Israeli fire brigade teams douse the blaze in a parking lot outside a residential building following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinian militants have begun a "war" against Israel, the country's defense minister said on Oct. 7 after a barrage of rockets were fired and fighters from the Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images
The unprecedented attack on Israel, to which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded with airstrikes and a declaration of war on Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, is the latest flare-up of what is becoming a global normalization of extreme violence.
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
