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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 122–123.
Published: 01 June 2011
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 82–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... classified cables on the meeting. I acknowledged the obstacles the two moderate-nationalist Afghan commanders would face, but wrote that their strategy had a better chance of driving the Taliban and al-Qaida from Afghanistan than any American strategy I had seen. The plan was to be Afghan-led and implemented...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 83–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of these ‘hell fireballs’ from those pipes.” today, the seeds planted by those al-qaida fighters have morphed into direct support for isis. No matter what the Turkish government does to try and stop ISIS, many in Şanlıurfa remain distrustful and think Turkey needs to do more. “All the people...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 70–79.
Published: 01 June 2013
... quo as an ongoing threat. Al-Qaida linked militancy is spreading into Russia’s periphery and beyond. Russia will not allow the North Caucasus to secede and will never recognize the Caucasus Emirate. The region poses too much of a potential security risk to Moscow to tolerate even a modicum...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 77–83.
Published: 01 September 2015
... diplomatic relations with Syria have always existed and were at the root of our initiative. Indeed, the resolution of the civil war in Syria may well hold the key to thwarting many of the most pernicious challenges to the world order—from the Islamic State to al-Qaida in the Levant—and bring many...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 63–76.
Published: 01 March 2013
... commanders in the field and angered the Americans by giving units direct orders. Maliki seldom slept and spent hours around the clock monitoring troop operations from his office. For Maliki, the killings and excesses of the Shiites paled before the first enemy—al-Qaida and the Baath. After President...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 7–13.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Reus Florence—Faith made a sudden breakthrough into contemporary global politics with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. From the Taliban to al-Qaida, the following three decades have been full of international tensions where faith was a leading factor, but this unease has by no means been...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 113–121.
Published: 01 September 2016
... included al-Qaida, the Armed Islamic Group, and many others. Typically these groups had only a small number of members and were always harshly put down by their governments. Their emergence was important, however, for showing the depth of despair among some Arabs who had given up on peaceful change...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 69–78.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-hegemonic role in the wider Central Asian region. For years, Afghanistan has been a kind of imaginary terrain for geopolitical projections. This was the place where the al-Qaida attacks of September 11, 2001, had been planned and set in motion. Hence, the initial intervention was focused on stripping...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 88–92.
Published: 01 June 2002
... atrocities in Latin America is Nicaragua, South Korea, Argentina, Chile, rather stronger than the evidence linking the Philippines and Indonesia” had been the al-Qaida training camps to the attack on “killed in all cases by forces inspired and New York,” European governments should...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2011
... to alcoholism, Russia has evolved only marginally from the communist or even the earlier tsarist era. Map Room reveals some surprising truths about what the people of Yemen think about al-Qaida. Finally, World Policy Journal editor David A. Andelman, in his Coda, reflects on how little Muammar Gaddafi has...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 50–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Beginning in 2000, breakaway groups, which allied themselves with such notorious terror organizations as the Jemaah Islamiyah and al-Qaida, launched a series of kidnap-for-ransom attacks, setting off a decade of bloody battles with government forces. Members of a Philippine marine landing team prepare...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 108–118.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of Ankara and large-scale trafficking across the Turkish-Syrian border by jihadists from across the world. In North Africa, fighters loyal to the Islamic State or various offshoots of al-Qaida and other jihadist splinter groups have turned Libya into an all but failed state, and are setting their targets...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 91–100.
Published: 01 June 2016
... on Twitter and Facebook, ADF stayed away from social media. To discourage people from escaping and providing information about the group’s activities, ADF beheaded or crucified people caught trying to flee. The Ugandan government occasionally stated that ADF was working with al-Qaida and al-Shabab...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 83–86.
Published: 01 June 2017
... months, there are several signposts that will indicate just how far the new militarism will go and what shape it will take. Congress is being pressured to pass a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) to justify drone attacks outside the territory of al-Qaida and associated forces. While...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 34–40.
Published: 01 June 2018
...? That fantasy proved short-lived, for as media researcher Gavan Titley so memorably put it, Breivik “called a war, but no one came.” Even al-Qaida, hardly known for its humanistic impulses, took exception to Breivik mimicking the group’s savage rhetoric of indiscriminate mayhem and murder by declaring...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 73–79.
Published: 01 December 2016
... challenges that leave them with few alternatives. This is why countering these narratives alone is not enough—and why programs that address issues like joblessness can yield measurable results. With violent images of the Islamic State, al-Qaida, or Boko Haram so often dominating Western media...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 45–51.
Published: 01 September 2011
...? General Shaw: It’s a very good question. I don’t know if there’s a good answer. WPJ: Does it worry you that they might be poised to do something like that? General Shaw: It worries me an awful lot. The state may indeed assume that the opposition does use cyberspace. Al-Qaida, for instance...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 83–91.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., American forces captured the lead kidnapper—an alleged senior al-Qaida commander known as Abu Nur—and turned him over to Iraqi authorities. But the killings gave Vladimir Putin an excuse to propose new legislation, allowing new and more lethal operations abroad. Aside from their retributive aims...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 73–81.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... The provincial government has also launched “Pakhtunkhwa FM Radio,” to win back listeners lost to the jihadist radio stations. When the Taliban arrived, driven across the border from Afghanistan after the American-led military operation against them and their al-Qaida allies, they first targeted women...