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Videos – Understanding Global Political Violence: Iraq and Saudi Arabia

On May 31, AGSIW hosted researchers and guests from the Chicago Project on Security and Threats to present findings and insights into political violence across the globe for 2021.

Robert A. Pape, Ibrahim Baig and Keven Ruby
Videos – Understanding Global Political Violence: Iraq and Saudi Arabia

Robert Pape explains the three separate surges in violence facing the Iraqi government.

Iraq and Syria remain the primary focus for Islamic State propaganda and recruitment.

Videos targeting Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have faded since 2018 as the Islamic State has lost territory.

Robert A. Pape

is the founding director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats and a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

Ibrahim Baig

is the manager of the Arabic Propaganda Analysis team at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, where he researches propaganda strategy and narratives of terrorist groups, like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and al-Qaeda, directed at the Arabic-speaking world.

Keven Ruby

is a senior research associate and research director for the Chicago Project on Security and Threats at the University of Chicago.

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