Edited by Joseph McMillan, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University Press, 2007

Soon after 9/11, the U.S. Government realized that the willingness of people in many parts of the world to excuse or applaud terrorist acts was a critical obstacle to combating terrorism. To overcome the attitudes that generate support for terrorism, the Bush administration concluded that it would be necessary to build a global antiterrorism consensus that the intentional use of violence against noncombatants for political ends was evil in itself.

The question now is how the campaign of ideas can best be structured and prosecuted. We still have an unclear understanding of the extent to which support for terrorism is a function of rejection of Western values versus disagreement with U.S. policy, of the role that the quality and type of education provided in various countries affects support for terrorism, and of the causal links among poverty, poor governance, lack of democracy, and support for terrorism. This volume is an effort to begin overcoming this knowledge deficit.

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