Can Free Trade Stop Terrorism?
August 15th, 2008 by Amanda
In an opinion piece at the Wall Street Journal, Edward Gresser and Marc Dunkelman declare free trade as an important means to fight terrorism. Their logic follows that if markets are opened in Muslim countries their economies will boom, which will then lead the “unemployed, embittered youth” to be less “susceptible to the sirens of Islamic fundamentalism” and terrorist the acts associated with it.
Although the authors recognize that corruption and political repression are factors in breeding of extremist attitudes, they posit that “few things could do more to combat terrorist recruitment than draining the pools of angry and unemployed youth that are spread across this region. “
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