One hundred years ago, in late October 1922, Italian Fascists under the leadership of Benito Mussolini, a former socialist newspaper editor and politician, marched on Rome and onto the world stage. The goal was to make Italy and its capital great again, as under the Caesars. When the fascist supporters and Blackshirt militia entered the…
CRIC is exceptionally proud to announce that our Foundation Fellow, Professor Scott Atran, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of “…distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. Professor Atran now stands among 2,512 active NAS members as part of one of the most distinguished and respected scientific…
Before Congress, Gen. Scott Berrier, the US Defense Intelligence Agency director, acknowledged misjudging Ukraine’s ability to resist Russia: “I questioned their will to fight. That was a bad assessment.” Russia’s appraisal of Ukraine’s will to fight evidently fared no better. Lamentably, misjudging both allies’ and adversaries’ will to fight has become routine among our military and political…
“We spent over a trillion dollars. We trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong — incredibly well equipped — a force larger in size than the militaries of many of our NATO allies. We gave them every tool they could need. We paid their salaries, provided for the maintenance of their air force…
Review of Peter Gill, Today We Drop Bombs: Tomorrow We Build Bridges. Times Literary Suppliment, September 21st 2016.
Review of Peter Gill, Today We Drop Bombs: Tomorrow We Build Bridges. Times Literary Suppliment, September 21st 2016.
Review of Peter Gill, Today We Drop Bombs: Tomorrow We Build Bridges. Times Literary Suppliment, September 21st 2016.
Scott Atran : Giving back vitality in our values to open our societies
What drives people to take up arms for groups such as ISIS? Video by Harvey Whitehouse, Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Transcript of an interview with Scott Atran for In Theory, www.washingtonpost.com