Two Decades of Combating Terrorism: a ‘democracy advantage’?
Nearly four times as many Sunni Islamic militants are operating around the world today as on Sept. 11, 2001, despite nearly two decades of American-led campaigns to combat Al… Read more »
Category: countering violent extremism
Biggest threat to democracy ‘coming from within’?
For years after the end of the Cold Year it was possible to believe democracy was on the march across the globe. Now there are as many reasons to believe… Read more »
Terrorism vs. the West: an age of extremes
Western democracies experienced 68 terrorist attacks in 2017, highlighting a threat increasingly generated not by a single form of extremism but by various extremist ideologies, according to a new analysis…. Read more »
Not In Our Name: Countering Violent Extremist Mobilization
The challenge Central Asian communities face from extremist groups is real. According to estimates, countries of the former Soviet Union were the largest single source of foreign fighters in the… Read more »
Iranian actions ‘actively threaten’ Iraqi democracy
The United States announced last month that it intends to keep troops in Syria to support Kurdish-led fighters there until the Islamic State has been completely routed and the area stabilized, notes… Read more »
‘Flawed strategy’ failing to counter Islamist extremism
The threat from Islamist militants is growing and the current approach for tackling the threat will fail unless there is a global strategy to tackle the roots of extremism, says… Read more »
How fragile states breed violent extremism
Each fragile state is fragile in its own way, but they all face significant governance and economic challenges. In fragile states, governments lack legitimacy in the eyes of citizens, and… Read more »
Algeria’s Mouwatana: ‘opportunity for building energetic dissent’?
Algerian police recently arrested a number of political and human rights activists and journalists who protested in central Algiers against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s bid for re-election for a fifth term,… Read more »
Democratization ‘no longer the key’ to defeating jihadism?
Democratization is no longer treated as the key to victory over jihadism or violent extremism, argues Steven Metz, the author of “Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy.” “Throughout the… Read more »
‘Marshall Plan’ program would counter extremist distortions of Islam
In his new book, The House of Islam, former Islamist radical Ed Husain arrives at the conclusion that the spread of this rigid, literalist interpretation of Islam “rejected by the vast majority… Read more »