The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ International Center for Terrorism Studies presents 10 independent perspectives on chemical and biological terrorism. The scope of the report ranges from the United States to Iran, Syria, and Russia, among other locations, and includes perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including academia, government, and public policy. Read the report […]
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Trump Announces Refugee Vetting Enhancements as Travel Ban Ends
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that established new vetting enhancements for refugee admissions. The 120-day refugee travel ban upheld by the Supreme Court came to an end the same day. According to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement, the enhancements include “increased data collection to more thoroughly investigate applicants, better information […]
Thieves Assault Western Value System
In his report How Non-State Actors Export Kleptocratic Norms to the West, Ilia Zaslavskiy of Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative explores how the democratic picture envisioned at the fall of the Iron Curtain hasn’t turned out as many expected. “When the floodgates opened after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the post-Soviet swamp was not swept […]
Perspective: Taliban Prisoner Release Reveals Unholy Alliance
At long last some good news emerged from Afghanistan on Oct. 12. A family kidnapped in 2012 by the Taliban was rescued and reunited with their loved ones. Caitlan Coleman and her husband Joshua Boyle, having ventured into Afghanistan on an ill-advised hiking vacation in 2012 were kidnapped by some segment of Taliban forces and […]