Struggling with ‐isms: Occidentalism, Liberalism, Eurocentrism, Islamism

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Leen Boer works in the Strategic Policy Planning Unit of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PO Box 20061, Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, The Hague, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected]. This review reflects the author's personal views.

This book has been published in the UK by Atlantic Books under the title Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti‐Westernism (£14.99).

De Volkskrant, 10 April 2004.

See the interesting analysis in M Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

See, for example, S Halper & J Clarke, America Alone: The Neo‐Conservatives and the Global Order, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Sayyid defines the Islamicate world as the totality of communities historically transformed by the venture of Islam.

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Leen Boer

Leen Boer works in the Strategic Policy Planning Unit of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PO Box 20061, Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, The Hague, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected]. This review reflects the author's personal views.