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Interviews
Four terror attacks on Friday that left scores dead across four countries on three different continents raised speculation that Islamic State had launched a concerted offensive from its Syrian and Iraqi stronghold to mark the first anniversary of its Caliphate. However, an expert on jihadist movements, Wassim Nasr, dismisses the idea that the outrages in France, Tunisia, Kuwait and Somalia were part of a coordinated campaign, and says the West still does not understand Islamic State&#;s real strategy. In a wide-ranging interview with Mediapart, the specialist contends that Western states, including France, have themselves created the breeding ground for jihadist groups by backing dictatorships over democratically-elected popular movements. Pierre Puchot reports.
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Wassim Nasr is a French journalist who has been monitoring jihadi groups for more than a decade for the French news outlet France24 in French, English, and Arabic. He has conducted multiple investigations and interviews in this regard. He is the author of État islamique, le fait accompli (). He has also been a contributor to CTC Sentinel. Twitter: @SimNasr
Editor’s Note: Between April 29 and May 2, , Wassim Nasr traveled to the Idlib Province of Syria on a reporting assignment for French public broadcaster France During his time there, he spoke to senior figures within Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), including the group’s leader Abu Muhammad al-Julani and senior ideologue Abu Mariya al-Qahtani. His reporting from Idlib was broadcast and published by France24 on May 1
CTC: How did this trip come together?
Nasr: I started working on this [visit] in And it could have happened then, but there was the murder of a French teacher who was beheaded in October , Samuel Paty. Hi
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Rethinking U.S. Africa Policy mitt i Changing Geopolitical Realities
1 Haleigh Bartos and John Chin, “Biden’s Africa Policy Trilemma,” The Duck of Minerva (blog), October 12, ,
2 Michelle Nichols, “‘An Epidemic’ of Coups, U.N. Chief Laments, Urging säkerhet Council to Act,” Reuters, October 26, ,
3 See the discourse following Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” The National Interest 16 (Summer ).
4 During the Cold War, Africa vied with the Middle East as the least democratic region in the world, according to the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) electoral democracy index. The mean electoral democracy score in Africa doubled from .2 in to over bygd (on a 0–1 scale). For more on global democracy trends using V-Dem data, see Carl Henrik Knutsen and Svend-Erik Skaaning, “The Ups and Downs of Democracy, –,” in Why Democracies Develop and Decline, ed. Michael Coppedge et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ), 29– Most African states became “electoral autocracies” initia