584993 external_news 1481661227 1481661373 An article by Nunn School faculty Jenna Jordan, Margaret E. Kosal & Lawrence Rubin. In the last few years, the Islamic State, or IS, has become a central focus of public debates 
about US national security. A May 2016 poll by the Pew Research Center reported that 80 
percent of Americans think IS poses the greatest international threat to the United States. 
As IS has vastly expanded its activities beyond its borders, debates about how to best defeat 
the group typically assume that military power will play the primary role in its defeat. 

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