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OBAMA BOLDLY SEEKS TO HEAL US SCORES IN THE MIDEAST
Obama’s attempts to restore America’s credibility as an honest broker of peace have shaken the usual diplomatic niceties and political dynamics in the Middle East, writes Dr. Anouar Boukhars. view article

ISLAM IN FRANCE AND GERMANY
The challenge for Germany and France today is to define what kinds of values are essential for their countries' secular model of society and what kinds are negotiable, argues Dr. Boukhars view article

EXPLOITING AL-QAEDA’S VULNERABILITIES
President Obama's policies are geared toward capitalizing on and accelerating al-Qaeda's internal divisions and continuing loss of Muslim support, says Dr. Anouar Boukhars view article

BETWEEN RADICALS AND AUTHORITARIANS
The average Moroccan, Algerian, Libyan or Egyptian citizen is stuck with two unpalatable choices, says Dr. Anouar Boukhars view article

THE MUSLIM BOOGEYMAN
If left unchecked, the suspicion and fear of Islam in the US can only become dangerously more pronounced, says Anouar Boukhars. view article

THE VULNERABILTY OF ARAB ECONOMIES
Dr. Boukhars’ provides his perspective on the weakness of the fundamentals of Middle Eastern economies.view article

NICOLAS SARKOZY AND THE POLITICS OF CONTINUITY
Read Dr. Boukhars’ assessment of the French president's first year in office.view article

IS FRANCE NEXT ON AL-QAEDA'S HIT LIST?
Read Dr. Boukhars’ assessment of the multiple terror threats facing France.view article

A COUNTRY UNDER SIEGE
Read Dr. Boukhars’ analysis of how the Pakistani army, under Musharraf's rule, has become an omnivorous business empire.view article

IRAQI TERROR TRIAL EXPOSES BELGIUM'S MUSLIM DILEMMA
Read Dr. Boukhars’ discussion of the significance of the recent start of the Belgian Iraq terror trial of six men accused of recruiting Europe's first female suicide bomber.. view article

JOINING THE DYNASTY CLUB
Read Dr. Boukhars’ analysis of the regional ramifications of the post-Mubarak era. view article

GERMANY ARRESTS FUEL FEAR OF HOMEGROWN TERRORISM
Read Dr. Boukhars’ analysis of how Europe has become a favorite target for Islamist terrorists. view article

MAURITANIA'S VULNERABILITY TO Al-QAEDA INFLUENCE
Read Dr. Boukhars’ recent analysis of the terrorist threat to Mauritania and the Maghreb.view article

NORTH AFRICA: THE DILEMMA OF THE SECULARISTS
Anouar Boukhars, Director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy, provides his perspective on the crisis of secular parties in North Africa.view article

 

THE THREAT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM TO GERMANY
Anouar Boukhars, Director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy, provides his perspective on Germany’s discomfort with its Muslim Minority. view article

 

AT THE CROSSROADS: SAUDI ARABIA’S DILEMMAS
In this article in the peer-reviewed journal of Conflict Studies, Dr. Boukhars traces the historical and the ideological roots of international and local jihadism as well as the evolution of Wahhabism from a retrograde but status quo-oriented philosophy into a radical ideology prone to violence and terrorism. view article

 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ONCE DELIVERED – AND CAN AGAIN
Anouar Boukhars considers the many successful instances in which U.S. foreign policy has engaged its “enemies” in discussion and dialogue to reach common, and even selfish, goals. Boukhars questions why such proven U.S. public diplomacy tactics are not applied in the post-9/11 world, particularly when it comes to Iran and Syria. view article

LESSONS FOR A “GRAND BRAGAIN” WITH IRAN AND SYRIA
Read Dr. Boukhars’ piece on Bitterlemons-international on how and why the US should engage Iran and Syria.. view article

ISLAM, JIHADISM AND DEPOLITIZATION IN THE FRENCH BANILEUES
Anouar Boukhars, Director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy, provides his perspective France and Its Muslims. view article

 

THE LONG HAUL IN MOROCCO
Anouar Boukhars, Director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy, provides his perspective on the challenges of democracy and development in Morocco. view article

 

SOMALIA’S REGIONAL PROXY WAR AND ITS INTERNAL DYNAMICS
Read Dr. Boukhars’ insights on the scramble for power in Somalia's violent and contorted clan-based politics. view article

 

UNDERSTANDING SOMALI ISLAMISM
Anouar Boukhars, Director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy, provides in-depth analysis of Somali Islamism and its three distinct types of activism: political, missionary and jihadi.  view article

 

SOMALIA : AFRICA'S HORN OF ANARCHY
Read Anouar Boukhars’ piece in the Jamestown Terrorism Monitor on the threat of jihadi Islamism in Somalia  view article

 

RADICAL ISLAM IN MAURITANIA

Read this insightful article by Anouar Boukhars on radical Islam in Mauritania  view article

 

TERRORISM IN MOROCCO

Read this insightful article by Anouar Boukhars on the origins of militancy and salafism in Morocco.  view article

 

THE MIND OF JIHAD:
Laurent Murawiec, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C, provides analysis of the jihadi mindset in this article at the Wilberforce Quarterly.view article
 

JIHADI WEBSITES:
Reuven Paz, founder and director of the Project for the Research of Islamist Movements—PRISM—in the GLORIA Center, discusses the credibility of jihadi web sites in Arabic as a source for information in the Wilberforce Quarterly. view article

 

HAMAS:

Omar Karmi, a reporter for the Jordan Times, discusses a strategy for how to incorporate HAMAS moderates in the political system. view article

 

SAUDI ARABIA::

Read Anouar Boukhars’s conference paper on the Crisis of Legitimacy in Saudi Arabia view article

 

CLASH WITHIN ISLAM::

Read Anouar Boukhars’s conference paper on the clash of theologies within Islam view article

 

James Lee Witt, former Director of FEMA, analyses the role that the Military should play in natural
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Anouar Boukhars, Director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy, analyses in this critical essay at Strategic Insights the challenges of extremism and terrorism in Jordan. [More...]

Ahmed Hashim, senior professor at the Naval War, College, discusses the motivations and rationales of the Iraqi Insurgency in the Wilberforce Quarterly journal. [More...]

Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), discusses the scourge of Oil terrorism in a piece he contributed to the Wilberforce Quarterly journal. [More...]

Sherifa Zuhur, distinguished visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College, analyses a new strategy for the new jihad in this article at the Wilberforce Quarterly journal. [More...]

 
 

 


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