William McCants directs the project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. He is adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University and a former U.S. State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. McCants has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
**One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Must-Read Books on the
Evolution of Terrorism in the Middle East**' **One of ABC News's
Books of the Year in 2015**
"Excellent" --Aatish Taseer, The New York Times "The story [of
Zarqawi's rise] is well told by William McCants in his excellent
new book, The Isis Apocalypse" --David Ignatius, The Atlantic
"Every policymaker and any concerned citizen who wants to
understand the rise of ISIS should read this insightful and
essential book by one of our greatest scholars of Islamist
movements." --Lawrence Wright, author, THIRTEEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER:
Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David and LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda
and the Road to 9/11 "It's hard to imagine anything more alien or
revolting than the brutality of the Islamic State. Yet Will
McCants's ISIS Apocalypse is lucid, thoughtful and illuminating on
the group, its history, ideology and personalities. McCants
understands every nuance of the religious concepts that drive the
ISIS leadership, and he does a masterful job of explicating them
and laying out the group's strategy. This is much the best work yet
on the Islamic State." --Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, State
Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism (2009-2012) "No one
knows more about ISIS's doomsday theology than Will McCants.
McCants listens to the group with uncommon care and subtlety, and
policymakers need to read this book to understand ISIS's origins
and plans." --Graeme Wood, Edward R. Murrow Fellow, The Council on
Foreign Relations Contributing editor, The Atlantic Lecturer in
political science, Yale University "An excellent account of how
ISIS came into being...As to the future, McCants wonders if ISIS's
grotesque brutality will prove its undoing. Not necessarily. Up to
a point, he argues, brutality works" --The Economist
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