How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat - Hardcover

"Farah Pandith draws on her wide-ranging experience as a diplomat and communicator to lay out a comprehensive strategy against violent extremism. A timely book for government and civil society leaders."--Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and Cofounder and Executive Chairman of the Chertoff Group

"The private sector has a vital role to play in stopping violent extremism. Farah Pandith's revelatory How We Win is the playbook we've been waiting for. Read it and join in. Farah has much to tell us. The world will benefit from her insights."--Shelly Lazarus, Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy & Mather

"Farah has written a vitally important book on an incredibly important topic that for too long has received short shrift. Every policy maker involved in national security and foreign affairs needs to focus on how we still face a generational ideological challenge."--Michael Leiter, former Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center

"Farah Pandith offers a much-needed critique of nearly two decades of failed American efforts to counter violent extremist ideology. More important, she charts a thoughtful alternative course that demands the attention of policy makers and practitioners in the United States and around the world."--William J. Burns, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Jordan

"Essential for anyone who cares about security and the resilience of democratic values."--Leon E. Panetta, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and former CIA Director

"As former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, I was on the front lines of the war against violent extremists....I wish I'd had Farah Pandith's groundbreaking book then, and I hope that everyone concerned with stopping extremist violence and destruction will read it now."--Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO

"When the threat of terrorism triggers our instincts to lock ourselves down or shout each other down, Ms. Pandith tells us to suit up and open up. Having survived from the frontlines of bureaucratic infighting, she optimistically calls us to be outgoing."--Matthew Barzun, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden and former Chief Strategy Officer at CNET Networks

"No one knows more about the appeal of ideology on Muslim youth than Farah Pandith....I wish I'd had How We Win as a resource during my critical leadership efforts against Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Islamic State." --General John R. Allen, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), former Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan (2011-2013) and Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic St

"Sharp, incisive wisdom from someone who had a front-row seat at one of modern history's great inflection points... How We Win should be required reading for anyone interested in harnessing new ideas to tackle some of the world's toughest international security challenges." --Jared Cohen, Founder and CEO of Jigsaw

"For decades, policy makers, academics, and community leaders have struggled with the question How do people of good faith stop extremism in their midst? Pandith doesn't just ask the question but provides--for the first time--a concrete, detailed, and engaging answer." --Juliette Kayyem, former Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and Faculty Chair of the Homeland Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government