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Robin Simcox, the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Fellow, specializes in counterterrorism and national security policy.

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Foreign Policy Essay

The Limits of British Citizenship

Robin Simcox   Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 9:00 AM

Editor’s Note: What to do with captured foreign volunteers for terrorist organizations is one of the toughest issues facing Western governments today. (See my views on a current U.S. case here.) Human rights organizations are particularly critical of governments that revoke citizenship or otherwise try to prevent their citizens from returning. Robin Simcox of the Heritage Foundation believes this opposition is simplistic.

Foreign Policy Essay

Children of the Caliphate: Victims or Threat?

Robin Simcox   Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 10:00 AM

Editor’s Note: Of the many horrible things the Islamic State has done, one of the worst is its indoctrination of children and use of them in its gruesome deeds. The children are both victims and perpetrators. Governments have a responsibility to care for them yet must also guard against possible threats they may pose. Robin Simcox of the Heritage Foundation lays out the challenges ahead for several European states, as well as how they might confront this knotty problem.

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Foreign Policy Essay

Can We Stop Terrorist Vehicular Attacks?

Robin Simcox   Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 10:00 AM

Editor’s Note: Among the many terrifying forms of violence ISIS and other terrorist groups are using, one of the newest, and deadliest, is the use of cars and trucks to run down innocent people. So far, governments have struggled in vain to stop this type of attack. Robin Simcox of the Heritage Foundation analyses the threat and identifies a range of policies that can make it less deadly.

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