2021 is also the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring, a moment when the world held its breath while citizens of countries across North Africa and the Arab Middle East rose up against corrupt authoritarian governments in a bid to end chronic poverty, oppression, and inequality... 

In 2010, after decades serving in special operations forces deployed throughout Africa and from the Balkans to the Middle East, I wrote a paper about the use of terrorism as a tactic in revolutionary change...

On the sunny morning of 11 April 2018, Russian cyber operator Aleksej Sergejvitsj Morenets left the Moscow headquarters of the GRU, Russia’s main military intelligence directorate, to take a taxi to the airport. At the airport, he joined his cyber colleague Yevgeni Michajlovitsj Serebrakov and two support agents...

Religious radicalization in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed, Muslim-majority country of 195 million souls, has been a source of concern to its neighbors and others around the world for a long time...

Within the first five pages of his book, How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, ethicist Rushworth Kidder draws a clear distinction between true ethical dilemmas and what he calls moral temptations...

After 18 years of perpetual warfare, the new American generation will struggle to imagine a world in which their country is not in conflict...

There is a hidden world around us. Chances are, you see it daily but don’t recognize the signs. The strange symbol that is spray-painted on an overpass, the guy in the team jacket at the grocery store, or the person with unusual tattoos passing you by on the street may be communicating something vital about your community that you fail to recognize...

Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a new form of jihadism emerged—global jihad. With this book, Glenn E. Robinson develops a provocative argument about this violent political movement's evolution...