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Tag: Islamism

The Strategy of Savagery: Explaining the Islamic State

February 24, 2015
David Martin Jones and M.L.R. Smith
The Strategy of Savagery: Explaining the Islamic State

The Dawn Divides: The Islamic State and Libya’s Inter-Islamist War

February 11, 2015
Amanda Kadlec and Hassan Morajea
The Dawn Divides: The Islamic State and Libya’s Inter-Islamist War

(W)Archives: Terrorism a Century Ago

January 23, 2015
Mark Stout
(W)Archives: Terrorism a Century Ago

Besting Boko Haram

January 20, 2015
Alice Hunt Friend
Besting Boko Haram

Turkey’s Proxy War in Libya

January 15, 2015
Aaron Stein
Turkey’s Proxy War in Libya

From Estonia Without Love for the Islamic State

September 6, 2014
Michael Noonan
From Estonia Without Love for the Islamic State

Crescent Over The Thames

September 3, 2014
Jonathan Bronitsky
Crescent Over The Thames

Libya: Hifter’s Stalled Anti-Islamist Campaign

July 15, 2014
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Oren Adaki, and Nathaniel Barr
Libya: Hifter’s Stalled Anti-Islamist Campaign

Who’s Killing Pakistan’s Shia and Why?

May 20, 2014
C. Christine Fair
Who’s Killing Pakistan’s Shia and Why?

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