Craig Eisendrath

About the author: Craig Eisendrath is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., and the author of The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion.

The United States responded to the attacks of September 11, 2001, with unilateral military force. Rather than responding to future terrorist threats the same way, the United States should work to forge an international coalition against terrorism. America should return to the multilateral approach it embraced briefly at the end of World War II. It should work with the United Nations to create an international deployment force, an international criminal court, a worldwide arms control program, and better policies for aiding world economic and social development and human rights...