FPRI’s Marc Sageman Interviewed by David Ignatius in Washington Post Story on Radicalization
“Blaming the Internet for radicalization is really blaming any form of communication for radicalization…Mere exposure to wrong ideas can...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Scholars in the News
A nation must think before it acts.
FPRI’s Clint Watts Cited in Catholic Online on Threat of Lone-Wolf Terrorism
“Today’s jihadi threat, blended between Al-Qaeda and ISIS, networked by Facebook, and evolving based on conditions in hundreds of...
FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in Voice of America on Arab Foreign Fighters
“They seek political power — is ultimately what they are trying to do in their local environments in...
FPRI’s Barak Mendelsohn Quoted in New York Daily News on the U.S.’s Absence from Paris March
“It’s puzzling. I cannot find any logical explanation for this and just don’t buy the logistics argument…It’s not the...
FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in Newsmax’s on Jihadists’ Use of Cyber-Recruiting
“Thirty years ago it took a long time to get everyone to Afghanistan…Now they propagate through social media, that’s...
FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in International Business Times on “Broad-Based Jihad”
“…there are three kinds of terrorists in operation, inspired, networked and directed terrorists, and all of them can be linked....
FPRI’s Clint Watts Cited in Slate on ISIS-al-Qaida Connection
“…in the days following the attack, the big question was whether ISIS or al-Qaida was involved. The answer likely...
FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in Buzzfeed on Hostage Taker’s Allegiance To ISIS
“I think the ISIS angle is nothing more than this Coulibaly pledging allegiance to them…Don’t give these guys too...
FPRI’s Ed Turzanski Interviewed on Talk Radio 120 WPHT about Charlie Hebdo
“If we’re going to devote the resources we do to trying to find the connections…and despite these connections being...
FPRI’s Mac Owens to Join Institute of World Politics as Dean and Professor of Military Strategy
“‘Dr. Owens is one of America’s most prominent strategic thinkers,’ commented IWP founder and president John Lenczowski. ‘He has served...