Confronting Terrorism
December 2003
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December Article Abstracts
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Title: Democracy: Terrorism's Uncertain Antidote
Author: Thomas Carothers
"There is no inherent reason why the Arab world cannot join the global democratic trend. Yet there are very real . . . reasons why the democratization of Arab societies will prove unusually slow, difficult, and conflictive."
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Title: The Reluctant Nation Builders
Author: Alan Sorensen
"The largely unilateral, dubiously rationalized, and defiantly prosecuted occupation of Iraq has distracted from the need to develop international consensus and capacity for nation building and other benevolent interventions. What the world needs now . . . is possibly a new multilateral organization or two specialized in peacekeeping and state-building operations."
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Title: Measuring the War on Terrorism: A First Appraisal
Author: Daniel Byman
"How goes this war? Both Al Qaeda and the United States can claim some degree of success. In general, Al Qaeda has suffered operationally, but its broader support remains strong. The United States has greatly improved its ability to target Al Qaeda, but gaps remain."
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Title: Radical Islam, Liberal Islam
Author: M. A. Muqtedar Khan
"It is in the battle for Islam's soul that the United States and liberal Islam share a common strategic goal: the systematic dismantlement and delegitimization of the rogue Islamist discourse that portrays America as an anti-Islam crusader and Islam as an ideology of hate and violence."
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Title: Leaderless Resistance: The Next Threat?
Author: Jeremy Pressman
"What if the next generation of Al Qaeda has neither a central leadership nor a territorial base? If a terrorist organization could find a model for operating without its own Afghanistan, it would pose a different and perhaps more difficult set of challenges for counterterrorist forces."
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Title: Nuclear Terrorism: Why Deterrence Still Matters
Author: Jasen J. Castillo
"Although policy makers worry about the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, we should recognize that terrorist organizations have shown a remarkable tendency to fall back on well-tested conventional methods of attack. . . . Deterrence, when measured against prevention, still maintains enough credibility to prevent rogue states from sharing nuclear weapons with terrorists."
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Title: China's Dubious Role in the War on Terror
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
"Although China has made some attempts to help the United States combat terrorist groups, its contributions have been limited and overpraised, and it has manipulated the war on terror for its own means."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in October, country by country, day by day.
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Title: CURRENT HISTORY INDEX
January-December 2003 Volume 102, Numbers 660-668
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Title: Islamist Terrorist Groups
A map of Islamist Terrorist Groups
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