Islam and Islamism Today: The Case of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
INTRODUCTION Many consider Yusuf al-Qaradawi to be the most influential living Islamic scholar. He is viewed as the spiritual...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Islam and Islamism Today: The Case of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
A nation must think before it acts.
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Abdurrahman Wahid, The Indonesian Republic, and Dynamics in Islam
Premises of a Republic Wahid was five years old in 1945 at the time of Indonesia’s revolutionary founding as...
Reforming the Afghan National Army (ANA)
Reforming the Afghan National Army (ANA) Getting the most out of the ANA, so we can do less Current...
What Afghans Want
Bleak Prospects Since President Barack Obama’s election in November 2008, countless official reviews, academic studies and popular articles have...
Disrupting the Foreign Fighter Flow
On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have confronted third-party national combatants. Widely...
Politics, Terrorism, and the Sunni Divide
Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood are two distinct forms of Sunni Islamism. They have separate histories and separate worldviews....
Reforming the Afghan National Police – Executive Summary
Download the Full Report. Afghanistan represents one of the biggest attempts by the international community at state-building since the...
Towards a Balanced and Sustainable Defense
In a notable essay in Foreign Affairs, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has directly challenged his strategists and the...
Toward an Intelligence-based Nuclear Cooperation Regime
At their recent Moscow summit, Presidents Obama and Medvedev articulated a common concern over what Medvedev called “negative trends...
Palestinian Security Reform: A Moment of Truth
One of the many factors, terrorism aside, that has hindered the Palestinian people from obtaining a state has been...