SFS Faculty and Alumni discuss the recent terrorist attacks by ISIS in Paris. This is a collection of those stories, which will continue to be updated as the situation evolves.
- ISIS, ISIL and Daesh: What’s the difference and why it matters
Jonathan Brown and Rochelle Davis on WKRG News5, November 21, 2015 - Islamic State Tactics Shift, Borrowing from al Qaeda
Bruce Hoffman quoted in The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2015 - For the Islamic State, paroxysms of violence portends apocalypse
Daniel Byman quoted in The Washington Post, November 16, 2015 - Paris Attacks Spark Calls for Heightened War on ISIS, but Defeating Islamic State Won’t Be So Simple
Daniel Byman quoted in International Business Times, November 16, 2015 - The Attacks in Paris and Options to Combat Terrorism
Bruce Hoffman on The Diane Rehm Show, November 16, 2015 - Experts: Too much focus on ISIS in Syrian Conflict
Daniel Byman and Kenneth Pollack quoted in Military Times, November 16, 2015 - What do the Paris Attacks tell us about foreign fighters?
Daniel Byman for The Washington Post, November 16, 2015 - Obama ponders his options against ISIL
Kenneth Pollack quoted in Politico, November 16, 2015 - Daniel Byman on The Takeaway with John Hockenberry radio show, November 16, 2015
- After Paris, a Grim New Reality in the Terror War
Bruce Hoffman quote for Foreign Policy, November 15, 2015 - ISIS’ Big Mistake: Why Going Global Might End Badly
Daniel Byman for Foreign Affairs, November 15, 2015 - Paris Terror Attacks May Prompt More Aggressive U.S. Strategy on ISIS
Bruce Hoffman quoted in The New York Times, November 14, 2015 - Five Things to Know about the Paris Attack
Daniel Byman for Slate, November 14, 2015 - How the Paris attacks combined more than a decade of terrorist attacks in one night
Bruce Hoffman quoted in The Washington Post, November 14, 2015 - Bruce Hoffman on NPR, November 13, 2015
Political Response to Paris Attacks
- Meet the refugees that Alabama would turn away
Ava Leone, MAAS’11, for The Huntsville Times, November 19, 2015 - U.S. Politicians’ Fears Are a Terrible Reason to Refuse Refugees
Susan Martin for Fortune, November 19, 2015 - Syrians in America: How Safe is the U.S. Refugee Program?
Rochelle Davis quoted for NBCNews, November 19, 2015 - Posing as refugees not easiest path to U.S for Islamic State operatives
Rochelle Davis quoted in McClatchyDC, November 19, 2015 - Turning Away Refugees Won’t Fight Terrorism. It Might Make it Worse
Rochelle Davis quoted in Wired Magazine, November 17, 2015 - Republicans Hope Blame for Paris Attacks Sticks to Clinton
Robert Lieber quoted in Roll Call, November 17, 2015 - Paris Attacks Complicate Hillary Clinton’s Alignment with Obama
Dennis Ross and Paul Pillar quoted in The New York Times, November 17, 2015 - The Real Extremist: Alabama Poses a Greater Threat to Syrian Refugees Than Those Refugees Pose to Alabama
Daniel Byman quoted in Slate, November 16, 2015 - Is ISIS an ‘existential threat’ to the United States?
Anthony Clark Arend quoted in PolitiFact, November 16, 2015 - ISIS Is Not Waging a War Against Western Civilization: A Primer for Marco Rubio
Daniel Byman quoted in The Atlantic, November 15, 2015