Center for Strategic Communication

It’s Not About Us

By: James Thomas Snyder Protests in the Middle East are about a power struggle in the Muslim world triggered by the democratic uprisings of the Arab Spring.

On Eric Hobsbawm

I was going to comment on the death of the famed historian who was the Soviet Union’s most venerable and shameless apologist, but I was beaten to it in a brilliant piece by British blogger and fellow Chicago Boyz member, Helen Szamuely: A great Communist crime...

New Book: Mission Revolution by Jennifer Morrison Taw

Mission Revolution: The US Military and Stability Operations by Jennifer Morrison Taw Columbia University Press just sent me a review copy of Mission Revolution: The US Military and Stability Operations by Jennifer Morrison Taw, an assistant professor of IR/Security...

Obama’s Foreign Policy Gamble on the Moderate Islamists

As you probably already know, the US Embassy in Cairo Egypt was stormed today by Islamists supposedly angry about a video on Youtube supposedly made or endorsed by anti-Muslim Quran-burner and bigot Rev. Terry Jones. The embassy, deliberately left without sufficient...

Pussy Riot VI: counterpoint and counterfactuals

[ by Charles Cameron — compare and contrast as a means of contextualizing, suggesting a tool that might be of use to the IC in any number of circumstances ] . In this particular case, Pussy Riot is the topic, comparison with is the method, and some form of...