Tag terrorism

Energy & Environment, Regional, Security & Conflict

Water, Energy, Food, and Terrorism: Towards a Nexus Approach

Benjamin Levine
February 21, 2024

Water, energy, and food are highly interdependent resources fundamental to both the sustainment of life and the modern global economy. While our understanding of their interdependence is hardly new, it was only in 2011 that scholars, practitioners, and policymakers first…

Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East, North America, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Countering Terror in Transition: A Typology of Terrorist Organization Successors and their Vulnerabilities

Tricia L. Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm
November 15, 2022

Dr. Tricia Bacon is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University. Dr. Elizabeth Grimm is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. One of the singular challenges for a…

Africa, Regional, Security & Conflict, Uncategorized

The African Union’s Institutional Approach to Transnational Terrorism

Linda McMullen
April 6, 2020

This paper examines the African Union's (AU) institutional approach to transnational terrorism. Specifically, its approaches in combating Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Boko Haram, and al-Shabaab.

Asia Pacific, Civil Society, Governance & Law, Security & Conflict

The Evolution of FATA Land into a Hub of Terrorism

The SAIS Review
December 15, 2016

Author Ahmad Shah Katawazai discusses the development of terrorist elements in the largely ungoverned Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, describes its implications for regional and international security, and offers policy prescriptions to combat the continued growth of extremism in the FATA.

Africa, Civil Society, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Terror in the Sinai: An End to Israeli-Egyptian Peace?

The SAIS Review
April 26, 2012

Growing terrorism in the Sinai peninsula is threatening peace between Egypt and Israel, a key stabilizer in the Middle East.