The (Overblown) Concerns Linking Foreign Fighters, Civil Wars, and Terrorist Campaigns
Guest post by Alex Braithwaite and Tiffany Chu. More than 30,000 foreign fighters from 100 countries have entered…
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Is Europe Facing a Refugee Crisis?
By Patrick Pierson. On November 2nd, 239 migrants died crossing the Mediterranean en route from Libya to the…
Beyond ‘Methodological Nationalism’ in Global Security Studies
By Fiona B. Adamson for Denver Dialogues Last week’s news of terrorist attacks in Lahore and Brussels followed…
Why Nuking ISIS is a Really Bad Idea
By Barbara F. Walter. After every terrorist attack on a major Western city I hear the same thing:…
Interpreting the Migration Crisis: A Symposium
By Cassy Dorff, Faten Ghosn, Alex Braithwaite, and Andrew Linke for Denver Dialogues In 2015, the UN stated…
Context, Confirmation Bias, and the Crash of MetroJet 9286
By Allison Hodgkins With ISIS-inspired attacks cropping up almost every week, the October 31, 2015, crash of MetroJet…
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…
Democracy Is Still the Most Effective Tool to Fight Terrorism
Guest post by Belgin San-Akca In upcoming years, one of the most – if not the most –…
I Am Muslim
By Barbara F. Walter One of the disheartening after-effects of the Paris attacks has been how quick many…
Puzzling Aspects of the US Debate on Syrian Refugees
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman One thing that struck me about the reaction in the United States to…