The alleged “existential crisis” has been linked to the populist upheaval that drove a simple majority of Britons to vote to leave the EU.
The Telegraph, The Guardian, CNN, Money, and social media say that's what we should believe, and that thet “existential crisis” exists among Brexiteers in Great Britain too.
Just ask new Tory foreign secretary and super Toff, Boris Johnson, who just last year (born in the USA, BoJo was a dual national) renounced his US citizenship...
Tajikistan’s response to the threat of violent radicalization has largely taken the form of aggressive religious repression, which, some say, is highly counterproductive. President Emomali Rahmon’s regime has taken the clergy firmly under its control, for example, by requiring pre-approval of all sermon topics, and has also enacted laws to restrict Islamic practices and expressions of “foreign Islam,” for instance, forcing women to remove their hijabs. As of January 2016,...
A recent address by senior State Department official Daniel Rosenblum signaled a shift in the direction of American policy in Central Asia, reflecting some critical economic, political and security developments in the area. The June 9th speech comes after an unprecedented five-country tour of Central Asia-- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-- by Secretary of State Kerry last November.
In the same address to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year, Rosenblum...
On June 29, 2014, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the head of what was then known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, proclaimed the establishment of the Caliphate. Two years on, in summer 2016, the Islamic State celebrated its “birthday” with a spate of terror strikes.
The Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammed Al Adnani released ...
... domestic political processes in the United States. Overall, however, the desire of the GCC states to gain external support will complicate the building of a regional security system in the coming years.
Point No. 7.
The territorial terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), which has emerged in immediate proximity to the GCC’s borders, constitutes a new threat. It’s not only its quite probable expansion into Jordan and Yemen where IS is already active that is dangerous. What’s really ...
... archaic narrative (and not only archaic) is not initially given (as in the case of genuine premodernism), but results from a conscious choice, while the latter is a modernist phenomenon.
Lucas Dolega of EPA
What do young men and women
that travel to the Islamic State
seek? Young people discussed it in 2011 on
Tunisia’s central Bourguiba Avenue and
Egypt’s Tahrir Square. Freedom, justice,
and dignity were the three most popular
words of the Arab Spring.
Therefore, we can return to the ...
... instability from Afghanistan to the north and to the Central Asian states that border Russia;
— Russia’s transformation from a transit country into a market for Afghan heroin, which kills 25,000 Russians every year;
— the formation of Islamic State (DAISH) Infrastructure in Afghanistan, which may start exporting its practices to the Russian North Caucasus and the Volga region.
In this regard, the question being discussed in Russia is whether Moscow should once again interfere in the ...
International coordination, for example, played a useful role enhancing intelligence and security at the olympics in Sochi and London.
In Russia and Great Britain, awareness of extremist threats is embedded among the society because people in both nations know what it feels like to have their homeland attacked by terrorists.
Brazil, which hosts the Rio Olympics in July, has never experienced a terrorist attack.
Now, amidtst the worst political and economic crisis in its history Brazil has...
... Corporation of New York and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
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. Our deliberations have also been informed by reports prepared by the four think tanks supporting the work of the Task Force, available at www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org.
2
. Acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham, also referred to as IS or Daesh.
3
. Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, OHCHR, 11 February 2016, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/ CoISyria/A-HRC-31-68....
... analysis of the most common factors driving recruitment.
This paper also includes a review of methods used by other countries to combat the recruitment of terrorists, as well as measures taken to reintegrate returning militants into society.
— Summary
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Islamic State Volunteers. Who are they?
Recruiting Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Dealing with Returnees: European Experience and the Prospects for Russia
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