CIAO DATE: 9/01

From CIAO's Board: Commentary on the Terrorist Attacks against the United States

Stephen M. Walt
September 2001

Harvard University


Colleagues and friends:

I appreciate and am learning from the various views expressed in this forum. I have already offered my own views and won’t reiterate them here, but I do want to emphasize that there’s no contradiction between what I said and the comments offered by Jack Snyder and Steph Haggard. In my view, we cannot simply rely on cooperation from particular governments (although that may be essential in the near-term). Over the longer-term, we must also improve relations with the societies from which these violent individuals spring. I suggested some first steps for doing that, but it will obviously take a much broader effort on many fronts, including careful scholarly work to help us understand the dynamics at work.

Commentary

Stephen M. Walt
Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Bruce Jentleson
Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy

Response by Etel Solingen
Professor of Political Science
University of California, Irvine

Response by Stephan Haggard
Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California, San Diego
Steven Weber
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley


Robert Keohane
James B. Duke Professor of Political Science
Duke University

Jack Snyder
Robert & Renee Belfer Professor of Political Science
Columbia University

Anders Stephanson
James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Columbia Core
Columbia University

Stephan Haggard

Stephen M. Walt

Allan Goodman
President
Institute of International Education (IIE)

Helen Milner
Professor of Political Science
Columbia University

Stephan Haggard

Jack Snyder

Steven Weber

Robert Keohane

Response by Stephan Haggard
Response by Robert Keohane
Peter Katzenstein
Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies
Cornell University



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