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Al Qaeda and what it means to be modern

John Gray
Argues that the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, and that its zeal to remake the world descends from the same Enlightenment creed that informed the disastrous Soviet experiment and the neo-liberal dream of a global free market. [book cover]
eBook, English, 2003
New Press, New York, 2003
1 online resource (145 pages)
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What Al Qaeda destroyed
Three modern projects
The original modernisers
A very short history of the global free market
Geopolitics and the limits of growth
The metamorphosis of war
Pax Americana?
Why we still do now know what it means to be modern
Originally published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber Limited, 2003
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