Syria was among the first nations to be added to the State Department’s proscribed list. It has been removed under the rule of a former al-Qaida-affiliated militant.
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A State Department report on this alleged problem is new, but its claims about alleged communist machinations being behind activist movements in the US are old.
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure or record of deadly attacks.
Recent military and economic pressure on Cuba, including Trump’s threats of a ‘friendly takeover’ of the island, follow a long pattern of US hostility toward its southern neighbor.
Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
Kristi Noem’s claim that antifa is like the Islamic State group blurs the line between protest and terrorism – a political move unsupported by evidence.
The elimination of the Business and Human Rights team strips US companies of critical guidance just as new international laws raise the stakes.
The elimination of offices within Homeland Security and the State Department may force US counterterrorism efforts to rely on a solely military approach, which has proven ineffective.
Foreign terrorism accounts for a miniscule portion of violence in the United States.
As the fate of US cultural exchange programs is debated, one foreign policy historian recounts how such programs have made it ‘harder to hate people you really know.’
The president’s apparent strategy is attempting to eliminate the agency on his own authority, while asking Congress to finish the job, an education expert writes.
The United States spends very little on foreign aid relative to the size of its economy.
Neither Trump nor Biden has marshaled the full force of the nation’s anti-terrorism efforts against right-wing extremist groups.
Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, will begin his confirmation hearing on Jan. 15.
Since the earliest days of the nation, any person born on US soil is a US citizen. A new Supreme Court ruling limits judges’ ability to block Trump’s order.
While US presidents have consistently said that a two-state solution is the only way forward to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the US has blocked Palestine from being fully recognized at the UN.
Cuban has yo-yoed on and off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. Is the Biden administration changing that?
Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
Turkey vs. Türkiye? When a country changes its name or requests changes to the spelling of its name, there are almost always political motives.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved Parliament rather than face a no-confidence vote. The Conversation asked an expert: What happens next?
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Professor of the Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College
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Richter Professor Emerita of Political Science, Swarthmore College
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Islamic History, UMass Dartmouth
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Research Fellow at Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of International Affairs, Penn State
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Ph.D. candidate, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
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Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland