Following is the ultimate guide to what top think tanks experts are saying about ISIS. Please note that this list will be updated periodically.
Brookings:
- Philippe Le Corre: Hollande comes to Washington: Can France and the US lead the fight against ISIS?
- Shadi Hamid: The perils of Islamic apologetics: Does ISIS really have nothing to do with Islam?
- Bruce Reidel: Saudi Arabia is part of the problem and part of the solution to global jihad; and Modeled on Mumbai? Why the 2008 India attack is the best way to understand Paris.
- Mara Revkin and William McCants: Is ISIS good at governing?
- William McCants: Post-Paris, how should we think about the relationship between ISIS and Islam; and How the Islamic State declared war on the world.
- William Galston: Hillary Clinton lays out a strategy for defeating ISIS.
- Javier Lesaca: Fight against ISIS reveals power of social media.
- Jeremy Shapiro: How not to overreact to ISIS.
- Alberto Fernandez: Four ways to counter ISIS propaganda more effectively.
- Daniel Byman: Why ISIS might regret the decision to go global; and Five things to know about the Paris attack.
- Hafez Ghanen: Economic inclusion can help prevent violent extremism in the Arab world.
- J.M. Berger: How terrorist recruit online (and how to stop it).
- Fred Dews: ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State? A terminology primer.
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR):
- Richard Haass: After Paris.
- Max Boot and Jeane Kirkpatrick: Islamic State's achilles' heel: its Sunni identity; and To defeat ISIS, it must be an American fight; and How to fight a real war on ISIS.
- Philip Gordon: How to address the cause, not the symptoms, of ISIS.
- Zachary Laub and Jonathan Masters: Islamic State backrounder.
- Micah Zenko: Can thinking like a terrorist prevent attacks on airplanes?
- Steven Cook: The Islamic State and the aftermath of Paris.
- Farah Pandith: Islamic State dominates the digital battlefield.
- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: What will change now?
- Graeme Wood: ISIL: Who is calling the shots?
American Enterprise Institute (AEI):
- John Bolton: To defeat ISIS, create a Sunni state; and Four important lessons the world must learn from the French tragedy.
- Ramesh Ponnuru: Call Islamic terrorism what it is.
- Frederick Kagan and Kimberly Kagan: Do's and Dont's - How the US should respond to the Paris attacks; and What to do and don't do in response to the Paris attacks.
- Marc Thiessen: ISIS terrorists have already infiltrated America posing as refugees.
- J. Matthew McInnis: After Paris, can Iran be counted on to help defeat ISIS?
- Karlyn Bowman, Heather Sims, Eleanor O'Neil: AEI Political Report - The terrorist threat now.
- Gary Schmitt: After Paris - More to come?
- Dalibor Rohac: Five lessons from the Paris attacks for Europe.
- Danielle Pletka: On the Paris terrorist attacks.
Center for a New American Security (CNAS):
- Richard Fontaine: ISIS in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
- Robert Kaplan: ISIS and the logic of anarchy.
- Alex Velez-Green: A better, smarter approach to beating ISIS.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS):
- Anthony Cordesman: Paris, ISIS, and the long war against extremism; and Paris, ISIS and the rush to "war."
- Simond de Galbert: The stakes for France as Hollande rallies against Islamic State; and After the Paris attacks, France turns to Europe in its time of need.
- Thomas Sanderson: The Paris attacks (Q&A)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP):
- Joseph Bahout: ISIS and Syria - What to do and not do about it.
- Marc Pierini: Pressures on the West to shift strategies against the Islamic State.
- Alex Velez-Green: A better, smarter approach to beating ISIS.
US Institute of Peace (USIP):
- Gopal Ratnam: ISIS isn't the deadliest extremist group.