Rohan Gunaratna

Professor Rohan Gunaratna is head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore, author of Inside Al-Qaeda (Columbia University, New York, 2002) and lead author of Pakistan: Ground Zero Terrorism (Reaktion, London, 2011).


Commentary

Society

Instability Threatens the Sahel

| 04.26.12

Weapons and unrest are spreading from Libya and inflaming long-dormant tensions throughout the region.

Security

Al-Qaeda Grows in Africa

| 03.23.12

The notorious terrorist group has joined forces with Somali Islamists to wreak havoc on another continent.

Security

The AfPak Terror Time Bomb

| 02.21.12

How the West's ignorance of regional geopolitics doomed its campaign in Afghanistan and invited the resurgence of terrorism.

Security

New Terror Threats in 2012

| 01.20.12

Recent victories against al-Qaeda, while notable, are insufficient. The threat of terror looms large in the new year.

Security

Al-Qaeda after Awlaki

| 10.18.11

Awlaki may be dead, but his legacy survives—and thrives—in every would-be jihadist with an Internet connection.

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