The Power of an Idea
William McCants,
Director, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, The Brookings Institution
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Terrorism: Behind the Headlines
ISIS, Al Qaeda and other splinter groups have increasing access to both weaponry and channels of communication, creating a global threat that is omnipresent, urgent—and often unknown. Experts and journalists provide an on-the-ground look at the groups behind extremist acts and the threats currently facing our nation before addressing the questions most on everyone’s minds in an audience Q&A.
What to expect: CNN’s Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr on America’s counterterrorism efforts; Scott Shane on national security; Farah Pandith on how she approached her job as the first-ever U.S. Special Representative to Muslim Communities; William McCants on ISIS’s doomsday vision
