Stephen Tankel
Auteur van Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Columbia/Hurst)
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Stephen Tankel is assistant professor at American University, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for New American Security, and senior editor at War on the Rocks. He has served as a senior advisor at the Department of Defense and is author of Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba toon meer (2011). toon minder
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Stephen Tankel is an Assistant Professor at American University and a non-resident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research focuses on terrorism, insurgency, the evolution of violent non-state actors, and political and military affairs in South Asia. Tankel is also an adjunct staff member at the RAND Corporation, where he has contributed to research assessing jihadist ideology and decision-making. Tankel has conducted field research on conflicts and militancy in Algeria, India, Lebanon, Pakistan, and the Balkans. He is frequently asked to brief government officials, analysts, and practitioners on issues relating to jihadist violence and on security issues related to South Asia. Tankel has written extensively on these issues and Columbia University Press recently published his book, Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which examines that group’s ideological, strategic and operational evolution since the 1980s within the context of developments in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
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Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba door Stephen Tankel
On the night of 21 November 2008, in a series of simultaneous and well-coordinated attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba gunmen killed more than 170 people and injured over 300 in Mumbai, India's commercial capital. The victims included not only the Indian elite, but also Jews and Westerners. The Mumbai attacks announced Lashkar-e- Taiba's emergence on the world stage. Lashkar rose to prominence on the back of Pakistani state sponsorship for the insurgency in Kashmir, but has sent fighters to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as providing essential assistance to al-Qaeda. Were these attacks evidence that Lashkar is moving deeper into al-Qaeda's orbit? Or were they simply the latest attempts by which the group sought to harm Pakistan's historic rival, India? This book attempts to provide the back-story necessary to address these and other pressing questions. It charts Lashkar's development from a small group unable to make a dent in the Afghan jihad against the Soviets to the most feared organization in Kashmir and India as well as a powerhouse in Pakistani society. Along the way, it considers the nature of the threat Lashkar poses to Pakistan, India, and the West and how that threat has evolved since the Mumbai attacks.… (meer)
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