Benutzer:Gabel1960/Naafez Mossadeq Ahmed

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the IPRD, an independent non-profit research organisation for transdisciplinary security studies, analysing violent conflict in the context of global ecological, energy and economic crises. A bestselling author and international security analyst specialising in the study of mass violence, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, and lectured at Brunel University’s Politics & History Unit at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, for courses in international relations theory, contemporary history, empire and globalization.

Career

Dr. Ahmed is the recipient of an M.A. in Contemporary War & Peace Studies and a D.Phil in International Relations from the School of Global Studies at Sussex University. His doctoral thesis investigated the radicalization processes and dynamics of violent conflict, including mass violence and genocide, in the context of modern imperial social systems – particularly the European Atlantic empires and US-UK counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also published widely on international terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’, focusing on the material infrastructure of Islamist terrorist networks, and the energy geopolitics of US and Western foreign policy strategies. His current research focuses on the radicalization of violent conflicts in strategic regions in the context of systemic ecological, economic and energy crises rooted in the structure of the global political economy, exemplified in his latest monograph, A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: and How to Save It (Pluto, Macmillan, 2010).

Dr. Ahmed has written for the Independent on Sunday, Prospect Magazine, Le Monde diplomatique, International Affairs (Chatham House), New Internationalist, Muslim News, Raw Story, New Criminologist, Daily News Egypt, Pakistan Observer, and Tehran Times; and appeared as an expert commentator for BBC News 24, BBC World News with George Alagiah, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC World Today, BBC Asian Network, Channel 4, Sky News, C-SPAN Book TV, CNN, FOX News, Bloomberg, PBS Foreign Exchange, Al-Jazeera English, Press TV, Islam Channel and hundreds of other radio and TV shows in the USA, UK, and Europe. He is also cited and reviewed in the Sunday Times, Times Higher Educational Supplement, The Independent, The Observer, Big Issue Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Observer, among others, as well as dozens of peer-reviewed social science journals. He comments regularly for popular online newsmagazines such as ZNet, Counterpunch, AlterNet, Op Ed News, Atlantic Free Press, Ceasefire Magazine, Dissident Voice and New Left Project. Dr. Ahmed is also currently a partner contributor for editorials & analysis at former FBI translator Sibel Edmond’s The Boiling Frogs Post and contributing editor at the Journal for Public Intelligence founded by Robert D. Steele, former Deputy Director of the US Army’s Marine Corps Intelligence Command.

Quotations

Of The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism:

• "Nafeez Ahmed’s understanding of the post 9/11 power game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant. Everyone should read this wise and powerfully illuminating book." - John Pilger

• "I wish every American who still believes in the good intentions of our government would read this book. Drawing upon his impressive research into recent history, Nafeez Ahmed skilfully exposes the real motives behind the 'war on terrorism' and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq." - Howard Zinn: American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist.

• "Nafeez Ahmed demonstrates brilliantly that the war on freedom is inseparable from the war on truth." - Vandana Shiva

• "On the subject 'How and Why America was Attacked on 11 September, 2001', the best, most balanced report, thus far, is by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed." - Gore Vidal

Of A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it:

• “This is an important book. There has been much discussion already about climate change, peak oil, the cost of food and overpopulation, the global financial crisis busting neoliberal capitalism, the rise of violent extremism, and the containment of the so-called war on terror. But this is the first book to systematically explore their interconnections and place them within a single comprehensive narrative. That makes it a very worthwhile read for policy-makers everywhere.” Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP

• “Few thinkers weave as many threads into a tapestry as Nafeez Ahmed has done so superbly in this book.” - Dr. Jeremy Leggett

• "This is a staggeringly comprehensive bird’s-eye view of the gaping cracks that are appearing in global industrial civilization. Ahmed weaves a context that makes current economic and geopolitical events comprehensible. If you want to understand why the world is coming apart at the seams and what we can do to lay the foundations for a sane, peaceful, and sustainable society, read this book.” - Richard Heinberg

• "This important analysis exposes vital truths and challenges much conventional wisdom. It deserves to be widely read.” - Mark Curtis

Works

• The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 'Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, ISBN 0-930852-40-0, 400 pages, Media Messenger Books
• Behind the War on Terror : Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq ISBN 0-86571-506-8
• The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism ISBN 1-56656-596-0
• The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry ISBN 0-7156-3583-2
• UN Humanitarian Intervention in East Timor. A Critical Appraisal. Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, 2, Fall 2006. Pages 227-244.
• Structural Violence as a Form of Genocide. The Impact of the International Economic Order. Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, 5, Fall 2007. Pages 3–41.
• A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it, Pluto Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0745330532

See also

• List of British Bangladeshis

External links

• [1] The Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD)
• The Cutting Edge (blog)
• crisisofcivilization.com

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