by editor | Nov 3, 2014 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Bruce Gregory* Roxanne Cabral, Peter Engelke, Katherine Brown, and Anne Terman Wedner, “Diplomacy for a Diffuse World,” Issue Brief, Atlantic Council, September 2014. Cabral (US Department of State and former Atlantic Council senior fellow), Engelke...
by editor | Jun 4, 2014 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Bruce Gregory* J. Samuel Barkin, Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory, (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Barkin (University of Florida) has written a book of primary interest to IR theorists. However, his insights, clear prose, and...
by editor | Jun 3, 2014 | Africa, Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Publications, Strategic Comm.
CSC has released a new white paper: The Narrative Landscape of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Executive Summary This report presents the results of an analysis of the narrative landscape produced in texts by and about al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from 2007...
by editor | Apr 14, 2014 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Bruce Gregory* Hisham Aidi, “America’s Hip-Hop Foreign Policy,” The Atlantic, March 20, 2014. Aidi (Columbia University) examines changes in the musical genre hip-hop, its political and cultural dynamics, and its use by US and European governments as an...
by editor | Mar 9, 2014 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Publications, Research
Security vs. Liberty: The Discourse on Terrorism in the United States and Morocco and Its Societal Effects by Valentina Bartolucci, CSC Visiting Fellow Pre-press open access here. Abstract: This article first analyzes some of the main features of the political...
by editor | Nov 1, 2013 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Bruce Gregory* Christopher Anzalone, “The Nairobi Attack and Al-Shabab’s Media Strategy,” CTC Sentinel, October 2013, Vol. 6, Issue 10. Anzalone (McGill University) looks at al-Shabab’s media strategy using micro-blogging on Twitter and audio...