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21 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 197 (2012-2013)
Winning without War: Nonmilitary Strategies for Overcoming Violent Extremism

handle is hein.journals/tlcp21 and id is 199 raw text is: Winning Without War: Nonmilitary Strategies for Overcoming Violent Extremism David Cortright* I. INTRODUCTION ........................................ ...... 197 II. How (NOT) To COUNTER TERRORISM ..................... ..... 201 III. THE ROOTS OF RESISTANCE .................................. 203 IV. THE REJECTION RESPONSE ............................ ...... 206 V. COUNTERINSURGENCY TO THE RESCUE? ...................... 208 VI. THE POLITICS OF FAILURE ................................... 211 VII. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION........................... 215 VIII. ERODING THE SUPPORT BASE FOR TERRORISM.................. 218 IX. POLITICAL SOLUTIONS ....................................... 220 X. CONCLUSION: DEMOCRACY, THE ANTIDOTE ................... 223 I. INTRODUCTION In the name of countering terrorism, the United States has pursued policies over the past decade that have harmed U.S. and global security. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush declared a global war on terror and initiated a series of militarized responses.' The United * David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. Cortright has written widely on ending the war in Afghanistan, nonviolent social change, nuclear disarmament, and the use of multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of international peacemaking. He has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war. Following his opposition to the Vietnam war as an active duty soldier, Cortright was named executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, in 1978. In November 2002, he helped to create Win Without War, a coalition of national organizations opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Cortright holds a B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. in history from New York University. He completed doctoral studies in political science at the Union Institute in residence at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, most recently Ending Obama's War (Paradigm, 2011) and Towards Nuclear Zero (Routledge, IISS, 2010) and is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc's online journal. I See President George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People (Sept. 20, 2001), available at http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/ 2001/09/20010920-8.html (Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.).

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