This incisive text casts a clear light on globalization and terrorism as Jamal R. Nassar carefully defines these twin concepts, placing them in historical as well as political context. In addition to updated case studies of Palestine and Northern Ireland, the author has added cases on the Iraq and Afghan wars and applies their lessons to other examples of conflict including the Congo, Chechnya, and Colombia in order to internationalize our understanding of how globalization and terrorism operate in a range of situations. Nassar also considers the impact of the current worldwide recession and the potential for future global relations under the Obama administration. Yet even as the author offers a profound critique of Western hegemony, he conveys hope for an enlightened global interdependence-embracing the power of the dream over the nightmare. Book jacket.