Journal abstract In recent months recurrent calls have been made by conservative right-wing politicians to designate Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” in the United States. Fixated on the spectacle of[…]
Journal abstract Following the rise in far-right inspired terrorist attacks globally, social media and electronic communications companies have been criticized, mainly by politicians, for allowing far-right extremist content to be[…]
Journal abstract In the last few years, incel violence has been the subject of many excellent journalistic accounts, but — with few notable exceptions, whose insights will be acknowledged and[…]
Journal abstract The quality of studies drawing primary data from terrorists and violent extremist respondents varies substantially, with this body of literature exhibiting a variety of repeating methodological issues. For[…]
Journal abstract While conventional wisdom holds that the ideology espoused by a terrorist organization is somehow related to that organization’s actions, the precise nature of the relationship between these phenomena[…]
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[…]
Publisher’s description Terrorism has a variety of contexts, histories and forms which have all been the focus of intense scrutiny in recent years, whilst cultural representations of the terrorist have[…]
Publisher’s description The words ‘rebellion’ and ‘revolution’ have gained renewed prominence in the vocabulary of world politics and so has the question of justifiable armed ‘resistance’. In this book Christopher[…]
Publisher’s description Conceptualizing Terrorism argues that, in the post 9/11 world, the need for an internationally agreed definition of terrorism is more important than it has ever been, despite the[…]
Journal abstract This study presents American state police agencies’ perceptions about three significant terrorism and public safety issues. First, we asked about the threat posed by specified extremist groups nationally[…]
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