After Baghdadi is before Baghdadi: How the West still has to fight ISIS
How will IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s killing impact ISIS as a terror organisation and the situation in Syria? Host Mark Leonard is joined by Anthony Dworkin and Asli Aydıntaşbaş to analyse the current events and political implications for Syria’s neighbouring countries, the US and the EU. As the European Union has failed to come up with a coherent policy on how to handle their citizens who travelled to join ISIS, they argue it would still be best, to bring them home and to try them there. But how could the EU member states go ahead with the process?
Further read: “Beyond good and evil: Why Europe should bring ISIS foreign fighters home” by Anthony Dworkin
The podcast was recorded on 30 October 2019.
Bookshelf:
- “Sweet Caress” by William Boyd
- “They will have to die now” by James Verini
- “The Topeka School” by Ben Lerner
- “Human Compatible” by Stuart Russell