{"630669":{"#nid":"630669","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Looking back at the Middle East\u2019s 2019: Surprises from Trump, Saudi power moves, protests and more","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/jenna-jordan\u0022\u003EJenna Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in \u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E article, \u0026quot;Looking back at the Middle East\u0026rsquo;s 2019: Surprises from Trump, Saudi power moves, protests and more.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFind an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring an October raid by U.S. Special Operations forces in Syria, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi \u0026mdash; one of the most wanted terrorists in the world \u0026mdash; killed himself by setting off a suicide bomb. But what did the raid achieve? \u0026ldquo;The caliphate may be weakened,\u0026rdquo; wrote\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/11\/05\/death-baghdadi-isnt-end-isis\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_31\u0022\u003EJenna Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026ldquo;But Baghdadi created a highly resilient bureaucratic organizational structure capable of withstanding the loss of leaders.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/12\/29\/looking-back-middle-easts-surprises-trump-saudi-power-moves-protests-more\/\u0022\u003EFind the full article on \u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2020-01-07 15:42:08","changed_gmt":"2020-01-07 15:44:21","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/12\/29\/looking-back-middle-easts-surprises-trump-saudi-power-moves-protests-more\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588593":{"id":"588593","type":"image","title":"Jenna Jordan","body":null,"created":"1489174780","gmt_created":"2017-03-10 19:39:40","changed":"1489174780","gmt_changed":"2017-03-10 19:39:40","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224306","name":"jordan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jordan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jordan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":429488,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jordan.jpg?itok=a-acH6O7"}}},"media_ids":["588593"],"groups":[{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4062","name":"Middle East"},{"id":"3763","name":"international security"},{"id":"169209","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}