Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading

ASP: In Case You Missed It… 12 February 2015   International News Coverage   Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism   Islamic State interview claims widow of Paris attacker sheltered in Syria Griff Witte and Brian Murphy / The Washington Post The partner of one...

Central Asia: Five Key Issues

Central Asia has been the intersection between Europe and Asia for over 3000 years. Civilizations from India to the Caspian Sea have risen and fallen. The rugged landscape has been the setting of brutal and destructive warfare as well as for the flow of goods, ideas,...

Four Maps that Explain Islam in Asia

Islam transcends the Middle-Eastern corridor with which most Westerners associate it, stretching from the western coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean. It contains an incredible variety of different sects, beliefs, and traditions, most of which firmly reject the...

What We Are Reading… June 04, 2014

Inside the Obama administration’s debate over freeing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Adam Goldman and Scott Wilson / Washington Post Within months of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s capture in Afghanistan, the Obama administration began considering plans for a rescue.   U.S....