Round-Up Friday – March 20th – 25th
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March 25, 2016Terrorists attack Brussels; Serbian leader guilty of genocide; Obama goes…
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March 25, 2016
Brick by Brick: Building a Durable Strategy Against ISIS
Maya El-Darzi
May 14, 2015His name was Fadi. He was… References and Footnotes"Homeland Security Secretary Johnson on ISIS, Ebola, and Preventing Homegrown Terrorism," Council on Foreign Relations, September 10, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015, http://www.cfr.org/homeland-security/homeland-security-secretary-johnson-isis-ebola-preventing-homegrown-terrorism/p35716 ↩"ISIS By the Numbers: Foreign Fighter Total Keeps Growing," NBC News, February 28, 2015, accessed May 13, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-numbers-foreign-fighter-total-keeps-growing-n314731 ↩"Homeland Security Secretary Johnson on ISIS, Ebola, and Preventing Homegrown Terrorism," Council on Foreign Relations, September 10, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015, http://www.cfr.org/homeland-security/homeland-security-secretary-johnson-isis-ebola-preventing-homegrown-terrorism/p35716 ↩ "FACT SHEET: Strategy to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)," The White House, September 10, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/10/fact-sheet-strategy-counter-islamic-state-iraq-and-levant-isil[/ref] Finally, President Obama has ordered systematic airstrikes against ISIS held territories, in hopes of protecting “U.S. personnel and facilities in Baghdad and Erbil…, kill[ing] ISIS fighters, destroy[ing] ISIS equipment, [and] protect[ing] Iraqi critical infrastructure…” Ibid ↩Ibid ↩U.S. Department of Defense, “Operation Inherent Resolve,” April 2015, accessed May 13, 2013, http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2014/0814_iraq ↩RT News, “Jimmy Carter slams Obama’s handling of ISIS: ‘We waited too long,’” October 8, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015, http://rt.com/usa/194224-jimmy-carter-obama-isis ↩Richard Hall, “Just how many civilians have died in the West's campaign against ISIS?” The Week, April 23, 2015, accessed May 13, 2015, http://theweek.com/articles/551128/just-how-many-civilians-have-died-wests-campaign-against-isis ↩ Ibid ↩ "Ready for War with ISIS?" Foreign Affairs, December 14, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2014-12-14/ready-war-isis ↩Max Boot, "Defeating ISIS," Council on Foreign Relations, November 14, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015 ↩Thomas Ricks, "Fighting ISIS (II): To Work, This Must Be More than Just a Military Operation," Foreign Policy, October 30, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015. http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/30/fighting-isis-ii-to-work-this-must-be-more-than-just-a-military-operation ↩
“Steady as She Goes:” Diplomacy with Iran
Maya El-Darzi
May 4, 2015The Islamic Republic… References and FootnotesC. Hemmer, “Responding to a Nuclear Iran,” in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics, (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2010), 256. ↩M. Kibaroglu, “Good for the Shah, Banned for the Mullahs: The West and Iran's Quest for Nuclear Power,” Middle East Institute 60 no. 2 (2006): 209, retrieved April12, 2010, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4330247. ↩Ibid, 210. ↩Al Jazeera English, “Timeline: Iran's Nuclear Programme,” Al Jazeera English, April 9, 2010, retrieved on 12 April 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2007/12/20085251853218888.html ↩R. Rosenkranz, “Intelligence Squared U.S. Series” [radio transcript], The Rosenkranz Foundation, 2009, retrieved from http://intelligencesquaredus.org/wp-content/uploads/Diplomacy-with-Iran-051209.pdf ↩Hemmer, “Responding to a Nuclear Iran,” in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics, 255. ↩Barbara Slavin, “How Iran and world powers finally got to yes on a nuclear deal,” Al Jazeera English, November 23, 2014 retrieved on August 30, 2014, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/23/what-the-iran-nucleardealmeans.html ↩Ibid. ↩Rosenkranz, “Intelligence Squared U.S. Series” [radio transcript], 5. ↩Fred Kaplan, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008), 197. ↩“Counter Notes and Sources,” Fighting for a U.S. federal budget that works for all Americans, last modified March 10, 2014, accessed August 31, 2014, https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/notes-sources/. ↩Justine Hofherr, “How a Nuclear Deal With Iran Could Affect Gas Prices,” Boston.com, March 20, 2015, retrived on May 3, 2015, http://www.boston.com/cars/news-and-reviews/2015/03/20/how-nuclear-deal-with-iran-could-affect-gas-prices/zNPJW06GP9cKajAciotM1K/story.html ↩
