Will McCants's guest appearances

Will McCants

War on the Rocks

The Lawfare Podcast

Sources and Methods

JihadPod

Louie Palu

Gabriel Wyner

Jessica Lewis

Chris Lee

Jonathan Brown

J.M. Berger

Jeremy Howard

Ben Anderson

Lynne Kelly

Anders Ericsson

Ned Stark

Max Brooks

Charlie Hebdo

Elliot Ackerman

Ash Carter

OwlTail

Will McCants comes on the show to talk about jihadi governance. The conversation is based on a chapter in his new book The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. Aaron and Will discussed numerous cases of jihadi groups attempts to govern, including the Islamic State of Iraq, al-Shabab, AQAP, AQIM, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Islamic State. This episode also features a Primary Sources segment covering releases from August 14-September 19 and a #SocialMedia segment on postings from October 7-13. Links:   The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State: William McCants William McCants | Brookings Institution Will McCants (@will_mccants) | Twitter  Thanks to Raihan Kadir and Kaspars Gasuns for supporting the podcast. If you’d like to support the show check out our Patreon page! You can help the podcast and get rewards like access to bonus content, being thanked in the show notes, and more. The podcast is produced by Karl Morand. If you have feedback you can email podcast@jihadology.net, or find us on Twitter: @JihadPod.

Will McCants comes on the show to talk about jihadi governance. The conversation is based on a chapter in his new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1250080908/ref=rdr_ext_tmb?tag=mideaswee-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State</a>. Aaron and Will discussed numerous cases of jihadi groups attempts to govern, including the Islamic State of Iraq, al-Shabab, AQAP, AQIM, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Islamic State. This episode also features a Primary Sources segment covering releases from August 14-September 19 and a #SocialMedia segment on postings from October 7-13. Links: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1250080908/ref=rdr_ext_tmb?tag=mideaswee-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State: William McCants</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/experts/mccantsw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William McCants | Brookings Institution</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/will_mccants" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Will McCants (@will_mccants) | Twitter</a></li> </ul> Thanks to Raihan Kadir and Kaspars Gasuns for supporting the podcast. If you’d like to support the show <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jihadology" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">check out our Patreon page</a>! You can help the podcast and get rewards like access to bonus content, being thanked in the show notes, and more. The podcast is produced by <a href="https://twitter.com/karlmorand" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karl Morand</a>. If you have feedback you can email podcast@jihadology.net, or find us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jihadpod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@JihadPod</a>.

XVIII. Jihadi Governance 101 with Will McCants

Our guest this week is Will McCants, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has served in government and think tank positions related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, including as State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. He is the author of "Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam" and the forthcoming "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State".Show notes are available at sourcesandmethods.com. We also wish to thank Tinderbox (eastgate.com/tinderbox) for sponsoring this week's episode.

Our guest this week is Will McCants, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and has served in government and think tank positions related to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism, including as State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. He is the author of "Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam" and the forthcoming "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State".Show notes are available at <a href="http://sourcesandmethods.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sourcesandmethods.com</a>. We also wish to thank Tinderbox (<a href="http://eastgate.com/tinderbox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">eastgate.com/tinderbox</a>) for sponsoring this week's episode.

18: Will McCants

Bill Rosenau

Afshon Ostovar

The other day, I sat down with War on the Rocks contributors Bill Rosenau, Will McCants, and Afshon Ostovar - all of the Strategic Studies Center at the Center for Naval Analyses - for a conversation that ranged widely from Syria to Snowden to the think tank industry. We were hosted by the Jefferson Hotel in Washington, DC. Listen here:

First WOTR Podcast: Bill Rosenau, Will McCants, and Afshon Ostovar