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NYU's Initiative for the Study of Emerging Threats

@ISETNYU

A venture of @NYUCGA. The security challenges facing the world are increasingly complex and varied. The Center for Global Affairs helps make sense of them.

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NYU's Initiative for the Study of Emerging Threats@ISETNYUOct 12
🥂🌎️ Wonderful celebration of Vera Jelinek, the founder and divisional dean of our @nyucga. There is no CGA without Vera and her contributions to our Center and society over the past decades have been admirable. Incredibly grateful for all that you have given CGA. 🙏💫
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🥂🌎️ Wonderful celebration of Vera Jelinek, the founder and divisional dean of our @nyucga. There is no CGA without Vera and her contributions to our Center and society over the past decades have been admirable. Incredibly grateful for all that you have given CGA. 🙏💫
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The Soufan Center@TheSoufanCenterSep 10
One final panel to close out #GSTPV2026. @Jacob_A_Ware, @Jumo_Ayandele, Yannick Veilleux-Lepage & TSC’s @ClaraBroekaert joined @propublica's @HannahAllam to explore how digital spaces and emerging #technologies are reshaping violent extremism. And that’s a wrap! 🎉
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🕵️‍♀️ On Monday @nyucga Master's students kicked off our 6th project w/the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. This year will focus on how violent extremists a conceive of and may target critical infrastructure. 🏥 🏦 🔌🚰 💡 Can't wait to see what they come up with! #NYUISET
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🔙⭐️ 1st collaboration w/the US State Department in 2019! This group created infographics on how strategic communications could address radicalization & recruitment into violent extremism in Nigeria & Somalia. Pioneers laying the groundwork for future @nyucga graduate students!
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☀️Our @Strong_Cities @nyucga students continued their work into summer, attending the @NYSDHSES symposium & briefing key US & global stakeholders in a webinar. Their report on cross sector collaboration in secondary violence prevention also went live: bit.ly/4y3nRlV
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John V. Kane@UptonOrwellAug 17
🤯 Wow--truly humbled by this! #1 in the category of Social Sciences Research. Many sincere thanks to all those who've purchased "Truth Addict." I am immensely grateful and sincerely hope you are finding it useful, informative, and maybe even a little bit fun🙏
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⬇️ New article out by @ISETNYU affiliate & @NYUCGA faculty @JoshuaKrasna! Congrats, Josh! 👏
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I have a chapter (Chapter 10, on Gulf States' involvement in the Eastern Mediterranean) in this new open-access book published by Springer "The Geostrategic Gulf". link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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👩‍⚖️ Excited to kick off our 5th consulting practicum project with the Manhattan DA! This year @nyucga Master's students will be investigating the links between #transnational #crime networks and #terrorism with an emphasis on activities that involve or pass through New York City.
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Mary Beth Altier@marybethaltier22 Aug 2025
🖇️My article on support for armed political parties is out now in the Journal of Global Security Studies. Very grateful to all who have supported, offered comments, and provided research assistance on this project over the years.@NYUCGA @ISETNYU @NYUSPS 🔗bit.ly/4mXZZe2
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Nigeria’s Refusal to Cave to Trump Signals a Shift in U.S.-Africa Relations - Abuja’s rejection of Washington’s third-country deportations should be a wake-up call by @NYUCGA’s @Jumo_Ayandele! foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/01…
Nigeria’s Refusal to Cave to Trump Signals a Shift in U.S.-Africa Relations

Nigeria’s Refusal to Cave to Trump Signals a Shift in U.S.-Africa Relations

Abuja’s rejection of Washington’s third-country deportations should be a wake-up call.

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✈️ Just back from 11 amazing days with NYU CGA Masters' students on a Global Field Intensive to #Ireland 🇮🇪 & the #UK🇬🇧 📝Students studied the conditions under which extremism & violence thrive in democracies & efforts to build more effective security & governance institutions.
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🤝This past weekend @nyucga @IRNYU Masters' students participated in the 🔟th @us_awc #ISCNE. Students simulated a crisis in Central Asia crisis & deftly represented delegations from🇰🇬🇰🇿🇺🇿🇹🇯 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇮🇳. Inspired by their creativity, pragmatism, & diplomatic skills.💡
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Kicking off our 10th annual #ISCNE with @us_awc! Students from @NYUCGA & @IRNYU Masters' programs are negotiating a crisis in Central Asia representing delegations from #India🇮🇳 #Kazakhstan🇰🇿 #Russia🇷🇺 #China🇨🇳 #Uzbekistan🇺🇿 #Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 & #Tajikistan 🇹🇯 @NYUSPS @nyuniversity
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Excited to see @NYUCGA & #NYUISET professor @JoshuaKrasna on #Bahrain in @WPReview. You can read here: worldpoliticsreview.com/bahr…
After Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Bahrain Is Thawing Ties With Iran

After Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Bahrain Is Thawing Ties With Iran

Bahrain recently released political prisoners at home and thawed ties with Iran, two related shifts that remain vulnerable to tensions.

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Joshua Krasna@JoshuaKrasna7 Oct 2024
My latest piece, on changes in Bahrain's domestic and foreign policies. worldpoliticsreview.com/bahr…
After Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Bahrain Is Thawing Ties With Iran

After Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Bahrain Is Thawing Ties With Iran

Bahrain recently released political prisoners at home and thawed ties with Iran, two related shifts that remain vulnerable to tensions.

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📑Excited to see @garciiaga in @Perspectives_T. She worked on this & other articles during her 2 years as a visiting fellow @NYUCGA & @nyuiset. The paper explores why 13 Spanish women disengaged from ISIS or de-radicalized based on personal interviews: bit.ly/3XXrwRE
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John V. Kane@UptonOrwell16 Sep 2024
🚨Now out & #OpenAccess in Nature Portfolio! The great @profsamperry and I investigate whether belief that God is in control of Earth's environment affects people's perceived threat of climate change. Using both observational & experimental data, we find that it does! 🧵
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Excellent writeup by Gordon Clubb of the workshop we co-hosted @NYUCGA @NYUSPS w/@UniversityLeeds on developing guidelines for the use of former violent extremists in P/CVE work. Such an important discussion & much needed endeavor. @nyuniversity @nyuCIC medium.com/policy-leeds/shap…
Shaping guidelines to advance global efforts to prevent violent extremism

Shaping guidelines to advance global efforts to prevent violent extremism

Headway is made in preventing and countering violent extremism as practitioners agree minimum standards needed for employing former…

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🌍 This week, thanks to Gordon Clubb & @MdDidarDU, we had the incredible opportunity to host an international workshop @NYUCGA on the development of standards & guidelines for the inclusion of formers in preventing & countering violent extremism initiatives. @NYUSPS
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📝The workshop brought together practitioners from government, NGOs, the private sector, & international organizations as well as scholars working on prevention and disengagement and de-radicalization initiatives across the world to tackle this important, complex issue.
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