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Daniel Byman
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Democratic Governments Are Failing to Leverage Technology Companies
The response was swift and broad. Within the first hours and days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and before many U.S. and allied sanctions had…
What Is a Terrorist Movement?
Definitions are the bane of terrorism analysis, and most are plagued with gaps, ambiguities, and inconsistencies. Even close allies do not agree on definitions of…
Al-Qaeda after al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who led al-Qaeda since Osama Bin Laden’s death in 2011, is dead from a U.S. drone strike on a residential area in Kabul….
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine? Evaluating the Benefits and Risks
The outpouring of support for beleaguered Ukraine is astounding: governments around the world are joining sanctions and shunning Russia. European governments, including many that previously…
Counterterrorism Successes Against Foreign Fighters
As I wrote in my book “Road Warriors” and in a recent spinoff article in Political Science Quarterly, jihadists who travel abroad to fight and…
The Failure of Counterterrorism After the Civil War
Editor’s Note: This article is drawn from my long, scholarly article, “White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States,” published in…
Is Change Likely in Iraq?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. Iraq is facing serious unrest that is likely to force limited reforms in the political…