Us Versus Them: The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green Threat

by Douglas Little

In this important new book, Douglas Little explores the political and cultural turmoil that led U.S. policy makers to shift their attention from containing the "Red Threat" of international communism to combating the "Green Threat" of radical Islam after 1989. Little analyzes America's confrontation with Islamic extremism through the traditional ideological framework of "us versus them" that has historically pitted the United States against Native...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469626802
• ISBN13: 9781469626802
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"