Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement (Praeger Security International)

Johnston, Douglas M.

ISBN 10: 0313391459 / ISBN 13: 9780313391453

Published by Praeger, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement (Praeger Security International)
• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313391459
• ISBN 13: 9780313391453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

How should the United States deal with the jihadist challenge and other religious imperatives that permeate today's geopolitical landscape? Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement argues that what's required is a longer-term strategy of cultural engagement, backed by a deeper understanding of how others view the world and what is important to them. The means by which that can be accomplished are the subject of this book.

The work realizes three important tasks. It shows how the United States can reposition itself to deal more effectively with the causal factors that underlie religious extremism; offers a successor to the rational-actor model of decision-making that has heretofore excluded "irrational" factors like religion; and suggests a new paradigm for U.S. leadership in anticipation of tomorrow's multipolar world. Describing how the United States should realign itself to deal more effectively with the factors underlying religious extremism, this innovative treatise explains how existing capabilities can be redirected to respond to the challenge and identifies additional capabilities that will be needed to complete the task.

About the Author

DOUGLAS M. JOHNSTON, JR., is President and founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy. He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. He has served in senior positions in government, the military, and the private sector, including six years at Harvard where he taught international affairs and was founder and director of the University's Executive Program in National and International Security. Dr. Johnston's most recent assignment was as Executive Vice President and COO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the principal author and editor of Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft (1994), Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The U.S. Leadership Challenge (1996), and Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik (2003).