Will McCants

William McCants is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings and director of its Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, and served as a State Department senior adviser for countering violent extremism. McCants is author of Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam (Princeton University Press), and The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (St. Martin's Press).