Episode 73 – US Military Strike in Somalia and Trump’s Counterterrorism Policy in Africa
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about the US Military Strike in Somalia and Trump’s Counterterrorism Policy in Africa with Prof Colin P Clarke and Lucas Webber.
Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., is the Director of Research at The Soufan Group. Clarke’s research focuses on domestic and transnational terrorism, international security, and geopolitics. Prior to joining The Soufan Group, Clarke was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he spent a decade researching terrorism, insurgency, and criminal networks. At RAND, Clarke led studies on ISIS financing, the future of terrorism and transnational crime, and lessons learned from all insurgencies since the end of the World War II.
Lucas Webber is a Research Fellow at The Soufan Center focusing on Western domestic terrorism, extremist propaganda, financing, and use of technology, violent non-state actors in South and Central Asia, and armed group adaption to the emerging multipolar order. He is the co-founder of the Militant Wire research network, which provides in-depth analysis of the propaganda and operations of armed groups worldwide.
His work has been published in West Point’s CTC Sentinel, Foreign Policy, and The Diplomat and by the Hudson Institute, Lawfare, Nikkei Asia, The Jamestown Foundation, Eurasianet, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, the Irregular Warfare Initiative, and more. His current research interests include the impact of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Hamas conflict on the messaging and militant activities of ideological armed groups regionally and internationally.
About the Podcast
The Conflict & Development in Africa podcast brings experts from Africa and the world as guests to discuss critical conflict and development issues that affect Africa. Our guests include practitioners, academics, journalists, researchers, policy makers and advocates that are renowned and are nationally and internationally recognized for their work, expertise and contribution to conflict and development issues in Africa. Our audience includes policy makers, governments, researchers, students, businesses and anyone that is interested in conflict and development issues in Africa.
About the Host
Dr Michael Nwankpa has an extensive experience spanning over a decade studying, researching, writing and consulting on conflict and development issues in Africa.
Michael Nwankpa has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He has held several research fellowships including as a Rice University Fellow and a terrorism research Fellow (past) at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. He is currently a fellow at the Royal United Service Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and a research fellow at the Geneva-based Centre on Armed Groups. Dr. Nwankpa has extensive experience studying counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies, advising relevant government development departments and security agencies, and consulting for multilateral organizations. Michael is the author of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarized Democracy (Routledge 2022) and co-author of the seminal work on Boko Haram, The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Oxford University Press/Hurst 2018). He has written several articles and is currently working on three book projects.