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14 Oct 2017, 10:30 am by Vanessa Sauter
To evaluate the evolution of mainstream Islamist groups and the obstacles they face in governance, Brookings Senior Fellows Shadi Hamid and Will McCants led an initiative to assess these movements across 12 countries, compiling field research from a group of leading specialists in their recently released book Rethinking Political Islam. [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 1:06 pm by Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes
Our first guests, on October 21, will be the authors of two important new books on the Islamic State: Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick and Brookings Institution scholar William McCants. [read post]
24 Oct 2015, 11:12 am by Benjamin Wittes
  The first event, which took place Wednesday, featured my Brookings colleague Will McCants and Joby Warrick of the Washington Post, discussing their important new books on ISIS. [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 4:07 am by Benjamin Wittes
  My Brookings colleague William McCants has written a lengthy profile of the Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, published by the Brookings Essay. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 2:07 pm by Aaron Y. Zelin
Links: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State: William McCants William McCants | Brookings Institution Will McCants (@will_mccants) | Twitter Thanks to Raihan Kadir and Kaspars Gasuns for supporting the podcast. [read post]
19 Nov 2016, 9:32 am by Tom Smith
William McCants, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of “The ISIS Apocalypse,” said Mr. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 9:18 am by Benjamin Wittes
Tamara talks about a new article by William McCants that takes us deep inside the mind and menace of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared “caliph” of the Islamic State. [read post]
28 Mar 2015, 10:50 am by Cody Poplin
The panel, which also featured Brookings Fellow William McCants, details ISIS’s uniquely disturbing strategies and techniques—its unprecedented mix of brutality, media savvy, territorial gain, and recruitment. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
It finds that their understanding was strikingly more expansive than the narrow definition of Sir William Blackstone, which is usually assumed to have dominated the period. [read post]
5 Sep 2015, 7:21 am by Cody M. Poplin
Ben linked to Brookings senior fellow William McCants’s excellent profile of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, who McCants describes as a “true believer. [read post]
8 Mar 2015, 9:00 pm by Cody Poplin
The panel will also include Anastasia Norton and William McCants. [read post]
23 Jul 2016, 7:09 am by Rishabh Bhandari
Kevin Cieply reviewed a book by William C. [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 6:04 am by Zachary Burdette
Robert Williams added his own perspective on the FONOP. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 6:18 am by Jordan Brunner
Ben and William McCants examined the legality of the Trump administration designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. [read post]
1 Feb 2015, 9:00 pm by Cody Poplin
Wednesday, February 4th at 2 pm: Also at the Brookings Institution, William McCants, Anastasia Norton, Bruce Riedel, and Daniel Byman will address the state of US efforts at Countering Violent Extremism and outline possible counterterrorism strategies for the future. [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 7:00 am by Jennifer Williams
William McCants, my colleague at Brookings and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. [read post]
25 Sep 2017, 11:20 am by Garrett Hinck
The Brookings Institution will host a panel discussion on Rethinking Political Islam, a new book by Shadi Hamid and William McCants. [read post]
12 Sep 2015, 6:35 am by Elina Saxena
Ben wrote about William McCant’s analysis of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. [read post]
29 Sep 2015, 1:37 pm by Elina Saxena
William McCants comments that while “reaching out to Hollywood makes sense in principle...this sort of thing usually ends up with executives from DC and Hollywood high-fiving each other and throwing around some cringeworthy ideas. [read post]