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About Beth Windisch
NBN Episodes hosted by Beth:
August 13, 2024
The Brink
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 (Simon & Schuster, 2018), by Marc Ambinder, is a history of US-Soviet Relations under Ro…
July 21, 2024
American Zealots
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori…
October 19, 2023
Burn-in
In P. W. Singer and August Cole's groundbreaking book, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), an FBI agent…
June 6, 2023
The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure
Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warn…
August 27, 2021
Your Sons Are at Your Service
Tunisia became one of the largest sources of foreign fighters for the Islamic State—even though the country stands out as a democratic bright spot of …
July 26, 2021
Pastels and Pedophiles
Two experts of extremist radicalization take us down the QAnon rabbit hole, exposing how the conspiracy theory ensnared countless Americans, and show …
May 6, 2021
The Frontlines of Peace
The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-…
April 2, 2021
Avoiding the Terrorist Trap
Faced with a major terrorist threat, states seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbati…
December 2, 2020
Hate in the Homeland
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and c…
September 23, 2020
Muslims in a Post-9/11 America
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 real…
September 9, 2020
America’s Other Muslims
America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Musli…
September 1, 2020
Breaking Protocol
"It used to be," soon-to-be secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright said in 1996, "that the only way a woman could truly make her foreign policy view…
August 25, 2020
Incitement
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 dro…
August 12, 2020
Disordered Violence
In Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Caron Gentry looks at how gende…
August 5, 2020
Black Wave
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 …
July 7, 2020
Becoming Bulletproof
Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games, Evy Poumpouras, shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and ski…
July 6, 2020
Radicalization to Terrorism
Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George…
June 9, 2020
Weaponized Words
Kurt Braddock's new book Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization (Cambridge University…
May 27, 2020
Widen the Window
Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in wh…
April 1, 2020
The First Political Order
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relatio…
March 24, 2020
A Woman's Place
The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the US approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, pol…
March 2, 2020
Full Spectrum Dominance
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 …
January 17, 2020
The New Battle for the Atlantic
In The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North (Naval Institute Press, 2019), Magnus Nordenman explores t…
January 10, 2020
Building a Resilient Tomorrow
Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world c…