Selection depends partly, of course, on what kind of book one wants to produce. For example, if one felt that coverage of regional issues was important, there are a few pieces on topics like Islamism in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and so forth that might be good.
And if one wanted to spark discussion rather than be authoritative, one could include a broader range of opinions, picking the best-expressed views from various sides. If I were doing that I'd probably include stuff from Gerecht, Pipes, Krauthammer, Said, some Euros, etc.
Finally, if one wanted to go in a scholarly direction, there are one or two things I might slip in as well. This piece in Middle East Policy in the winter was very good, for example, going over much of the same territory as the Doran article but for a more academic audience--
mepc.org
--and I just read a superb analysis (as yet unpublished) of Islamism as a revolutionary movement that drew on Skocpol, Huntington, and Goldstone to explain things theoretically.
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