Organizing the U.S. Government to Counter Islamist Extremism

September 2012

Past Event

Organizing the U.S. Government to Counter Islamist Extremism

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

September 05, 2012

September 2012

Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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Speakers:

James Glassman,

Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute and former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Will Marshall,

Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute

Douglas J. Feith,

Hudson Senior Fellow, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and author

William A. Galston,

Brookings Institution Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and author

Abram N. Shulsky,

Hudson Senior Fellow, former Defense Department official, and author

For all the progress the United States has made in fighting terrorist networks, there has been a general failure to confront the terrorism problem's ideological center of gravity. A new Hudson Institute study examines how the U.S. government could mount an effort to address this failure by working to change the ideological climate in the Muslim world. The study identifies which types of governmental and nongovernmental organizations should be created to conduct this effort.

Produced by Douglas J. Feith and Abram N. Shulsky of Hudson Institute and William A. Galston of Brookings, the study argues that the various Islamist terrorist groups around the world are linked by ideology—common beliefs about their duties as Muslims that spawn and intensify hostility to the United States and to the West in general.

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