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Global war on terror blog weekly round-up

Iran J.J. Hodari argues for action against Iran. Andrew Sullivan is pessimistic about the prospects for stopping Iran getting a nuclear weapon. Foreign Policy looks at China’s negative role in the Middle East. Mehdi Hassan argues that Iran’s desire for …...

Book review: The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda

Manuel Almeida is in LSE’s Department of International Relations. Here he reviews the latest book from LSE’s Professor Fawaz Gerges entitled The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, published by the Oxford University Press. On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 …...

GWOT weekly round-up (November 11)

Egypt Issandr El Amrani discusses US policy towards Egypt in The Arabist Iran Jennifer Dyer discusses the latest IAEA report on Iran. Juan Cole believes the IAEA report is flawed. Wired’s Spencer Ackerman and Noah Schachtman disucss Mitt Romney’s shifting …...

Anonymous vs. the Muslim Brotherhood?

Apparently Anonymous has decided to take on the Ikhwan day after tomorrow.  I’m curious what if anything will come of this.  Probably nothing, but I’m prepared to be wrong.  (I sort of hope I’m wrong, actually, as I’m not an enormous fan of the...

New Volume on Countering Violent Extremism

by Steven R. Corman NSI has just released a new edited volume (PDF here) that should be of interest to COMOPS Journal readers.  Entitled Countering Violent Extremism: Scientific Methods and Strategies, it contains the latest thinking on the subject, including a...