Center for Strategic Communication

Do Terrorists Really Believe?

by Robert Poe The recent resurfacing of the Muhammad cartoon controversy brought to mind a lecture about belief given about two years ago by the prolific Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. For those uninitiated, Žižek is a contemporary, widely published...

Credibility in the Global War on Terrorism

by Steven R. Corman, Aaron Hess, & Z. S. Justus The perceived credibility of the United States government on the global stage has never been lower. This impedes its ability to fight, much less to win, the “war of ideas” that is so much a part of the global war on...