Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas: Lessons from Indonesia - Hughes, John
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Winning the war of ideas What is the underlying theme for the message that America must project to the rest of the world? It is that its own rich heritage of freedom is something to which all mankind is entitled. Thus, says John Hughes, in Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas, the war the United States is fighting against Islamist extremism requires both military force and "soft power," the phrase that has come to mean a nonmilitary mix of economic development, humanitarian effort, and, perhaps most important, public diplomacy. Through a new and revitalized American public diplomacy, the…mehr

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Winning the war of ideas What is the underlying theme for the message that America must project to the rest of the world? It is that its own rich heritage of freedom is something to which all mankind is entitled. Thus, says John Hughes, in Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas, the war the United States is fighting against Islamist extremism requires both military force and "soft power," the phrase that has come to mean a nonmilitary mix of economic development, humanitarian effort, and, perhaps most important, public diplomacy. Through a new and revitalized American public diplomacy, the author shows, we can engage and persuade moderate Muslims that there is a better, nonviolent way to end the poverty and tribulation in which terrorism so often breeds. The author offers Indonesia as a successful example of the melding of democracy, Islam, and modernity and suggests that this country and other nations where Islam and democracy coexist--such as Turkey--could play a significant role in helping thwart Islamist extremism. He concludes that however democracy advances in the Arab world, and however its ultimate character differs from Jeffersonian democracy as Americans know it, the quest for freedom is noble and should remain the underlying premise of U.S. public diplomacy.
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John Hughes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He is currently a professor of international communications at Brigham Young University and writes a nationally syndicated column for the Monitor. Hughes served for six years as Africa correspondent and six years as Far East correspondent before becoming the Monitor's editor. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Indonesia and the Overseas Press Club Award for his investigation of the international narcotics traffic. During the Reagan administration he was associate director of the United States Information Agency, director of the Voice of America, and assistant secretary of state for public affairs and department spokesman. He later chaired presidential and congressional commissions on international government broadcasting. He has written two books, on Africa and Indonesia.