The November 2015 Paris Attacks: The Impact of Foreign Fighter Returnees
Abstract This article provides an in-depth analysis of the role of foreign fighter returnees in the attacks by the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The November 2015 Paris Attacks: The Impact of Foreign Fighter Returnees
A nation must think before it acts.
France
Just Terror: The Islamic State’s Use of Strategic “Framing” to Recruit and Motivate
Abstract This article examines the “framing” strategies employed by the Islamic State in espousing the group’s salafist-takfiri doctrine, which...
Revisiting the Iran Nuclear Deal
Abstract One of Donald Trump’s stated priorities when he becomes President is to kill the Nuclear Deal with Iran,...
President Trump
Al Majalla American presidential election campaigns, for all their pageantry and constantly increasing length, are generally predictable affairs. Although...
How We Misunderstand the Sources of Religious Violence
In these days and in this country, when most people hear the phrase “sources of religious violence,” they tend...
The Flawed Hope of Sufi Promotion in North Africa
Sufism has been repeatedly invoked in U.S. foreign policy circles as a possible ideological counterbalance to extremist ideologies in...
Seventy-five Years Ago: Remembering Pearl Harbor and a World at War
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor offers an opportunity to look back on the world-changing events...
Suspend the Iran Nuclear Agreement, Mr. Trump
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quick to warn President-elect Donald Trump that the United States is "duty-bound...
NATO’s Warsaw Summit Leaves Russia Isolated and Dangerous
Al-Majalla President Putin’s government’s actions over the past few years have left Russia largely isolated from majority of the...
Exceptionalism, Empire, and the Dark Side of National Greatness
This piece, originally a lecture given at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, contextualizes the notion of exceptionalism by looking at...