by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Apr 8, 2013 | Monitor
More thoughtful analyts know that militant Islamic momvements existed long before September 11th. I make it an effort to collect books on political Islam, Islamism, jihad-centered groups, etc that predate 2001. This, in order to view radical movements without the...
by Raymond Miller | Feb 27, 2013 | Monitor
By: Raymond Miller Miller traces the history of conflict resolution and negotiation during the four Tuareg rebellions in Mali, focusing primarily on the role of ideology.
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
In May 2009, Abu Abdullah Ahmed, leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) then newly-established "political committee" ("Comité Médiatique" in the French release), sat down for an interview with AQIM’s media wing, al-Andalus Media. The...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 11, 2012 | Monitor
Lessons Learned and Taught In the second edition of his autobiography – Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet – Zawahiri comes to a logical mid-point in this the first part of his narrative: September 11th. As a I noted here, Knights isn’t a linear...
by admin | Sep 14, 2009 | White Papers
by Angela Trethewey, Steven R. Corman & Bud Goodall Ideology is often ignored or deemed irrelevant to strategic communication because it is an old, possibly leftist, idea that is associated with academic social critique. It is treated as something that lives in...