The Liberal Arts as Antidote to Political Extremism in the Middle East
By Allison Hodgkins and Ted Purinton. With ISIS-inspired terror attacks becoming an almost routine occurrence, there is renewed…
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A More Fitting Label for “Would-Be” Jihadists
Post by Allison Beth Hodgkins. When the news of explosions in New York and New Jersey and a…
Sleeper Agents or Big Yawn? Waiting for Returned Foreign Fighters
Guest post by David Malet. Western governments, increasingly alarmed by ISIS-inspired attacks in the West and fearing the…
What the Algerian Civil War Can Teach Us About Combating ISIS
Guest post by Kevin Greene In an op-ed for The National, Dr. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck notes the similarities between…
How a US Election Undermined Global Health
By Will H. Moore American President Barrack Obama will be inaugurated for a second term next month. Meanwhile,…
Friday Puzzler: Why Does the US Suddenly Prefer Its Enemies Dead?
By Barbara F. Walter It used to be that the United States liked to take its enemies alive…
The Banality of Violent Organizations
By Joe Young Before the now famous raid on the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, members of…