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EPISODE · Sep 8, 2015 · 59 MIN

18: Will McCants

from Sources and Methods · host Alex Strick van Linschoten and Matt Trevithick

Our guest this week is Will McCants, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has served in government and think tank positions related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, including as State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. He is the author of "Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam" and the forthcoming "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State".Show notes are available at sourcesandmethods.com. We also wish to thank Tinderbox (eastgate.com/tinderbox) for sponsoring this week's episode.

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Our guest this week is Will McCants, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has served in government and think tank positions related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, including as State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. He is the author of "Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and ...

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