How has domestic extremism changed two years after Jan. 6?
ABC News interviewed CTEC Research Fellow Amy Cooter on the second anniversary of the Capitol riots. Cooter embedded with a militia group during her graduate research work.
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Speaker Series to Explore New Global Realities
| by Jason Warburg
Five Middlebury Institute faculty experts will examine nationalism, terrorism and cybercrime, and language and identity as part of this spring’s WorldViews Speaker Series.
CTEC Director Jason Blazakis publishes article with The Hill titled "Leaving Syria shrinks US influence in the Levant"
CTEC Director Jason Blazakis discusses the United State’s recent plan for withdrawal out of Syria leaves the fight against ISIS discombobulated. Additionally, he underscores why the U.S. military, the global coalition, and every effort to cripple ISIS’s finances must be taken to ensure that ISIL does not return.
CTEC Director Jason Blazakis featured on KCBS Radio
CTEC Director Jason Blazakis discusses President Trump’s recent visit to Iraq.
Associate Professor Philipp C. Bleek quoted in Boston Herald story on Trump claiming victory over ISIS
Associate Professor Philipp C. Bleek comments upon “trying to nudge toward the least evil necessary evil” in having Bashar Assad’s regime takeover Syria even though he is no friend of the United States.
Associate Professor Philipp C. Bleek presents at a workshop hosted by the Pacific Forum and the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
| by Mitchell Leong MANPTS '19
Associate Professor Philipp C. Bleek was in Jakarta, Indonesia for a workshop on “Strengthening National Capacity on Nonproliferation, Disarmament and Implementation of Peaceful Uses.”
Faculty Student Collaboration Results in Special Operations Research Database
Middlebury Institute student Chuck Woodson and Professor Orion Lewis of Middlebury College have created a Special Operations Research Database as a resource for analysis and lessons for future counterterrorism policy.
Associate Professor Philipp C. Bleek and MA NPTS student Cyrus Jabbari featured in talk at the Center for Study of WMD
| by Mitchell Leong MANPTS '19
Associate Professor Philipp C. Bleek, MA NPTS student Cyrus Jabbari, and National Defense University’s Dr. Gerald Epstein was featured in a talk at the Center for the Study of WMD’s November Spotlight Seminar.