by editor | Mar 28, 2010 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Government, Indonesia, Movements, Southeast Asia
by Mark Woodward, Ali Amin and Inayah Rohmaniyah* In recent months, Indonesian security forces, including the US-trained Detachment 88, have proven to be increasingly effective in locating, capturing or killing suspected terrorists. But police power alone will never...
by halverson | Mar 2, 2010 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Education, Image, Islam, Media, Popular Culture, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Jeff Halverson In the war of ideas for the “hearts and minds” of the Muslim world, cultural diplomacy can go a long way. The US government may not be very popular abroad, but our cultural products certainly are. Many Muslims hate our policies, but they...
by editor | Jan 11, 2010 | Analysis, Counterterrorism
by Steven R. Corman In today’s Washington Post, Bruce Hoffman published an op-ed piece entitled “Al-Qaeda has a new strategy. Obama needs one, too.” I have a lot of respect for Hoffman and whatever he says about terrorism bears consideration. But in...
by editor | Nov 7, 2009 | Counterterrorism, Media, Research, Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman I ran across an interesting research article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Communication entitled “‘Carrying online participation offline’–Mobilization by radical online groups and politically dissimilar offline...
by halverson | Sep 14, 2009 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Identification, Islam, Popular Culture
by Jeffry Halverson In the September 10 cover story on ForeignPolicy.com Jarret Brachman warns the Obama administration to pay careful attention to al-Qaeda’s new Libyan-born media darling, Abu Yahya al-Libi. He writes: Whether he’s shown traipsing through...
by editor | Sep 13, 2009 | Counterterrorism, Narrative, Publications, Strategic Comm.
The Consortium for Strategic Communication has just released a new white paper entitled Out of Their Heads and Into Their Conversation: Countering Extremist Ideology by Angela Trethewey, Steven R. Corman and Bud Goodall. The complete paper can be downloaded at...
