Future of Terrorism Project

How long will the war on terror last? Can it be won? How do the terrorists view and exploit Western weaknesses? How do we prepare for future terrorist attacks? What form might those attacks take? What are the most effective counterterrorist strategies? What is the current state of Jihad around the globe? What is “mutant Jihadism,” how dangerous is it, and what can be done to stop it?

When governments and media need answers to these and other questions, they turn to Dr. Walid Phares, a world-renowned Middle East expert whose advice and counsel has been sought for the past two decades by officials from the United States, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, France, Great Britain, Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. A professor of Middle East Studies and a native Arabic speaker who is fluent in French, Dr. Phares played an important role in the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which called for Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon. As an FDD senior fellow, Dr. Phares regularly conducts briefings for the European Parliament and Commission, the U.N. Security Council, foreign governments, the U.S. Congress, and the U.S. departments of State, Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security. Dr. Phares is the author of nine books on the Middle East, including the Foreign Affairs best-seller, Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West, published in 2006, and The War of Ideas: Jihad Against Democracy, published in 2007, and The Confrontation, Winning the War Against Future Jihad, published in 2008.

Dr. Phares reaches millions of people as a terrorism analyst for Fox News and through radio and television appearances around the world, including the BBC, al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, and Alhurra. He writes frequently for academic publications and newspapers, including Global Affairs, Middle East Quarterly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, National Review, and the Chicago Sun-Times.

In 2006, FDD established the Future of Terrorism Project (FTP) with Dr. Phares as its director. The FTP examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat the new and more lethal strains of terrorism that threaten the United States and the Free World. While the program expands the world’s knowledge of the terrorism threat through its research and analysis, Dr. Phares and project members also consult and work cooperatively with officials worldwide to develop defenses against this terrorism.

The Future of Terrorism Project holds conferences with experts offering a broad spectrum of expertise from government, academia, and the international policy community. FDD’s partner organization, the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), acts as the FTP liaison with the European Union and individual European governments.

Dr. Walid Phares

“The work of Professor Walid Phares is a beacon that helps us to see and understand the extent of the Jihadist threat the world is facing.”

— Former Prime Minister of Spain Jose Maria Aznar

Media

In the Media

Print & Online
Ft Hood's Terror: The US Failed By Tts Own Experts, World Defense Review (01/21/2010)
Haiti: It's not Only America's Duty to Help, Human Events (01/20/2010)
U.S. Must Brace for Haitian Refugees, quoted by Jim Meyers, Newsmax (01/20/2010)
Al-Qaida Holds The Upper Hand, The Bulletin (01/12/2010)
Abdelmutalib: A Jihadi Human Missile, The Cutting Edge News (01/11/2010)

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Broadcast
Happening Now, Fox News Channel (02/07/2010)
Fox and Friends (02/05/2010)
Dateline Washington, Radio America (02/05/2010)
Fox 5 Morning News, Fox News 5 (DC) (02/04/2010)
Nothing But Truth, Syndicated (02/02/2010)

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Mentions
New Ally in the War Against Al Qaeda?, quoted by Ben Evansky, FoxNews.com (01/28/2010)
Making Them Talk, quoted by Tim Starks, CQ Weekly (01/11/2010)
Strike on CIA Base Tests U.S. Assessment of al Qaeda, quoted by Adam Entous, Reuters (01/05/2010)
Frustration And Radical Ideology May Have Motivated Nigerian Suspected Bomber, Professor Says, quoted by Douglas Mpuga, Voice of America (12/30/2009)
Obama Ignoring Threat of Global Terrorist War, interview with Dan Weil, Newsmax (12/29/2009)

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International Media
News Update, Russia Today Arabic (01/29/2010)
Evening Edition, France 24 (01/28/2010)
Evening Edition, France24 Francais (01/28/2010)
News Update, Future News (01/27/2010)
US Bill on Anti Terror TV, World Council for the Cedars Revolution (01/23/2010)

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President's Notes

Notes & Comments (11/23/2004)
Notes & Comments (10/19/2004)

Press Releases

Dr. Walid Phares to Speak at the EPP Conference in Vienna On "Transatlantic Strategies to Counter Terror" (10/13/2009)
Dr. Walid Phares to participate in Trans-Atlantic Legislative Summit on Counter Terrorism (09/17/2009)
Congressional Letter Puts Focus on Struggle for Freedom in Advance of Presidential Address in Egypt (06/01/2009)
Religious Freedom Day on the Hill (06/16/2006)
FDD Middle East Expert Walid Phares Visits Europe to Discuss Iran, Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Future (01/27/2006)

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Research

Briefings and Testimonies

Looking at the President's Assessment of the Iraq Campaign (04/01/2008)
Bin Laden's Threat Uncovers Jihadist Message for Europe (03/20/2008)

Publication Archive

Immediate Attention to the Dangerous Developments in Lebanon, Web site: http://www.wlcu.com/ (03/07/2005)
After the Hariri Assassination: Syria, Lebanon, and U.S. Policy (03/03/2005)
Analysis: The Attack in Kabul, a Message to New York (08/29/2004)

Events

Dr. Walid Phares to testify at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade
November 18, 2009
Dr. Walid Phares Moderates Panel Featuring Congressional Members and Muslim Leaders
July 20, 2009
Phares to Summer Student Camp in Norfolk: "Your Generation Will Find the Solutions to Many of the World's Problems That My Generation Couldn't."
July 18, 2009
Dr. Walid Phares Speaks at Center for Security Policy's National Security Lunch
June 19, 2009
Walid Phares Honored at Capitol Hill Reception
May 6, 2009

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From the Blogs

al Qaeda has the initiative in attacking US national security, Counterterrorism Blog (01/06/2010)
Abdelmutalib's Act of War, Counterterrorism Blog (01/01/2010)
Taliban's Counter Strategy is based on declared US Strategy, Counterterrorism Blog (12/07/2009)
Fort Hood: The largest "Terror act" since 9/11, Counterterrorism Blog (11/05/2009)
Taliban' s War on Pakistan: Lessons to draw, options to pursue, Counterterrorism Blog (10/20/2009)

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Dr. Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies where he focuses on Middle East history and politics, global terrorist movements, democratization and human rights. Dr. Phares also leads the foundation's Future of Terrorism Project, which considers how the Jihadi-Islamist threat will mutate over time and what can be done to defend against new, more deadly strains of terrorism...more

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Dr. Michael Ledeen to speak at Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar
February 16, 2010 —

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February 22, 2010 —
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