To Drone, Or Not To Drone—That Is The Question
July 15, 2016 11 min. read

Over the last 15 years, the fervent embrace of drone strikes have helped the U.S. create the most far-reaching counterterrorism apparatus in history.

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Whose Foot Will Drop in Oman?
June 27, 2016 5 min. read

From an impoverished land into a prosperous nation with military agreements with the U.S. and the UK, Oman’s progress may come crashing to a halt.

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Amid Setbacks, ISIS Embraces Traditional Terrorism Paradigm
May 27, 2016 7 min. read

ISIS has abandoned its blitzkrieg-style land grab. Improvised explosive devices, suicide vests, and car bombs have once again become the order of the day.

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The Implications of the Houthi Coup d’état in Yemen
January 30, 2015 12 min. read

The Houthi, who prefer to call themselves Ansar Allah, or Partisans of God, hail from the Zaydi branch of Shia Islam, a sect that exists almost entirely in Yemen and make up about 35 percent of its population.

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FPA’s Must Reads: April 19-26
April 26, 2013 3 min. read

The Rise of Big Data By Kenneth Neil Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger Foreign Affairs The Internet may have transformed the way we do business, live and govern, but a lesser-known technological trend, “big data,” has also been making waves. The premise — that we can learn more from a large body of information things than […]

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