Category: Current Affairs

Lincoln Mitchell Discusses Georgian Crisis on NPR

Lincoln A. Mitchell, author of the forthcoming Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia’s Rose Revolution, provided background information on the current conflict in Georgia for National Public Radio listeners… READ MORE

Looking Beyond the Political in China

In this essay Vera Schwarcz, Director/Chair of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and author of Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden, hopes that… READ MORE

Change Isn’t Coming

In a recent article for The National Interest online, Nikolas K. Gvosdev cites Thomas M. Nichols in his argument that foreign policy change in the form of a return to… READ MORE

A Sageman Newsweek Preview

An excerpt of Christopher Dickey’s interview with Marc Sageman is available at www.newsweek.com. The complete interview is scheduled to appear in print in the July 28 edition of Newsweek.

Sageman Cited in Two Economist.com Articles

In yesterday’s Economist.com, two articles on the state of terrorism mention the work of forensic psychiatrist and counterterrorism expert Marc Sageman. In one article, "Winning or losing," The Economist credits Sageman’s… READ MORE

Reparations to Africa — Now Available

Reparations to Africa Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann. With Anthony P. Lombardo 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4101-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania… READ MORE

Sageman Warns of Web Wannabes

"The world’s most dangerous jihadists no longer answer to al-Qaeda. The terrorists we should fear most are self-recruited wannabes who find purpose in terror and comrades on the Web. This… READ MORE