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  • Democracy, U.S. Middle East Policy, and the Limits of World Order, P. Seeberg (ed.): EU and the Mediterranean. Foreign Policy and Security. University Press of Southern Denmark 2007

  • Innocence Lost. Islamism and the Battle over Values and World Order. Odense. University Press of Southern Denmark 2007. 194 pages:


    Innocence Lost is another fine contribution by Lars Erslev Andersen, one of Europe's best informed scholars on the West and contemporary Muslim societies. He offers an incisive, provocative and timely analysis not only of the Danish cartoon affair but of the profound challenges of our times, namely the pressing need for a course of dialogue and de-escalation in the approach of western countries to the Muslim world. He aptly warns against a reprise to the logic of religious war and argues that a key answer lies in the West, and not least the United States, being true to its own core principles including justice and equality

    Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University. Professor in the Departments of International Relations and Anthropology. He is presently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo

    This new study is an extraordinary survey and up-to-date account of the very real tensions that today mark the relations between the US-led West and the Muslim Middle East. Its great value is not only its wide ranging coverage but also putting such episodes as the Œcartoons¹ crisis into a proper analytical perspective. A great little study

    Anoush Ehteshami, Durham University. Professor, BA (Hons) in Social Sciences, PhD in Politics. Head of School in the School of Government and International Affairs and member of the Centre for Iranian Studies. He is furthermore Special Advisor to the Islamic Criminal Justice Project in the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

    Innocence Lost is a concise and incisive analysis of the disintegration of the Middle East and the role of the United States, above all, in contributing to its current chaos. Lars Erslev Andersen, one of Europe¹s leading international security and Middle East experts, begins with the Danish cartoon controversy and masterfully surveys the competing trends of radical Islamism and American neoconservatism, bent as they are on a collision course that has turned Huntington¹s ³clash of civilizations² thesis into a self-confirming prophecy. He shows how liberal political reform, contaminated by its neoconservative patrons, has failed to take root in Iraq and Lebanon, and in the other authoritarian regimes of the region; and how the festering Palestine problem has exacerbated the region¹s grim condition. Let us hope that his insightful account will be read beyond Denmark and Europe there are valuable lessons in it for Middle Easterners and Americans too.

    Michael C. Hudson, Saif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies and Professor of International Relations, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

  • With Søren Hove og Morten Valbjørn: Nye Kolde Krige i Mellemøsten. USA's mellemøststrategi, situationen i Golfen og forandringer i den arabiske offentlighed. Odense. Syddansk Universitet 2007. 118 pages:


    In 2006, the state of affairs in Iraq was the worst since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, with inter- sectarian warfare and violence forming the overriding order of the day. In spite of a February 2007 agreement between Hamas og Fatah to form a coalition government, a civil war among Palestinians still seems imminent, and not much hope is attached to peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. The war in July of 2006 in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah left Lebanon in a state in which civil war seems imminent and Israel with an urgent need for a new security policy strategy.

    In the United States, criticism of the Middle East policy of the George W. Bush administration has become one of the mot prominent political themes. After the war in Lebanon the U.S. government, with Condoleezza Rice as main architect, has revised the U.S.' Middle East strategy. The book analyses the new American strategy as a New Cold War, which through new alliances seeks to increase the pressure on Iran.

    The relationship between society and state in the Middle East has, through war and changes in Arab public life, undergone dramatic changes. The role of the Arab Gulf in regional politics has increased I significance, and a new conflict between Sunnis and Shias is widely assumed to be in the making.

    The book analyses these tendencies and the perspectives they present for the Middle East, taking as its point of departure the Old Arab Cold War, the New Arab Cold War and that which, as a designation for U.S. Middle East strategy after the Lebanese war, is termed a New Cold War in the Middle East.

    Den Tabte Uskyld. Verdensorden. Værdikamp. Islamisme (Innocence Lost. World Order. Battle over Values. Islamism)     [In Danish]. Odense. Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2006. 176 pages. The book has also been offered through Samlerens Bogklub and as audiobook through Audioteket A/S (www.audioteket.dk)

    Contributions to Tankens Magt. Vestens Idéhistorie. Edited by Hans Siggaard Jensen, Ole Knudsen, Frederik Stjernfelt. Text editor: Claus Bratt Østergaard. København: Lindhardt & Ringhof 2006:

  • "Islams fremvækst"; "Islamisk lov og ret"; "Sunni- og shia-islam" i Bind 1: Religion og Teologi 350-1350

  • "Det europæiske Osmannerrige" i Bind 1: Religion og Teologi 1350-1600

  • "Den europæiske orientalisme" i Bind 2: Menneske, Sprog og Samfund 1789-1857

  • "Euroislam og islamisme i Europa"; "Religiøs fundamentalisme" i Bind 3: Religion og Teologi 1973 og frem

  • "Krigen mod korsfarere. Hvorfor al-Qaida opstod og hvad al-Qaida bliver til nu", in Nyhedsmagasinet RÆSON, Nummer 1, Årgang 1, Forår 2007, pages 94-115

  • "Ytringsfrihed, værdikamp og Muhammed-tegningernes politiske symbolik", in Henning Nielsen, Jesper Gronenberg, Tomas Bech Madsen (red.): Verden I Forandring IX. Temaartikler om Muhammedkrisen, ytringsfrihed og andre menneskerettigheder. Odense. Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2006, pages 22-48

  • "I frihedens Navn - krigen mod terror som den retfærdige krigs genkomst", in Carsten Selch Jensen (red.): Retfærdig Krig. Om legitimeringer af krig og voldsudøvelse i historien. Odense. Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2006, pages 210-254

  • "Sårbarhedens retorik som apokalypse - postmoderne terrorismediskurs i Amerika", in Mia Rendix & Jakob Krohn (red.): Apokalypsens Amerika. Odense. Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2006, pages 157-167




    Publications ( In English )

  • Democracy, U.S. Middle East Policy, and the Limits of World Order, P. Seeberg (ed.): EU and the Mediterranean. Foreign Policy and Security. University Press of Southern Denmark 2007

  • Innocence Lost. Islamism and the Battle over Values and World Order. Odense. University Press of Southern Denmark 2007. 194 sider

  • Together with Jan Aagaard: In the Name of God. The Afghan Connection and the U.S. War against Terrorism. Odense. University Press of Southern Danmark. 253 sider

  • The Rhetoric of bioterrorism in media and fiction: Implications for U.S. counter-terrorism. Working Paper 4, August 2005, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark

  • In the Name of Freedom: The War on Terror as the Return of Just War. Working Paper 3, August 2005, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark

    Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Singapore, 2005. Rohan Gunaratna is Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore, and Senior Fellow, Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy at West Point:

    The authors present a rich history that enables both the generalists and the specialists to understand the politico-religious ideology that drives the contemporary jihadists to kill and die. They discuss in detail, the formation of that powerful belief system, the key ideologies, the financing, the training, and most importantly, the terrorist. The two pivotal events that led to the formation of the contemporary Jihad networks - first, their defining Afghanistan experience and second, the international neglect of Afghanistan - are chronicled. The perception of the political leaders, bureaucrats and the public to the emerging threat including the intervention of Afghanistan and the strategic arguments for the invasion of Iraq are discussed…In this important work, Aagaard and Andersen provide the background information, both the understanding and the knowledge for the West to formulate and develop response beyond operational counter terrorism…I recommend this important work for both the generalist and the specialist

    Joshua Sinai, program manager for counterterrorism studies & education at The Analysis Corporation in The Washington Times, February 12, 2006:

    In the Name of God: the Afghan Connection and the U.S. War against Terrorism: The Story of the Afghan Veterans as the Masterminds Behind 9/11 by Lars Erslev Andersen and Jan Aagaard, is an especially noteworthy book because it reveals how completely unjustified is the violence currently sweeping the Islamic world against Denmark over a series of cartoons that do not reflect what are generally positive Danish views on Islam and the need to resolve Middle East problems. Mr. Andersen, a professor of Middle East studies at the University of Southern Denmark, and Mr. Aagaard, a counterterrorism case officer and analyst in the Danish Security Intelligence Service, argue that while many terror attacks have been prevented in the United States and Europe due to heightened preparedness and police cooperation, the motivation to join al Qaeda type networks is strong because "the 'war on terror' has consisted of military action and not of a will to solve the political problems on which terrorism subsists." Such sound policy recommendations are accompanied by a pragmatic definition of terrorism as "planned violence targeting civilians or forces that are not in battle," a discussion, although too brief, of the presence in Denmark of some Islamic radicals with ties to terrorist groups, its explanation of Islamic fundamentalism as a reaction to modernity and secularization and the worldwide networked nature of groups such as al Qaeda. The book's importance lies in the insights it reveals about Danish attitudes towards terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, and its constructive approach to resolving the problems underlying terrorism

  • Iran-EU-USA Relations seen through the Rushdie Affair

    • i Bjørn Møller (ed.): Oil & Water. Cooperative Security in The Persian Gulf. London. I. B. Tauris 2001. pp 290-309

  • Preface

    • in Aini Linjakumpu & Kirsi Virtanen (eds.): Under the Olive Tree. Reconsidering Mediterranean Politics and Culture. Tampere Peace Research Institute: Occasional Papers no. 73, 1997

  • Rushdie, Fundamentalism and Politics

    • I Ole Høiris & Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds.): Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East. Aarhus University Pres 1997. pp 61-70

  • Yemen: Democracy in a Tribal Society

    • i Bengt Knutson, Viking Mattson, Magnus Persson: Yemen - Present and Past. Lund Middle Eastern and North African Studies 1. Lund 1994

  • Health and society in Yemen

    • i Lars Erslev Andersen (ed.): Middle East Studies in Denmark. Odense Universitetsforlag 1994




    Various Publications

    Books

    (With Peter Seeberg), ed.: A New Middle East (Et Nyt Mellemøsten) (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2003), 335 p. (In Danish)

    The American Order. USA and the Modern Middle East (Den Amerikanske Orden. USA og det moderne Mellemøsten (København: Aschehoug 2003), 256 p. 3. ed. 2005 (In Danish)

    (With Peter Seeberg), Iran - from Revolution to Reform? (Iran fra revolution til reform?) (Gyldendal Uddannelse 1999), 144 p. (In Danish)

    Muslim Fundamentalists. Militant Muslims in the Middle East (Muslimske fundamentalister. Militante muslimer i Mellemøsten) (DUPI: Dansk Udenrigspolitisk Institut 1997), 110 p. (In Danish)

    The Afghan Connection. Afghanistan Veterans, al-Qaida Networks, and Global Terrorism (Den afghanske forbindelse. Afghanistanveteraner al-Qaida-netværk og den globale terrorisme) (KBH 2002) (In Danish)

    Ed., (with Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen) Satanic, Divine, and Oh So Human. The Rushdie Affair Ten Years After Khomeini's Death Sentence (Satanisk, guddommeligt og såre menneskeligt. Rushdie-sagen ti år efter Khomeinis dødsdom (Gyldendal 1999), 187 p. (In Danish)

    Ed., EU and the Mediterranean (EU og Middelhavet) (Odense Universitetsforlag 1998), 158 p. (In Danish)

    Beyond Irony - Four Essays on Søren Kierkegaard (Hinsides ironi - 4 essays om Søren Kierkegaard) (Nordisk Sommeruniversitet, Århus 1995), 116 p. (In Danish)

    Ed., Middle East Studies in Denmark (Odense Universitetsforlag 1994), 215 p.

    Allegory and Mimesis. Plato - Benjamin There and Back (Allegori og Mimesis. Platon - Benjamin tur/retur) (Modtryk: Århus 1989), 92 p. (In Danish)

    Ed., (With Per Stounbjerg, Peter Brix Søndergaard, Erik Østerud), Løjper. Themes in Contemporary Reading (Temaer i aktuel tekstlæsning) (Århus Universitetsforlag 1988), 178 p. (In Danish)

    Ed., (With Hans Hauge), Text and Trope. Deconstruction in America (Tekst og Trope. Dekonstruktion i Amerika.) (Modtryk. Århus 1988), 152 p. (In Danish)

    Articles

    In the Name of Freedom - the War on Terror as the Return of Just War ("I Frihedens Navn - krigen mod terror som den retfærdige krigs genkomst"), in Carsten Selch Jensen (Ed.): Retfærdig krig - om legitimeringer af krig og voldsudøvelse i historien (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2006), pp. 210-254 (In Danish)

    Religion, Justice and Politics in the Democratization of the Middle East (Religion, ret og politik i demokratiseringen af Mellemøsten), Den Jyske Historiker No. 110-111 December 2005, pp. 172-192 (In Danish)

    The Rhetoric of bioterrorism in media and fiction: Implications for U.S. counter-terrorism. Arbejdspapir no. 4, August 2005, Syddansk Universitet, Center for Mellemøststudier

    In the Name of Freedom: The War on Terror as the Return of Just War. Arbejdspapir no. 3, August 2005, Syddansk Universitet, Center for Mellemøststudier

    (Terrorism and World Order. The Rudiments of a Hermeneutic Analysis.) Terrorisme og verdensorden. Ansatser til en hermeneutisk analyse. Arbejdspapir no. 1, september 2004, Syddansk Universitet, Center for Mellemøststudier

    Homeland Security. Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism Before and After 9/11 ("Hjemlandets sikkerhed. Transatlantisk terrorbekæmpelse før og efter 11. september 2001"), in Kenneth Møller Jørgensen & Terkel Kunding (Ed.): Atlantiske afstande. Samfund, sikkerhed og samarbejde i bevægelse (København: Akademisk Forlag 2004), 22 p. (In Danish)

    The Concept of Terrorism in American Security Policy ("Terrorismebegrepet i amerikansk sikkerhedspolitikk"), in Vardøger, 28/03, p. 202-214 (In Norwegian)

    (With Morten Valbjørn), Under Attack - Middle East Studies after 9/11 (Under Angreb - Mellemøststudier efter 11. september"), KRITIK, Vol. 36, no. 162, pp. 15-27 (In Danish)

    Political Timing in U.S - Saudi Relations ("Politisk timing i det amerikansk-saudiske forhold"), in Et Nyt Mellemøsten (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2003), 25 p. (In Danish)

    Just War. A Postscript concerning the U.S. Vision of a Democratic Middle East ("Retfærdig krig. Et efterskrift om USA's vision om et demokratisk Mellemøsten"), in Et Nyt Mellemøsten (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2003), 22 p. (In Danish)

    Asymmetrical Warfare, New Terrorism and the Post-Modern World (Dis-)Order - the Story of a Heralded Terrorist Attack ("Asymmetrisk krig, ny terrorisme og den postmoderne verdens(u)orden - historien om et bebudet terrorangreb"), in Militært Tidsskrift no. 1, 2002 (In Danish)

    Iran-EU-USA Relations Seen Through the Rushdie Affair, in: Bjørn Møller (ed.): Oil & Water. Cooperative Security in The Persian Gulf (London: I. B. Tauris 2001), pp 290-309

    The Absent Superpower - the United States and the Oslo Process (Den fraværende supermagt - USA og Osloprocessen"), in: Michael Irving Jensen (Ed.): På Tærsklen til Fred. Al-Aqsa intifadaen og fredsprocessen i Mellemøsten (København: Gyldendal 2001). pp 65-81 (In Danish)

    Turkey Must Be Included, But Why, Really? ("Tyrkiet skal med, men hvorfor egentlig?"), in: Politologiske Studier 4. årgang, no. 1, marts 2001, Institut for Statskundskab, Københavns Universitet, pp 63-70 (In Danish)

    Usama, Post-Modern Terrorism and American Security Policy ("Usama, postmoderne terrorisne og amerikansk sikkerhedspolitik"), in Rubicon no. 3, 7. volume 1999 (In Danish)

    Khomeini's Troublesome Legacy", in Satanic, Divine, and Oh So Human. The Rushdie Affair Ten Years After Khomeini's Daeth Sentence (Khomeinis besværlige testamente" in, Satanisk, guddommeligt og såre menneskeligt. Rushdie-sagen ti år efter Khomeinis dødsdom) (Gyldendal 1999) (In Danish)

    The Third World As Utopia. Nationalism and Islamism in Algeria and Iran ("Den Tredje Verden som utopi. Nationalisme og islamisme i Algeriet og Iran"), in Mette Astrid-Jessen og Nils Arne Sørensen (Eds.), Identitet, nation og stat i post-koloniale samfund, Den Jyske Historiker no. 81 1998, 40 p. (In Danish)

    EU and the Case of Algeria, in EU and the Mediterranean ("EU og historien om Algeriet", in EU og Middelhavet) (Odense Universitetsforlag 1998), 29 p. (In Danish)

    EU and the Mediterranean" in Lars Erslev Andersen (Ed.) EU and the Mediterranean (EU og Middelhavet in Lars Erslev Andersen (Ed.), EU og Middelhavet) (Odense Universitetsforlag 1998), 18 p. (In Danish)

    Repetition. On the Reading Moment ("Upprepning. Om läsningens ögenblick"), in Aiolos. Tidskrift för litteratur, teori og estetik, no. 6-7, Stockholm 1998, 21 p. (In Swedish)

    Preface in Aini Linjakumpu & Kirsi Virtanen (eds.), Under the Olive Tree. Reconsidering Mediterranean Politics and Culture (Tampere Peace Research Institute: Occasional Papers no. 73, 1997), 4 p.

    Rushdie, Fundamentalism and Politics. in: Ole Høiris & Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds.): Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East. Århus. Aarhus University Pres 1997, 61-70

    Yemen: Democracy in a Tribal Society in Bengt Knutson, Viking Mattson, Magnus Persson, Yemen - Present and Past, Lund Middle Eastern and North African Studies 1 (Lund 1994), 14 p.

    Humor, Contingency and Community ("Humor, kontingens og fælleskab"), in Passage. Tidsskrift for Litteratur (Aarhus 1994), 18 p. (In Danish)

    Health and Society in Yemen in Lars Erslev Andersen (ed.), Middle East Studies in Denmark (Odense Universitetsforlag 1994), 15 p.

    Yemen - Entering the Modern? in Lars Erslev Andersen (Ed.), Yemen - Between Tribe and Modernity ("Yemen - på vej ind i det moderne?", in Lars Erslev Andersen (Ed.), Yemen - mellem stamme og modernitet) (Herning 1994), 18 p. (In Danish)

    Self, Representation and Self-Representation. Autobiography as Genre and Søren Kierkegaard's Appraisal of His Own Work ("Själv, framställning och självframställning. Självbiografin som genre och Søren Kierkegaards syn på sitt författerskap"), in Christoffer Tigerstedt, J.P.Roos och Anni Vilkko (Ed.), Självbiografi, Kultur, Liv. Levnadshistoriska studier inom human- och samhällsvetenskap (Symposion: Stockholm 1992), 18 p. (In Swedish)

    "…Balancing Weight with Lightness…" - Publicity, Islam and Politics Further to the Satanic Verses ("...At sætte lethed ind mod tyngde.. - Offentlighed, islam og politik i forlængelse af De sataniske vers"), in Slagmark marts 1992, 35 p. (In Danish)

    Self, Representation and Self-Representation. Autobiography as Genre and Søren Kierkegaard's Appraisal of His Own Work ("Selv, fremstilling og selvfremstilling: Om selvbiografien som genre og om Søren Kierkegaards synspunkter på sin skrift") in Hans Hauge (Ed.), Subjektets status. Om subjektfilosofi, metafysik og modernitet Center for Kulturforskning/Århus Universitetsforiag Århus 1990), 20 p. (In Danish)

    Benjamin on the Move: On the Use of Benjamin in America ("Benjamin on the move: Om brugen af Benjamin i Amerika") in Tore Eriksen (Ed.), Tankestreger en antologi om Walter Benjamin (Modtryk: Åthus 1989), 14 p. (In Danish)

    Søren Kierkegaard's 'typewriter'("Søren Kierkegaards "skrivemaskine"") in Kredsen no. 2, volume 54 København 1989, 14 p. (In Danish)

    The Rhetoric of Biography. The Life and Writing of Paul de Man ("Biografiens retorik. Liv og Skrift hos Paul de Man"), in UNDR Nyt Nordisk Forum no. 54 Århus 1988, 8 p. (In Danish)

    Repetition. On the Reading Moment ("Gentagelse - om læsningens øjeblik"), in Løjper. Temaer i aktuel tekstlæsning. 22 p. (In Danish)

    DeManding Allegory. On the Allegory of Reading and Deconstructive Criticism - an Introduction to Paul de Man, in Text and Trope. Deconstruction in America. ("DeManding Allegory. Om læsningens allegori og dekonstruktiv kritik - en introduktion til Paul de Man" i Tekst og Trope. Dekonstruktion i Amerika.) 26 p. (In Danish)

    Existence and Modernity in Søren Kierkegaard ("Eksistens og modernitet hos Søren Kierkegaard"), in Slagmark no. 4 Århus 1985, 22 p. (In Danish)

    Nietzsche's Aestetic Criticism of the Culture of the West ("Nietzsches æstetiske kritik af vesterlandets kultur"), in Lars-Henrik Schmidt et al., Nietzsche en tragisk filosof (Modtryk: Århus 1985), 24 p. (In Danish)

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