Outside Publications

Qatar may have dialed back its support for Islamist movements, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be best friends again with Egypt and the Gulf states. Much has been said in recent days about the perceived thaw in Egyptian-Qatari relations....

PHILADEPHIA – “Torture” is one of those words that is used so indiscriminately as to have lost all meaning. This is clear from discussions about the recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report regarding the use of “enhanced interrogation” techniques (EITs) on...

CASABLANCA—As a frequent visitor to Paris, I’ve had many chances to browse the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. And as an Arab Muslim who believes that his faith is inherently moderate and tolerant, I feel that some of its pages...

With the enthusiasm surrounding the election of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, some have again speculated as to whether Indonesia will become the regional leader in Southeast Asia. That was the central question behind Joseph Chinyong Liow’s “Can Indonesia Fulfill...

Atlantic Council  Jordan’s government-influenced media has declared the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) as an affront to Islam and human dignity and availed itself to the coalition fighting the militant group. Jordan hosts an undisclosed number of US troops...

After years of being treated as a niche topic, the rise of the “Islamic State” in Syria and Iraq has moved the issue of foreign fighters from academic journals and wonky conferences to the front pages of major newspapers....

Southeast Asia’s military modernization over the last half decade has been impressive. Defense expenditures across the region have risen, on average, by nine percent each year since 2009, but the region’s countries have not been uniform in their approaches....

Abstract Based on extensive archival research with newly available Iraqi state and Ba‘th Party documents, this article attempts to shed light on the Saddam Husayn regime’s relationship with Islamists and Islamism, arguing that it instrumentalized Islam in its foreign...

Home-Grown Terrorism – Russia’s Ticking Bomb. Published in: ISN Zurich. July 8, 2014.  By: Maia Otarashvili and Aleksandr Fisher ...

Sarah Bush, “Are We Repeating Democracy Promotion Mistakes in Tunisia?” The Middle East Channel of Foreign Policy (2012). Link: https://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/09/are_we_repeating_democracy_promotion_mistakes  ...