The Lawfare Podcast: Will McCants on "A Caliphate Without a Caliphate"
Will McCants, a Senior Fellow at Brookings and the Director of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World, comes on the podcast to discuss ISIS’s involvement in the recent spate of terrorist attacks across the globe. To what extent has ISIS really been involved in these attacks? How does its involvement reflect a change in strategy or a response to recent territorial losses? And how does a group that presents itself as a caliphate continue to exist when it loses control of its land?
Will McCants, a Senior Fellow at Brookings and the Director of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World, comes on the podcast to discuss ISIS’s involvement in the recent spate of terrorist attacks across the globe. To what extent has ISIS really been involved in these attacks? How does its involvement reflect a change in strategy or a response to recent territorial losses? And how does a group that presents itself as a caliphate continue to exist when it loses control of its land?
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