The West's Road to 9/11 offers a detailed explanation of the handling of the challenge of terrorism by the USA, the UK and the West over the last thirty years. David Carlton contends that anti-terrorist rhetoric by the Governments of the West frequently masked indifference to the activities of many practitioners of non-state violence; and that in the case of the United States it did not hesitate even to sponsor those terrorist movements if deemed supportive of its wider geopolitical objectives.

DAVID CARLTON is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of MacDonald versus Henderson (1970); Anthony Eden: A Biography (1981); Britain and the Suez Crisis (1988); Churchill and the Soviet Union (2000) and numerous academic articles. He has also co-edited twenty-one further books.