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BOOKS

The War of Ideas

By Walid Phares
From Afghanistan and Iraq to Europe and the U.S., we are engaged in one of the most heated wars of all time. In this incisive...more

 

 

 

PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES

FEATURED PROJECTS

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The U.S. is vulnerable to an emerging threat. An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could "cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure."

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The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) is dedicated to identifying effective strategies and techniques to combat the threat of terrorism.

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The Center for Law & Counterterrorism puts FDD in the forefront of legal aspects of the war on terrorism – finding the proper, shifting balance that protects both our freedoms and our safety.

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The Future of Terrorism Project examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat new, more lethal strains of terrorism that now threaten America and the free world.

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We are sending hundreds of billions of dollars in oil money to regimes hostile to our interests and our way of life. Our national and economic security is at risk as long as oil has a monopoly in the transportation sector.

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The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) brings together Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular groups -- American and European -- concerned about the threat posed by terrorist-owned media outlets.

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The Committee on the Present Danger's goal is to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.

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Africa, often called the “forgotten front” in the global war on terror, has become the next major front in the war by militant Islamism.

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A Pandora's box of corruption and incompetence at the United Nations has been exposed since FDD hired Claudia Rosett as its own investigative reporter and assigned her to the beat.

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Through educating the policy community and the public about the deadly activities of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, FDD attacks its most vulnerable points: its worldwide media operations, its standing in the United States and Europe, its finances, and its efforts to support terror around the world.

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MEDIA & RESEARCH

IN FOCUS

Talk Like An Egyptian
In his remarks following the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last week, President Obama echoed the pro-democracy protestors in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. When he said, “something in our souls … cries out for freedom,” he sounded a lot like George W. Bush. The Wall Street Journal quipped: "We are all neocons now."Well, maybe not all. In Lebanon, Hezbollah is snuffing out the Cedar Revolution – a body blow to American and European strategic interests, not to mention what this means for the people of Lebanon. ...more
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
02/17/2011



MEDIA

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In the Media

Pyramid Scheme
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
02/10/2011


How Democracy Became Halal
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The New York Times
02/6/2011


Egyptology
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
02/3/2011


Press Releases

FDD Praises Senators Gillibrand and Kirk, Reps. Deutch and Burton for New Iran Sanctions Legislation
02/16/2011

Notes and Comments

 

POLICY RESEARCH

Palestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn From Palestinian Social Media
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz
10/19/2010


FDD Report on Iran's Energy Partners
Mark Dubowitz, Laura Grossman
08/5/2010


Testimony Before The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on The Impact of U.S. And European Sanctions on Iran
Mark Dubowitz
07/29/2010


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FEATURED EXPERT
Khairi Abaza is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he is focused on democratic reform in the Arab world, the spread of terrorism, and the influence of the media on politics.  Abaza has served as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Cultural Committees of the Egyptian Wafd Party, and is pursuing his doctorate in politics from the University of London. ...more
EVENTS
Reuel Marc Gerecht debates "Is Iran a Paper Tiger?"
February 24, 2011 —

Intelligence Squared Debate

Iran is a Paper Tiger

February 24th 2011

London, UK

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Claudia Rosett to Speak at Cornell University on North Korea and Iran
February 28, 2011 —

Freedom and Free Societies at Cornell University presents

"From Axis of Evil to Partners in Proliferation: North Korea and Iran"

Claudia Rosett, Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for Defense of Democracies 

110 Rockefeller Hall

4:30pm

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FROM THE BLOGS
From The Rosett Report: When In Doubt, Slam Israel by Claudia Rosett, 02/17/2011
For the Islamic despotisms of the Middle East, it’s an old rule of thumb...more

From The Corner, NRO: One Last Patriot Point by Andrew C. McCarthy, 02/17/2011
Some reader responses and emailers argue that the GOP defectors should be cut slack because they voted against reauthorization not because they opposed the Patriot Act provisions at issue but to defend the principle that all bills should make time for debate and for proposed amendments, etc...more

From The Corner, NRO: The Patriot Act and the Tea Party, continued … by Andrew C. McCarthy, 02/17/2011
Our readers’ comments on my post from last evening about the (temporary) defeat of reauthorization for three Patriot Act provisions are, as one expects, well informed...more

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