The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors. A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorismoffers concrete steps for undermining the very notion that terrorism is a legitimate method of political struggle-and for changing the conditions that lead people to embrace it. Adam Garfinkle and his expert contributors-all intimately familiar with Middle Eastern social settings and political cultures-examine the diplomatic, educational, and religious aspects of the problem. They show how we can-and must-stigmatize the idea of murdering civilians for any political cause, identify and stop the flow of money and other resources to those who carry out terrorism, refute the distortions of U.S. motivations that are promulgated by Islamic propagandists, and work patiently at social, economic, and political reform in Muslim countries.

Lisa Anderson is dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University Stephen Philip Cohen is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Michele Durocher Dunne is visiting assistant professor of Arabic language, linguistics, and literature at Georgetown University Dale F. Eickelman, Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College Graham E. Fuller, a former vice chair of the National Intelligence Council at the Central Intelligence Agency, has lived many years in different parts of the Muslim world. He also was a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation for twelve years. He is currently an independent writer and analyst Adam Garfinkle is former editor of The National Interest and chief writer of the reports of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission) F. Gregory Gause III is an associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont and director of the university's Middle East studies program His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal has initiated, founded, and is actively involved in a large number of Jordanian and international institutes and committees. He is a founding member of the Parliament of Cultures, established in Istanbul in July 2003 M. A. Muqtedar Khan is a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution and director of International Studies at Adrian College Martin Kramer is editor of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Quarterly. He is a senior associate of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and freedom-of-expression media activist. He is the director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Ramallah Ellen Laipson became president and chief executive officer of the Henry L. Stimson Center in April 2002 after a twenty-five-year career in the U.S. government Olivier Roy is currently a senior researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) William A. Rugh was a foreign service officer for thirty years, serving abroad in Beirut, Cairo, Jeddah, Riyadh, Damascus, San'a, and Abu Dhabi -- the latter two as U.S. ambassador. Robert Satloff has served since May 2002 as the Morocco-based director of policy and strategic planning at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Amir Taheri is the author of ten books on the Middle East and the Islamic world. He was executive editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper, from 1972-1979 and, for the past twenty-five years, has written for many Western and Middle Eastern publications on issues concerning the Muslim world