Will McCants (born 1975), also known as William Faizi McCants, is a scholar of militant Islamism. He is a fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the

Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econo ...

. An adjunct faculty member at

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

, he is a former senior advisor on

violent extremism Violent extremism is a form of extremism that condones and enacts violence with Ideology, ideological or deliberate intent, such as Religious violence, religious or political violence. Violent extremist views often conflate with Religious violen ...

to the U.S. State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Founder and co-editor of the website Jihadica, he is also a former research analyst for CNA, a non-profit organization that encompasses the Center for Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research.

Career

Described by William Maclean, the security correspondent for

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, as "a leading scholar of militant

Islamism Islamism is a range of religious and political ideological movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems. Its proponents believe Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a political system is superior to communism ...

", McCants is author of a 2011 book titled
Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam
'' based on his doctoral research at

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. McCants is co-editor of Jihadica.com, which ''

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'' described as "a respected website".

Books

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References

External links

Jihadica
* {{DEFAULTSORT:McCants, Will F. Princeton University alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty Living people 1975 births Place of birth missing (living people)