Stern in The Boston Globe on Donald Trump and ISIS
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on how the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States will affect the fight against the Islamic State.
Stern was quoted in a December 21, 2016 article in The Boston Globe entitled “Trump and ISIS — Bosom Enemies?”
From the text of the article:
Trump’s clash of civilizations plays into violent extremists’ hands by letting them terrorize Americans’ collective psyche and proving ISIS’ case that there’s an irreconcilable West-versus-Islam divide. “This is exactly what they want,” says Jessica Stern of Boston University, coauthor, with J.M. Berger, of “ISIS: The State of Terror.”
It may look like a clash of civilizations “if you’re sitting in Manhattan,’’ said Stern. “It’s actually something else: a clash within Sunni Islam, a sectarian clash between Sunni and Shia, and a clash within Western civilizations” between mostly white, non-Muslims who have benefitted from globalization and those who have lost and are now backing right-wing, populist nationalist movements.
From the text of the article.
Stern’s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror. She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists. She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists. Learn more about her here.