The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors. A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism offers concrete steps for undermining the very notion that terrorism is a legitimate method of political struggle—and for changing the conditions that lead people to embrace it.
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The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors. A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism offers concrete steps for undermining the very notion that terrorism is a legitimate method of political struggle—and for changing the conditions that lead people to embrace it.
Adam Garfinkle and his expert contributors—all intimately familiar with Middle Eastern social settings and political cultures—examine the diplomatic, educational, and religious aspects of the problem. They show how we can—and must—stigmatize the idea of murdering civilians for any political cause, identify and stop the flow of money and other resources to those who carry out terrorism, refute the distortions of U.S. motivations that are promulgated by Islamic propagandists, and work patiently at social, economic, and political reform in Muslim countries.
Adam Garfinkle has written widely on U.S. foreign policy and Middle Eastern subjects. A research fellow at the Hoover Institution during 2003, Dr. Garfinkle has served as editor of The National Interest and as a staff member of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission). He has taught U.S. foreign policy and Middle East politics at the University of Pennsylvania and at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University.
Contributors: Lisa Anderson, Stephen Philip Cohen, Michele Durocher Dunne, Dale F. Eickelman, Graham E. Fuller, Adam Garfinkle, F. Gregory Gause III, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Martin Kramer, Daoud Kuttab, Ellen Laipson, Olivier Roy, William A. Rugh, Robert Satloff, Amir Taheri
About the Author
Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951 in Washington, D. C.) is the editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of another such publication, The National Interest. He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the U.S. government. He was a speechwriter to more than one U.S. Secretary of State. Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both George W. Bush's Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He was editor of The National Interest and left to edit The American Interest magazine in 2005. Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Josef Joffe, and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership. Early in his career, Dr. Garfinkle worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (1972–1978 and from 1981
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The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors. A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism offers concrete steps for undermining the very notion that terrorism is a legitimate method of political struggle—and for changing the conditions that lead people to embrace it.
From the Publisher
The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors. A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism offers concrete steps for undermining the very notion that terrorism is a legitimate method of political struggle—and for changing the conditions that lead people to embrace it.
Adam Garfinkle and his expert contributors—all intimately familiar with Middle Eastern social settings and political cultures—examine the diplomatic, educational, and religious aspects of the problem. They show how we can—and must—stigmatize the idea of murdering civilians for any political cause, identify and stop the flow of money and other resources to those who carry out terrorism, refute the distortions of U.S. motivations that are promulgated by Islamic propagandists, and work patiently at social, economic, and political reform in Muslim countries.
Adam Garfinkle has written widely on U.S. foreign policy and Middle Eastern subjects. A research fellow at the Hoover Institution during 2003, Dr. Garfinkle has served as editor of The National Interest and as a staff member of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission). He has taught U.S. foreign policy and Middle East politics at the University of Pennsylvania and at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University.
Contributors: Lisa Anderson, Stephen Philip Cohen, Michele Durocher Dunne, Dale F. Eickelman, Graham E. Fuller, Adam Garfinkle, F. Gregory Gause III, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Martin Kramer, Daoud Kuttab, Ellen Laipson, Olivier Roy, William A. Rugh, Robert Satloff, Amir Taheri
About the Author
Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951 in Washington, D. C.) is the editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of another such publication, The National Interest. He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the U.S. government. He was a speechwriter to more than one U.S. Secretary of State. Garfinkle was a speechwriter for both George W. Bush's Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He was editor of The National Interest and left to edit The American Interest magazine in 2005. Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Josef Joffe, and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership. Early in his career, Dr. Garfinkle worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (1972–1978 and from 1981