Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan
Journal abstract Terrorists who believe they have a role to play in bringing about the apocalypse pose a serious threat to countries around the world. In their quest to eradicate[…]
Category: Radicalisation
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Caribbean Taliban: Cuban American Terrorism in the 1970s
Journal abstract Most scholars have not taken Cuban-American terrorism in the 1970s seriously, despite the unprecedented campaign of terror it unleashed. Borrowing a framework of self-identity usually applied to other[…]
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Social Networks as the New Frontier of Terrorism
Publisher’s description Terrorism. Why does this word grab our attention so? Propaganda machines have adopted modern technology as a means to always have their content available. Regardless of the hour[…]
What a difference two years make: patterns of radicalization in a Philippine jail
Journal abstract Recent high-profile terrorist attacks have led to attempts by social scientists to investigate the processes behind radicalization. Prisons have been identified as possible breeding grounds for radical extremism.[…]
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Why People Radicalize: How Unfairness Judgments are Used to Fuel Radical Beliefs, Extremist Behaviors, and Terrorism
Publisher’s description Why People Radicalize, Kees van den Bos argues that if we want to truly understand radicalization and prevent, attenuate, and fight violent extremism and terrorism, we must pay[…]
On the Pathway to Violence: West German Right-Wing Terrorism in the 1970s
Journal abstract West German society faced the emergence of a new calibre of right-wing terrorism in the 1970s. Right-wing terrorist groups evolved that showed themselves willing and able to commit[…]
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Exploring the “Demand Side” of Online Radicalization: Evidence from the Canadian Context
Journal abstract We examined whether and how social media play a role in the process of radicalization, and whether and for what purposes extremists use social media after they become[…]
Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan
Journal abstract Terrorists who believe they have a role to play in bringing about the apocalypse pose a serious threat to countries around the world. In their quest to eradicate[…]
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Caribbean Taliban: Cuban American Terrorism in the 1970s
Journal abstract Most scholars have not taken Cuban-American terrorism in the 1970s seriously, despite the unprecedented campaign of terror it unleashed. Borrowing a framework of self-identity usually applied to other[…]
Telling stories of terrorism: a framework for applying narrative approaches to the study of militant’s self-accounts
Journal abstract Narrative has recently garnered in much attention in the study of terrorism but remains poorly understood. This paper offers some initial steps towards translating the promise of narrative[…]
Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan15 February, 2019
Caribbean Taliban: Cuban American Terrorism in the 1970s13 February, 2019- Testing Transitions: Extremist Prisoners Re-Entering Indonesian Society8 February, 2019
Pakistan: The Taliban, Al Qaeda, and the Rise of Terrorism6 February, 2019