613: Graeme Wood | Understanding ISIS

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Graeme Wood (@gcaw) is a political science lecturer at Yale University, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.

The Cheat Sheet for Understanding ISIS:
  • How does ISIS view itself in the context of the modern world?
  • What is the allure of ISIS to educated, professional, and otherwise "normal" members of society?
  • How does ISIS vet potential candidates, and in what ways has recruitment changed over the past few years?
  • What has ISIS learned from Al-Qaeda's failures?
  • How does a western reporter like Graeme Wood persuade terrorists and terrorist sympathizers to talk to him?
  • And so much more...

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