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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 28 pages. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)50014776 Subject: Democratization. Excerpt: . . . guarantee our security. Addressing the terrorist threat will require close international cooperation between diplomats, police and intelligence officers, and customs and immigration officials. It will require that we work on all of these levels to track down and destroy terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda. And it will require a deeper understanding of the effects of religious extremism, grinding poverty, and oppressive governments on Americas national security. Everyone agrees nothing can ever justify brutal terrorist acts. Nor are efforts to address these conditions a magic bullet that will eliminate terrorism. But until we better understand what drives an otherwise intelligent, often middle-class young man to pilot a commercial aircraft into a skyscraper--whether its religious intolerance taken to its extreme, or exacerbated by abject poverty, or by theological teachings, or by a combination of social, political, cultural, economic conditions and religious values gone amok--we will not know what the magic bullet is. It is clear that we cannot ignore the plight of the worlds disaffected. If we do, we do it at our own peril. We have already seen what poverty, instability, corruption, and repression can do in places like Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sudan, and how conditions in such places can threaten Americas national security. As New York Times journalist Tom Friedman has written, if you dont visit a bad neighborhood, it will visit you. But the question for us today is this: What exactly is the connection between economic conditions, the lack of democratic development, and the vehemence of extremist fundamentalist terrorism What combination of economic, social, and political factors cause states to fail or teeter on the brink of failure How grave is the danger to American interests posed by such states and what can we d. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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United States Congress Senate, W. Heimburg, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC.