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Barak Mendelsohn
Barak Mendelsohn is a professor of political science at Haverford College. He is the author of "The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences" and "Jihadism Constrained: The Limit of Transnational Jihadism and What It Means for Counterterrorism."