Contents
Disunity in Global Jihad: A Preface
The Mole and the Mallet: Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the ‘Thirty Years' War’ in the Middle East
Heirs of Abu Bakr: On the Ideology and Conception of History in al-Qaeda and Islamic State
Islamic State Enters Al-Qaeda’s Old Hotbed: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Islamic State in Yemen – A Rival to al-Qaeda?
Islamic State’s Incursion into North Africa and Sahel: A Threat to al-Qaeda?
Islamic State and al-Qaeda’s Foreign Fighters
Migrants, Housewives, Warriors or Sex Slaves: AQ’s and the Islamic State’s Perspectives on Women
COVID-19 caught most international security academics by surprise. Initial articles featured the role of China and Russia in the pandemic. As of April 2020, Marshall Center faculty members and befriended academics of the Partnership for Peace Consortium started to write how Beijing and Moscow were trolling Europe's public with disinformation, propagandistic aid campaigns, and winkingly promoting authoritarian ways as superior to western models in handling a crisis. However, they also added papers on the virus's impact on specific regions, i.e., the European Union, the Balkans, or Central Asia. Some writers discussed the legitimate use of tools to control the pandemic in the national domain; other works revisited pre-coronavirus topics such as terrorism.
This special edition of Connections illustrates what ten acknowledged experts considered important and worth of observation regarding the impact of the virus on international relations.
Previous Issue
The Fall 2016 issue of Connections is dedicated to the NATO Summit that took place in Warsaw, Poland in July 2016. During the Summit, heads of state and government of allied and partner countries discussed key security challenges. This journal issue takes a deep look into two key themes - assuring the security of the Alliance in view of the hybrid ...
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