Ian Shapiro's Containment featured in NYTBR!

Ian Shapiro’s “Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror” (Princeton University Press) is featured in a fascinating New York Times Book Review front page essay by Samantha Power of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government :

“Shapiro shows how aggressive action has played into the hands of terrorist recruiters… ‘The idea behind containment,’ Shapiro writes, ‘is to refuse to be bullied while at the same time declining to become a bully.’
“Shapiro is at his most persuasive when he argues against lumping Islamic radical threats together…. Had President Bush adopted Shapiro’s approach on Sept. 12, 2001, it is quite likely that he would have had more success in marginalizing adversaries….”

This thoughtful essay, appearing in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, is not to be missed.