What Challenges Does 2016 Hold for Sub-Saharan Africa?
This article was originally published by the Global Observatory on 20 January 2016. Akin to its physical landscape, the political environment of Sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 varied greatly from country...
View ArticleLibyan Lessons for Europe
This article was originally published by Carnegie Europe on 2 February 2016. Almost five years since the start of NATO’s military intervention in Libya, there is mounting speculation that a coalition...
View ArticleIs New Narrative on Fighting Extremism a Fantasy?
This article was originally published by the Global Observatory on 26 January 2016. Amid the past two weeks’ dehumanizing cataloging of death tolls from extremist violence—in Pakistan, Burkina Faso,...
View ArticleUnderstanding Youth Radicalization in the Age of ISIS: A Psychosocial Analysis
This article was originally published by E-International Relations on 11 February 2016. In December 2015, Malaysian police reported that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had set up camps in...
View ArticleNeither Remaining nor Expanding: The Islamic State’s Global Expansion Struggles
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 23 February 2016. Judging from the Islamic State’s propaganda, it would appear the group is rapidly overtaking the Muslim world. The Islamic...
View ArticleThe Struggle Over Bangladesh’s Future
This interview was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on 25 July 2016. On July 1, militants attacked a restaurant in one of the Bangladeshi capital’s affluent neighborhoods,...
View ArticleThe Coming of the Russian Jihad: Part 1
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 23 September 2016. On June 28, three suicide bombers entered the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, where they killed 45 people and injured 229....
View ArticleJihadi Networks in Switzerland: Regional Clusters and their Transnational Links
On 25 May 2018, the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, together with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) and the University of Lucerne, hosted a conference on “Jihadi...
View ArticleWhat We Know – and Don’t Know – about Religious Civil Wars
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 23 May 2018. Ongoing civil wars in Syria, Mali, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Uganda illustrate the need to...
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