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Westminster Institute talks — 194 episodes · page 2 of 2
Saeed Ghasseminejad: The Effects of U.S. Sanctions on Iran's Economy
Chen Guangcheng: Civil Rights in China
Sebastian Gorka: America and Irregular Warfare
Joseph Humire: Iranian Strategic Influence in the Hemisphere: Threats to the Homeland
Shmuel Bar: The Demise of the Arab State, Re-Tribalization, and the Emergence of “Jihadistans” in the Next Five Years
Kenneth Pollack: Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
Mary Habeck: How to Identify Jihadi-Salafists Through Their Ideology, Practices, and Methodology
Samuel Tadros: The Sorrows of Egypt, Revisited
Sean McFate: The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
Robert R. Reilly: Not What Went Wrong, but Why it Went Wrong
Tawfik Hamid: The Making (and Unmaking) of the Jihadist Mind
James Clad: The Islamic State Attacks Indonesia – And its ‘Middle Way’
Harun Maruf: Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally
Aykan Erdemir: How Erdoğan Consolidates Power: the Weaponization of Turkish Media and the Scapegoating of Minorities
Dr. Jeff Moore: Evolution in Islamic insurgency in Asia
Robert Spencer: The History of Jihad
Daniel Brubaker: How Some Muslim Activists Use Speech Codes to Subjugate the West and How to Respond
Mansour Al-Hadj: What are the Prospects for Real Reform in Saudi Arabia?
Alberto Fernandez: Reinventing an American International Broadcasting Network to the Arab World
Wael Farouq: Arab Identities and Tribal Culture
Dr. László Szabó: Immigration and the Preservation of European Culture
Ahmet S. Yayla: How Turkey Sees Its Role in the World and What it Means for the U.S.
Daniel Green: In the Warlords’ Shadow: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban
Dr. John Dziak: Old Lesson for New Wars: Counterintelligence at the Roots of Provocation and Terror
Patrick Clawson: Will the Islamic Republic Last Long Enough to Get a Nuclear Bomb?
Joseph Braude: Broadcasting Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism
Lieutenant General Agus Widjojo: How to Support Democracy: The Case of Indonesia
Christopher C. Harmon: The Terrorist Argument: Modern Advocacy and Propaganda
Hassan Abbas: The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Afghan-Pakistan Frontier
Ibn Warraq: The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology
Michael Pregent: After ISIS, The Future of Iraq in the Hands of Iran
David Goldman: Will China overtake the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower?
Faith McDonnell: Underestimating Sudan and What That Means to the Region, the U.S., and the World
Joshua Muravchik: Israel: How Was David Made into Goliath? How the World Turned Against Israel
Wibawanto Nugroho: Understanding Islamist Radical Terrorism
Major General Abbas Ibrahim: The Security Challenges for Lebanon and the Surrounding Area
Sarwah Abdulwahed Qadir: The Future of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdish Independence Referendum, Women’s Rights, and What Happened under ISIS in Iraq
Fmr. Congressman Frank Wolf and David Eubank: End of Christianity in the Cradle of Christendom?: A Report from Northern Iraq after ISIS
David Des Roches: Push and Pull of Religious Extremism: Who Are the Terrorists, How Are they Recruited, What Can We Do?
Ilan Berman: The Drivers of Russian Strategy in the Middle East
Mark Helprin: Unorthodox Thoughts In Regard to the Middle East Military Dimension
Clifford May: Islamism and Jihadism: The Challenge and the Threat for Trump
Bill Gertz: iWar: War And Peace In The Information Age
Mehdi Khalaji: How the Iranian Revolution Changed the Role of the Shia Clergy
Ali Jalali: Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror
Walid Phares: US Strategy in the Middle East till 2020: Will it Work?
James Carafano: Next Steps in Immigration and National Security: The Global Response
Dr. Sebastian Gorka: The Future of Jihadist Terrorism
Robert McFarlane: The Sunni Response to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – Toward MAD or Stability?
Michael Eisenstadt: Winning Battles, Losing Wars: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in the Middle East
Yigal Carmon: How the Internet Developed the Global Jihadi Movement
Michael Doran: Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
Robert R. Reilly: Diplomacy in the Modern Era
Prof. John Moore: Lessons from the Cold War
Dr. S. Frederick Starr: What Was Islamic Culture and What Happened to It?
Sister Diana Momeka: Restoring Hope in Iraq for Persecuted Christians and Other Religious Minorities
Celina Realuyo: Defunding ISIS and Other Terrorists
John Lenczowski: Political-Ideological Warfare in Integrated Strategy, and its Basis in an Assessment of Soviet Reality
Stephen Ulph: Islamism and Totalitarianism
Samuel Tadros: The Future of Islamism in Egypt
Robert R. Reilly: The Closing of the Muslim Mind
Thomas Joscelyn: Al Qaeda After the Death of Bin Laden – The Future of Jihadist Terrorism
Ahmet S. Yayla: Turkey, the Coup, and ISIS
Gamal Arabi: Terrorism: a political, military danger or a cultural, ideological challenge?
Suzanne Scholte: The Battle for Human Rights in North Korea: Is There Any Hope?
Congressman Frank Wolf: Nigeria & International Religious Freedom
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser: Fighting for Victory Against Islamism: A Muslim Blueprint for the West
Michael Ledeen: The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
Jack Rusenko: How to Define ISIS and How Morocco is Fighting It
Nibras Kazimi: How Jihadists Weaponize Islamic History and How to De-Weaponize It
Andrew C. McCarthy: Defenseless in the Face of our Enemies: What Keeps America from Protecting Itself from Radical Islam
Richard Miniter: Obama’s Leading From Behind: The National Security Consequences
Clare Lopez: Gülen & the Gülen Movement
Andrew Doran: Christian Genocide: Evidence for Its Designation and Saving Christianity in Iraq
Kanan Makiya: What Went Wrong in 2003: An Iraqi Story for the Future
Michael Pregent: How Iran Fuels ISIS
Ilan Berman: Iran's Global Ambitions
Robert R. Reilly: Deciphering the Middle East: Why the U.S. Usually Gets it Wrong
Tawfik Hamid: Inside Jihad: How Radical Islam Works and How to Defeat It
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Dealing with Iran in a Post-Deal World
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey: When Iran Goes Nuclear: Technology and Ideology
Dr. John M. Poindexter: National Security and the Islamic State
Westminster Institute’s Delegation to Egypt
Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo: The Role of Religion in the Battle Space since 9/11
Dr. Tawfik Hamid: The Psychology and Ideology of Islamic Extremism
Dr. J. Michael Waller: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Mobilizational Power of Ideology
Stephen Ulph: The Importance of Muslim Reformers
Robert R. Reilly: Information Operations: Successes and Failures
Dr. Walid Phares: A New Approach to Upheaval in the Middle East
Diana West: Countering Subversion - Lessons from History
Katharine C. Gorka: The OIC's Political Campaign
Sebastian Gorka: A New American Strategy
Diana West: American Betrayal the Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character
Deborah Weiss: Combating Free Speech Infringement