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Assistant Professor Lawrence Rubin
Margaret Kosal
Jenna JordanAssistant Professor Jenna Jordan, Associate Professor Margaret Kosal, and Associate Professor Lawrence Rubin, faculty members in the Ivan Allen College Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, co-authored “How to Give Counterterrorism a Fighting Chance” for The National Interest.
Excerpt:
President-elect Trump made it clear that defeating and destroying ISIS will be one of his national security priorities. He has assembled a team of national security experts with significant leadership experience combating al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban. If the Trump administration prioritizes the defeat of ISIS and violent extremism and if it allocates finite national security resources to counterterrorism policies, it should ensure that there is a fighting chance for counterterrorism to succeed. The Trump administration should look beyond the near term and implement an approach that will have positive effects for decades to come.
For the full article, read here.
