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“Atran explores the way terrorists think of themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists.”
—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author of Securing the City
Talking to the Enemy by Scott Atran is an eye-opening and important book that offers readers a startling look deep inside terror groups. Based on the author’s unprecedented access to and in-depth interviews with terrorists and jihadis—including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Taliban extremists, as well as members of other radical Islamic terror organizations—Talking to the Enemy provides fresh insight and unexpected answers to why there are people in this world willing to kill and die for a cause. A riveting, compelling work in the tradition of The Looming Tower and Terror in the Name of God, Talking to the Enemy is required reading for anyone interested in making the world a safer, more secure place for everyone.
- Sales Rank: #493092 in Books
- Published on: 2010-10-19
- Released on: 2010-10-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.32" w x 6.00" l, 1.58 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 576 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Atran (In Gods We Trust) examines the motivations of terrorists in this sprawling and timely study. Drawing upon years of travel among Muslim communities from Indonesia to Morocco, extensive interviews with would-be martyrs and holy warriors, and detailed surveys, the author concludes that young jihadists aren't merely motivated by political or religious fervor--they are powerfully bound to each other, they were campmates, school buddies, soccer pals, and the like, who become die-hard bands of brothers. Besides the importance of group dynamics in spawning terrorists, the author highlights the role of sacred values --core cultural values--that often trump other values, particularly economic ones. Within this context, Atran argues that the best measures against today's terrorist threat--which is more opportunistic, more scattered and disjointed, than it was before 9/11--are soft-power initiatives to provide alternative heroes and hopes within Muslim communities and to reframe sacred values. Atran's intellectual reach is prodigious; his analysis of the underpinnings of terrorism is instructive, if often unconventional; and his provocative prescriptions merit debate and consideration.
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Review
“Talking to the Enemy is Atran’s impassioned call for evidence-based policy, but it’s also an ambitious survey of culture and violence. Research is the trump card here, played often and well.” (David Shariatmadari, The Guardian)
“Talking to the Enemy is about far more than violent extremism. One of the most penetrating works of social investigation to appear in many years, it offers a fresh and compelling perspective on human conflict. ” (John Gray, Literary Review)
“Talking to the Enemy is recommendable not just for its vivid insights into the motivation of terrorists, butalso for its study of Islamic radicalisation and the anthropology of religion in general.” (Michael Bond, New Scientist)
“Talking to the Enemy is an important book, by turns fascinating, dense, scientific, debatable, illuminating.” (David Aaronovitch, The Times)
“Scott Atran is one of the world’s most important and innovative thinkers on the local and global dynamics of violent Islamist extremism. . . . Required reading for those trying to understand and address the problems of terrorism in the 21st century.” (Juan Zarate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism 2005 - 2009)
“What can be done to undo future jihadist networks? renowned anthropologist Scott Atran has carried out a very thorough study with surprising findings on what motivates those who kill and die.” (Luis Miguel Ariza, El Pais)
“Atran has given us a remarkably honest book, demonstrating that down-to-earth field work can give us a far superior understanding of what makes terrorists‘tick’ than whole armies of armchair counter-terrorist ‘experts.’” (Perspectives on Terrorism)
“This deeply researched, wide ranging, and very timely study provides a compelling and often surprising account of what lies behind the jihadi phenomenon . . . . It should be read carefully, and pondered.” (Noam Chomsky)
“Atran explores the way terrorists think about themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists. He puts the threat in perspective and provides keys to winning the fight against violent zealotry.” (Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author of SECURING THE CITY)
“The stories Atran brings back from talking to jihadists and their supporters are gripping, and the result of his experiments that probe their sacred values are compelling. The insights he gains tell us more than we knew before about what it means to be human.” (Robert Axelrod, Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan, author of The Evolution of Cooperation, and recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nu)
“Atran is one of the world’s most important thinkers on the local and global dynamics of violent Islamist extremism. His research on what motivates young men to fall prey to violent ideologies is required reading for those trying to understand the problems of terrorism in the 21st century.” (Juan Zarate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism 2005 - 2009)
“[Atran’s] rigorous research not only debunks the claims of pundits who sit lightly to academic discipline but also challenges unscientific attacks on religion by senior scientists. The political implications of his well-grounded analysis are profound but conveyed in an accessible style which left me excited and hopeful.” (John, Lord Alderdice, Chairman of the Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Lords, former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and President of Liberal International)
“A riveting account of the motivational basis of terrorism and field material of rare quality. Dismantling the myths that guide the so called war on terror, he provides the tools to address a global problem rationally and effectively.” (Carlo Strenger, Graduate Chair of Clinical Psychology, Tel Aviv University, and columnist for Ha'aretz)
“Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects.” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Distinguished Professor, New York University Polytechnic Institute, author of The New York Times bestseller The Black Swan)
“Historically keen and astutely humanistic...the author’s deep penetration into anthropological explanations of evolution, teamwork, blood sport and war attempt to define what it means to be human.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Recommendable not just for its vivid insights into the motivation of terrorists, but also for its study of Islamic radicalization and the anthropology of religion in general..” (New Scientist)
“A highly readable round-the-world examination of the jihad and its adherents. . . . Atran pieces together the lives and the backgrounds of extremists, offering insightful perspectives by placing contemporary Islamist dissent into a deeper context of human evolutionary history.” (Richard Phelps, Financial Times)
“Atran has given us a remarkablly honest book, demonstrating that down-to-earth field work can give us a far superior understanding of what makes terrorists ‘tick’ than whole armies of armchair counterterroris ‘experts.’” (Alex Schmid, Perspectives on Terrorism)
“Atran’s intellectual reach is prodigious; his analysis of the underpinnings of terrorism is instructive, if often unconventional; and his provocative prescriptions merit debate and consideration.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Sets us and our governments straight about a long list of dubious assumptions. He is sure that we must talk before we shoot, and that we must learn to distinguish real threats from imagined ones.” (Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books)
From the Back Cover
An illuminating work of religious and cultural anthropology, Talking to the Enemy traces terrorism’s root causes in human evolution and history, touching on the nature of faith, the origins of society, the limits of reason, and the power of moral values.
Through rigorous fieldwork and nuanced investigation, Scott Atran reminds us that terrorists are social beings influenced by the interpersonal bonds, connections, and values familiar to us all. When individuals combine notions of the homeland, a family of friends, and a band of brothers with the zeal of belief, they are capable of amazing things, both good and bad: the ancient Jewish resistance to Rome; the revolutionary founding of America; the formation of Al-Qaeda and the resulting “fear by so many of so few.”
A brilliant study of the social and psychological mechanisms that lead to terrorism, Talking to the Enemy rejects popular misconceptions about suicide bombers, radical Islam, and the relationship between religion and war. Atran’s surprising and insightful conclusions show how our tolerance of faith enables extremists to flourish and why atheism and science education have little effect, while providing a path for deradicalization. A timely and provocative work, Talking to the Enemy offers solutions to help us to identify terrorists today, prevent the creation of future terrorists, and ultimately make the world a safer place for everyone.
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67 of 71 people found the following review helpful.
Analyzing Terrorism Beyond Slogans
By Carlo Strenger
For fair Disclosure: I am a colleague of Scott Atran's, and I have cooperated with him on questions related to this book's topic. While this may not make me an impartial reviewer (I have endorsed this book, wholeheartedly), I want to explain the reason why Atran's work, and this book, are indispensable.
I live in Israel, where the question of the nature of terrorism and how to deal with is a daily, existential issue. Both here and in the US, everybody, including decision makers have well-entrenched views on what terrorism is and how it should be dealt with. The right 'knows' it needs to be eradicated by use of power; the left 'knows' that most terrorism, particularly Islamic terror, is only a reaction to Western imperialism, and if we were only 'nice' to everybody, it would stop. So most views on terrorism are based on previous mindsets, and most 'specialists' have made up their minds, and are no longer confused by the facts.
Atran's book is based on two pillars: one is his long-standing work on the evolutionary basis of religion (which I have reviewed in the past); the other is his anthropological research on radical religious groups. As opposed to all the 'all-knowing' experts, Atran has done extensive research that has included talking to members of most of the groups that are today lumped together as terrorist organizations. He has also done extensive research on the mind sets of radical religious groups. Lastly, he has been involved in the most systematic research done so far on how terror cells involved in the attacks of 9/11, Madrid and 7/7 have actually come into being.
'Talking to the Enemy' shows in micro-detail the psychological and social mechanisms that bind people together into groups that will engage in terror. These mechanisms are, without exception, ordinary psychological needs. But Atran doesn't fall into the trap of what could be called the social work mentality of the left: he shows that the left wing view that terrorists are poor and frustrated is falsified by the facts. He also shows that the right's view that global terrorism of the sort practiced by Al Qaeda can be defeated by force is utterly misguided. The picture that emerges is neither a sympathetic endorsement of the radicalized mind, nor a demonization, but a complex, precise picture of reality
Atran presents an empirically based, theoretically well integrated picture of how terrorism emerges, and he has specific suggestions what to do about it. For the general reader, 'Talking to the Enemy' is enormously informative and a great read. More than anything, I wish that decision makers would read it. It could do a lot to stop spending money and wasting lives doing the wrong things, and it suggests policies that might defuse some of the most dangerous conflicts that destabilize the whole world.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
The best book I have read this year
By J. Davis
This is an impressive work on a fascinating subject by a brilliant man and one of our nation's top scientists. Scott Atran understands religion probably better than anyone alive. He explains in detail why so many men are joining the "jihad" against the West. This book could be accurately described as a 600 page attack on false beliefs. Some surprising facts come out: for example religious education does not lead to suicidal terrorism and scientific education does not prevent it.
Atran devotes a fascinating chapter to criticizing the so-called New Atheists (e.g. Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris) and explains to the reader how their lack of understanding of religion embarrases him to be an atheist. He takes on some other dubious beliefs: that the "surge" in Afghanistan or other violence will eliminate terrorism. This is a true scientific work; Atran rarely relies on his own intution, but cites scientific studies to prove his case.I came close to giving this book 5 stars, which I something I almost never do.
I did not give it 5 stars, ultimately, because I see two flaws in it: 1. I think Atran underestimates the religious motivation behind terrorism. He's correct that there are other factors, but goes too far in downplaying this important belief. 2. He's a little overconfident on the compatibility of science with religion. This is somewhat surprising to me, as Atran has written eloquently against the "intelligent design" movement's threat to scientific education. These two flaws, however, do not destroy the book's effectiveness. It is still a tremendously enjoyable and educational work of science.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A great insight into how suicide terrorists really think
By Oscar
Scott Atran came under my radar due to his seemingly endless feud with the so called "New Atheists". I can't believe just how ignorant most of us are regarding suicide terrorism, but also how the mainstream media completely ignores this kind of research. And if that wasn't bad enough, Atran also cites examples of "qualified" people in the US government, european judges and media, fellow scientists, etc. utterly failing to realize how most effectively to track potential terrorists and to tackle their underlying roots for joining a movement such as the Jihad.
This book gives us a very thorough research and historical analysis of suicidal terrorism and and provides the cultural, historical, biological, cognitive, and religious framework necessary to understand the current status of conflict in the different parts of the world facing the constant of this threat.
It's important to mention, however, that the Auhor doesn't evaluate the spread of muslim and arabian culture into the different regions of the world where they continually face a direct threat to the hard fought values, ideals, laws and democratic principles of modern western societies. While the author mentions the rather successful adaptation of the muslim population in the US, in Europe specially it seems to be a different issue at the moment, that I personally think was overlooked as a source of potential conflict. This is particularly obvious with regards to the mysoginistic, patriarchal, and homophobic views of a significant percentage of its adherents (definitely not all).
About his feud with the New Atheists, unfortunately, both sides of this debate (other atheists vs new atheists) seem to have incurred in a caricature of each other; one side calling the other "hopeless optimists, religiously and culturally unsophisticated, unscientific,atc" and the other side calling the other "moral relativists, condescending, patronizing. accomodationists, etc.". I still think we can learn and gain from these kind of different perspectives. So while I personally think that a straightforward and open type of skepticism is well worth the effort (specially with the vicious attacks to our secular and educational institutions), ignoring the underlying biological and cognitive value that superstitious nonsense provides to the vast mayority of humans (as Atrans research show us) would only lead to an abismal failure and backlash effect in our quest for a rational and honest way of living.
Overall, I think the author convincingly shows and proves that the perceived threat and fear of suicide terrorists has been blown way out of proportion, and that we suffer the most from our overreaction to it, which only helps to fuel and breed new, and potentially worse, enemies in the near future.
This is a great book, one that absolutely manages to transmit a mindchanging insight into how the suicide terrorism threat should be understood and dealt with.
I highly recommend it.
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