Defining Ideas by topic: Islamism and International Order

May 23, 2013
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What is Hezbollah?

by Fouad Ajami (Senior Fellow and cochair, Working Group on Islamism and the International Order)
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The ‘Party of God,’ brought to you from Beirut—or ‘Little Tehran.’
May 16, 2013
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Obama’s Iran Gamble

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)
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The Administration thinks it can contain the Islamic Republic, but our intelligence suggests otherwise.
May 2, 2013
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Terrorism and The Obama Doctrine

by Kenneth Anderson (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law) and Benjamin Wittes (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
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What is the administration’s position on critical national security questions?
March 28, 2013
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Game of Drones

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)
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For a risk-averse, budget-cutting United States, the new technology offers an ideal way forward in the fight against terrorism.
March 20, 2013
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The Banality of Evil

by Fouad Ajami (Senior Fellow and cochair, Working Group on Islamism and the International Order)
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What has become of the perpetrators of murder and genocide in Cambodia, Iraq, and other war-torn regions of the world?
March 6, 2013
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The View From Tehran

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)
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In the decades-long confrontation between Iran and the United States, Iran thinks it’s winning.
February 25, 2013
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Is the "War on Terror" Lawful?

by Robert Chesney, Jack Goldsmith (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law), Matthew Waxman (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law), and Benjamin Wittes (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
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The "Authorization to Use Military Force" serves as the primary legal foundation for the ongoing conflict, but it is now obsolete. What should replace it?
February 6, 2013
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The Coming War in the Middle East

by Lieutenant Colonel Joel Rayburn (contributor to the working group on Islamism and the international order)
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Imagine a sectarian conflagration, fueled by Al Qaeda, raging across the Fertile Crescent.
January 24, 2013
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We the Cyber Warriors

by Jeremy Rabkin and Ariel Rabkin
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The Founding Fathers’ solutions for 21st-century problems.
January 2, 2013
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The Art of Protest in 2012

by Camille Pecastaing (Contributor to the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order)
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In the Middle East, violence appears to be the great equalizer.