamas narrative shift AHDR George P. Shultzclassroom in the Kremlin Bushs pro-democracy efforts transparencydoctrine of collective security Acheson-Lilienthal Plan closing the asymmetry gap

CHAPTER SIX: IN THE MATTER OF GRAND STRATEGY

Outline

A. Modern International State System1. Westphalian System is itself a Grand Strategy and a Civilization

a. It is every civilizations other civilization2. Islamic Civilization Entered This System under Duress

a. Lack of successb. Pre-compensation through rigid, radicalized responses

3. Religion Relegated to the Margins

a. Return of the repressed4. Grand Strategy: Its Grounding in the Procedurala. Occams Razorb. Resulting flexibilityc. Where the line must be drawn: fighting faiths

5. Secularism and IslamB. WHETHER THE SYSTEM CAN ACCOMMODATE ISLAM

1. An-Naim: Positivistic State-Imposed Sharia Is Not True Law2. Ansary: Medina Policy

a. Kitab: covenant3. Mecca: Faith Adopted through Persuasion4. Ali Abd al-Raziq: No Injunction about a Political System

a. A strictly political temporal power annexes religion5. Parallel with Zia ul-Haq and Khomeini6. These Are Pragmatic Uses of Faith

a. L. Carl Brown7. Interdependence of Secularism and Religion8. Alexis de Tocqueville: Compatibility of Religion and Liberty

C. ALI A. ALLAWI ON ISLAMIC VALUES1. Transcendental Element is Non-negotiable2. Secularism is a Trap

a. Reform is a recipe for self-destruction3. Islam Has Had No State on the World Stage

a. Islam rendered powerlessb. Demand for an Islamic Statec. Idea of a caliphate

4. Only Two Possible Outcomes

a. Privatize Islamb. Public manifestation of Islam in daily life

5. Need for mutually respectful accommodation between Islam and the worlda. al-Ghazalib. Duncan Black MacDonald

D. RELIGION IN WORLD ORDER REVISITED1. Role of Religion in the Pre-Modern Age2. Modern World Has Defined Itself against Religion3. Modern Politics Began with Machiavelli, 1513


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a. Shock to religion1) Virtue emptied of classical and Christian meaning

4. Treaty of Westphalia5. Immanuel Kant on Enlightenment

a. Man is leaving his self-imposed immaturity6. French Revolution

a. Jacques-Louis Davids Death of Maratb. A modern Piet: revolution substituted for religion

7. Contribution of the Globalizing Economya. Swift

8. Max Webers Modernization Theorya. Nietzsche: Zenith of the modern assault on religion

E. EFFECTS OF THIS DISPOSAL OF RELIGION ON PEOPLES LIVES1. Jrgen Habermas: Search for Equivalents2. Legitimacy of the Modern Age Argument

a. Karl Lwith vs. Hans Blumenberg1) Modernity is a religion

3. Martin Heideggera. Return to the Pre-socratics

4. Neo-Pragmatists and Neo-Utilitariansa. Richard Rorty and Peter Singer

1) Anti-foundationalism2) But they smuggled religious contraband

5. Hannah Arendt : Europe as the New Faitha. America as its evil adversary

6. First Truly Religion-Driven War Since 1648F. FRUITS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

1. Some of Historys Worst Human and Environmental Horrorsa. Rationalist modernity failed to provide a moral basis for life and politics

1) Disenchantmentb. Religion did not wither but grew more intense

2. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adornoa. Effort to create an alternate modernityb. Jurgen Habermas

3. Claims That Procedures Are Derived from a Religious Source of Valuesa. Hegel

1) Biblical idea of the nationsb. Legal equality of states

1) Devised from transcendental belief4. Charles Taylor

a. Modernity has brought forth its own spiritual content5. al-Ghazali and Anselm6. Two Versions of Job7. No Convergence of Disparate Religions8. Islam as Social Project9. Question Comes Down to Democracy

Review

grand strategy kitab Ali Abd al-Rziqal-Ghazali virtue J.-L. Davids Death of MaratMax Weber modernization theory Jrgen HabermasMartin Heidegger Max Horkheimer Charles Taylor

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