Center for Strategic Communication

Brief brief: of binding and loosing

[ by Charles Cameron — really just a note to myself, but you may read it over my shoulder ] . Joas Wagemakers, blogging on Jihadi-Salafi views of the Islamic State at the Washington Post, was talking about the “caliphate” today, and as usual, I went...

Political science: 1787 edition

John Francis Mercer Politics is the division of power. Or so it is axiomatic for me. Politics is also a market in violence-backed assets, with tribute, resource flows captured and secured by violence (or the threat thereof) being the most prized. Most political...

The prime directive

[cut and pasted by Lynn C. Rees] It has been the uniform policy of this Government, from its foundation to the present day, to abstain from all interference in the domestic affairs of other nations. The consequence has been that while the nations of Europe have been...

Atran and Husain on Gaza

[ by Charles Cameron — two voices of moderation with a glimmer of hope — plus a recap of some recent posts of mine ] . Scott Atran, Ed Husain. Scott Atran, an anthropologist at France’s National Center for Scientific Research, John Jay College and the...