Provost Office Calendar   Book Launch: The Thistle & the Drone:
How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
(Updated 2/14/13)  1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Tuesday, April 9 (2013),
Abramson Family Founders Room, SIS Building    • Export to my
Calendar  The United States declared war on terrorism in the
wake of the 9/11 attacks. More than ten years later, the results
are still decidedly mixed. In The Thistle and the Drone, world-
renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals a
tremendously important yet largely unrecognized effect of this
campaign: in many nations, it has exacerbated the already-broken
relationship between central governments and the tribal
societies on their periphery. Ahmed tells us, "The center and
the periphery are engaged in a mutually destructive civil war
across the globe that has been intensified by the war on
terror." Current conflict in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and
elsewhere is not an inevitable eruption of a "clash of
civilizations" between the West and Islam, as