Theory-Testing Uyghur Terrorism in China
Journal abstract Analysis of terrorism perpetrated by Uyghurs inside China and the presence of Uyghur fighters in the warzones from Afghanistan to Syria has been divided as to whether such[…]
Category: World
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Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats
Publisher’s description Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the[…]
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The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council: A Revolutionary Islamist Coalition in Libya
Journal abstract The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC) – later renamed the Derna Protection Force – was a coalition of Libyan revolutionary Islamist groups in the city of Derna in[…]
Social context, interpersonal network, and identity dynamics: A social psychological case study of terrorist recidivism
Journal abstract The existing literature on jihadist terrorism has extensively documented the importance of networks, yet the interpersonal element of the networks and how this links to the social identity[…]
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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[…]
Terrorism and tourism in the Caribbean: a regional analysis
Journal abstract Previous studies have found evidence that terrorism negatively impacted tourism in individual countries, but studies with larger number of countries have found less evidence for this negative linkage.[…]
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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[…]
Promoting Extreme Violence: Visual and Narrative Analysis of Select Ultraviolent Terror Propaganda Videos Produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2015 and 2016
Journal abstract This paper examines aspects of violent, traumatic terrorist video propaganda produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the theoretical confines of abjection and the[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
Theory-Testing Uyghur Terrorism in China14 December, 2018
Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats12 December, 2018
What a difference two years make: patterns of radicalization in a Philippine jail10 December, 2018
The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council: A Revolutionary Islamist Coalition in Libya7 December, 2018