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The battle for digital supremacy

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Book author: David Patrikarakos Published by: Basic Books Reviewer: per Concordiam Staff Social media has made a mockery of the old saw that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Today,…

Islam’s Revival in Central Asia

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Book author, editor: Pauline Jones Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017 Reviewer: Diana Clark Gill Civil violence is worrisome no matter where it originates or where its proponents strike. But in the case of Central…

Countering extremism at the national level

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Book author: Hamed El-Said Published by Palmgrave Macmillan, 2015 Reviewer: Clare Calvert As the number of countries dealing with the threat of foreign terrorist fighters increases, the book New Approaches to Countering Violent…

A History of Cyberspace

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Book editor: Eneken Tikk-Ringas; published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London; December 2015. Reviewed by: Joseph W. Vann, Marshall Center Evolution of the Cyber Domain: The Implications for National and…

The HUMAN Face of Migration

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Report author: Judith Sunderland, Human Rights Watch, June 2015 Reviewed by: Thomas Otto, former intern at the Marshall Center Since the numbers of immigrants and asylum seekers are now counted in the millions, the refugee…

Using Communities to Counter Terrorism

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Book Editors: Rohan Gunaratna, Jolene Jerard and Salim Mohamed Nasir Imperial College Press, 2013 Reviewed by: Melanie Schweiger, Marshall Center Countering Extremism: Building Social Resilience through Community Engagement…

The EU’s Role in the World

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Book Editors: Sven Bernhard Gareis, Gunther Hauser and Franz Kernic Barbara Budrich Publishers, January 2013 Reviewed by: Alessandro Scheffler Corvaja Good handbooks on the European Union’s foreign policy are hard to come by. Many…

Building a Global Energy Consensus

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Book authors: Bruce Jones and David Steven, Brookings Institution Press, November 2014 Reviewed by: per Concordiam Staff In February 1945, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt met King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard a U.S. warship…

The Role of Modern Militaries

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Author: Dr. John L. Clarke, Ashgate Publishing, October 2014 Reviewer: Col. (Ret.) Heinz-Joachim Henseler The main roles and missions of military forces in today’s Western democracies are defined by politicians and include national…