Najam in Boston Herald: Global Response to ISIS
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, told the Boston Herald (November 15, 2015) that the response to ISIS should not just be a French, or even just a NATO, response but should be a global response. Because, he says, this is a global threat and an existential threat to the whole world.
Quoted in a news story titled “Amid sorrow France makes pledge to destroy ISIS,” Najam told the Boston Herald that this would include both the US and Russia rethinking their current sparring and focusing on the common threat that they, and the world faces.
From the text of the news story:
Adil Najam, the dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, told the Herald that even nations with tense rivalries, such as between the United States and Russia, must consider the prospect of allying to defeat a greater ISIS threat.
“In recent months we have stumbled back to thinking that our main problem is Russia, not what’s happening in Syria,” said Najam. “The Russians are doing the same. … Maybe we should go back to the Second World War where we realized that there was a threat that was bigger than what you thought about Stalin.”
Najam also told the Herald that an effective global response would also include the Muslim world joining in not just a ‘coalition of the willing’ but a ‘coalition of the whole.’
Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies and was the former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan. His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, diasporas, global higher education, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Learn more about him here.