President Jane Dammen McAuliffe

cordially invites you to a lecture by

The Rachel Hale Professor in

Science and Mathematics

Clark R. McCauley

“Political Radicalization:

Are We Winning the War of Ideas

Against Jihadi Terrorism?”

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
4 p.m.
Thomas 110 - Bryn Mawr College

Reception to follow in The London Room, Thomas Hall

Clark McCauley uses a pyramid model of radicalization to argue that sympathy for terrorist goals can be distinguished from support for terrorist attacks.  He presents polling data to show how sympathy and support for terrorism can be tracked over time.  These data indicate that the U.S. is not winning the war of ideas against jihadist terrorism.