Center for Strategic Communication

Resisting Wahhabi Colonialism in Yogyakarta

by Mark Woodward* (Yogykarta, October 2008) Accounts of the “War of Words” or the “Battle for the Soul of Islam” or whatever else one choose to call the ideological struggle between “radicals” and “moderates” in the Muslim world tend to focus on elite...

Hope and Wait and See

by Steven R. Corman In a widely-read white paper published last year, my colleagues and I pointed out that strategic communication operates in a complex worldwide system.  One feature of such systems is that they can develop inertia, stubbornly insisting on...