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National Security
January 6, 2021
American Zealots
Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
Arie Perliger
Hosted by Beth Windisch
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics …
National Security
December 2, 2020
Hate in the Homeland
The New Global Far Right
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to …
American Studies
September 23, 2020
Muslims in a Post-9/11 America
A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy
Rachel M. Gillum
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Muslims in a Post-9/11 America (University of Michigan Press, 2018) examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a …
African American Studies
September 9, 2020
America’s Other Muslims
Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam
Muhammed Fraser-Rahim
Hosted by Beth Windisch
America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 25, 2020
Incitement
Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.” By the time he was killed by an American drone strike in 2011 …
Critical Theory
August 12, 2020
Disordered Violence
How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism
Caron Gentry
Hosted by Beth Windisch
In Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Caron Gentry looks at how gender, race, and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings …
East Asian Studies
August 5, 2020
Black Wave
How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters
Daniel P. Aldrich
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of …
National Security
July 7, 2020
Becoming Bulletproof
Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
Evy Poumpouras
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games, Evy Poumpouras, shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security …
National Security
July 6, 2020
Radicalization to Terrorism
What Everyone Needs to Know
Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked "Why do …
Communications
June 9, 2020
Weaponized Words
The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization
Kurt Braddock
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Kurt Braddock's new book Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization (Cambridge University Press, 2020) applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this …
National Security
May 27, 2020
Widen the Window
Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma
Elizabeth A. Stanley
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking …
Critical Theory
April 1, 2020
The First Political Order
How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order …
American Studies
March 24, 2020
A Woman's Place
US Counterterrorism Since 9/11
Joana Cook
Hosted by Beth Windisch
The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the US approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments is rich …
American Studies
March 2, 2020
Full Spectrum Dominance
Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror
Maria Ryan
Hosted by Beth Windisch
America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book demonstrates, both the international campaign and the new ways of fighting that grew …
American Studies
January 17, 2020
The New Battle for the Atlantic
Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North
Magnus Nordenman
Hosted by Beth Windisch
In The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North (Naval Institute Press, 2019), Magnus Nordenman explores the emerging competition between the United States …
Economics
January 10, 2020
Building a Resilient Tomorrow
How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
Alice C. Hill
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, further significant …
Law
January 8, 2020
Leadership Decapitation
Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations
Jenna Jordan
Hosted by Beth Windisch
One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith …
African Studies
December 31, 2019
Empire's Mobius Strip
Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
Stephanie Malia Hom
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions. Stephanie Malia Hom's new book Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis …
Middle Eastern Studies
December 13, 2019
The Media World of ISIS
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington
Hosted by Beth Windisch
From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multi-platformed campaign is so …
World Affairs
December 9, 2019
Power to the People
How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has …
American Studies
December 4, 2019
How to Think about Homeland Security
David H. McIntyre
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Today I talked to David H. McIntyre about How to Think about Homeland Security; Volume 1: The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and Public Safety and Volume 2: Risk, Threats …
Economics
October 29, 2019
The Future of Risk Management
Howard Kunreuther
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on individuals and firms, and test political …
Law
October 15, 2019
The War for Muddy Waters
Pirates, Terrorists, Traffickers, and Maritime Security
Joshua Tallis
Hosted by Beth Windisch
In his new book The War for Muddy Waters: Pirates, Terrorists, Traffickers, and Maritime Security (Naval Institute Press, 2019), Joshua Tallis uses the “broken windows” theory of policing to reexamine …
American Studies
August 21, 2019
Spying
Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11
Darren E. Tromblay
Hosted by Beth Windisch
Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose? What have been the results of the creation of …
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