Using U.S. Leverage to Abate Conflicts That Harm U.S. Security
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Qaeda exploits wars that involve Muslims to sustain its power. It features
these wars in its propaganda, and uses them as occasions to recruit and train
new fighters, raise money, and network with other extremist groups. For these
reasons wars that involve Muslims are a tonic for al-Qaeda and a threat to U.S.
efforts to defeat al-Qaeda.1 Conflicts that do not involve Muslims can also help
al-Qaeda by causing states to quarrel among themselves instead of cooperating
to defeat al-Qaeda, or cooperating to limit the spread of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) that al-Qaeda seeks to acquire.
Date issued
2011-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political ScienceJournal
Prudent Use of Power in American National Security Strategy
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Tobin Project
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Van Evera, Stephen. "Using U.S. Leverage to Abate Conflicts That Harm U.S. Security." chapter IV in The Prudent Use of Power in American National Security Strategy, Edited by Stephen Van Evera (MIT) and Sidharth Shah Cambridge, MA : The Tobin Project, c2010. 185 p.
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