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050 00 $aE902$b.L54 2003
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100 1 $aLifton, Robert Jay,$d1926-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058564
245 10 $aSuperpower syndrome :$bAmerica's apocalyptic confrontation with the world /$cby Robert Jay Lifton.
260 $aNew York :$bThunder's Mouth Press/Nations Books,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axii, 211 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-210).
505 00 $g1.$tThe Apocalyptic Face-off --$g2.$tApocalyptic Violence --$g3.$tCentury of Excess --$g4.$tAum Shinrikyo - The Threshold Crossed --$g5.$tBin Laden and al-Qaeda: "I Envision Saladin Coming Out of the Clouds" --$g6.$tThe Terrorist Dynamic --$g7.$tA Superpower's "War on Terrorism" --$g8.$tApocalyptic America --$g9.$tSuperpower Vulnerability --$g10.$tAmericans as Survivors --$g11.$tStages of Response --$g12.$tFluid World Control --$g13.$tStepping Out of the Syndrome.
520 1 $a"In Superpower Syndrome, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton describes two competing apocalyptic visions - Islamist and American - each aiming at massive destruction in the service of global purification and revewal. While the Islamist forces are overtly visionary in their willingness to kill and die for their religion. American forces claim restraint and reason while offering a no less visionary program for using their overwhelming military power to remake the world." "Both sides are energized by versions of intense idealism: both see themselves combating evil in order to redeem and renew the world: both are ready to unleash untold levels of violence to achieve that: each sees itself in a face-off with the other and, Lifton tells us, both have partnered up, however unwittingly, in a cycle of violence to which no end is in sight."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aRadicalism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aImperialism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064628
650 0 $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004005513
650 0 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000148
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089950
650 0 $aPolitical messianism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083998
650 0 $aChristianity and other religions$xIslam.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025266
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y2001-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000115
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y2001-2009$xPsychological aspects.
651 0 $aUnited States$xMilitary policy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
852 00 $bleh$hE902$i.L54 2003
852 00 $bbar$hE902$i.L54 2003