Cooperation, Competition, & Fissures

Terrorist organizations cooperate and compete in a variety of ways. Review our research on the topic to learn more about how, why, and where that takes place.

September 7, 2016

A Predictable Failure: The Political Economy of the Decline of the Islamic State

Jacob Shapiro

August 22, 2016

Al-Qa`ida Uncoupling: Jabhat al-Nusra’s Rebranding as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham

Aymenn Al-Tamimi

Hezbollah’s Pivot Toward the Gulf

Matthew Levitt

Destroying the Islamic State Hydra: Lessons Learned from the Fall of its Predecessor

Truls Tonnessen

July 27, 2016

The Polarizing Effect of Islamic State Aggression on the Global Jihadist Movement

William McCants

The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons: A Profile of the Arm’s-Length Proxy of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party

Metin Gurcan

Deciphering Competition Between al-Qa`ida and the Islamic State

Clint Watts

June 16, 2016

A View from the CT Foxhole: Vassilios Kikilias, Greece’s Former Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection

Charles Kim, Paul Cruickshank

May 25, 2016

Al-Zawahiri’s Bay`a to Mullah Mansoor: A Bitter Pill but a Bountiful Harvest

Olivier Roy, Tore Hamming

A View from the CT Foxhole: Brigadier General Donald C. Bolduc, Commander, Special Operations Command Africa

Brian Dodwell