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TNT Roundtable: "What ISIS Really Wants"

A Discussion with Graeme Wood
Friday, March 6, 2015 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Center for Strategic and International StudiesNinth Floor Board Room 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20036

The Islamic State has been viewed, variously, as a collection of nihilistic psychopaths and as a direct descendant of Al Qaeda that shares the parent organization's strategy and goals. Scrutiny of the group's statements, as well as conversations with its overseas supporters, suggest both impressions are dangerously misleading. The group's ideology suggests avenues for defeat, and cautious optimism for a strategy of containment. In his current Atlantic essay “What ISIS Really Wants,” Graeme Wood explores these facets of ISIS, the forces arrayed against it, and offers insights into today’s foremost security challenge for the Middle East and the United States. Please join author Graeme Wood and CSIS’ Tom Sanderson for an eye-opening TNT Terrorism Roundtable.

Featuring:
Graeme Wood
Contributing Editor
The Atlantic

Moderated by:
Tom Sanderson
Co-director and Senior Fellow
Transnational Threats Project, CSIS

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Thomas M. Sanderson
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