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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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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Contesting the EU in times of crisis: The Front National and politics of Euroscepticism in France
Journal abstract This article examines the performance and party system diffusion of Euroscepticism of the French Front National (FN) during recent European crises. The article argues that Europe’s successive crises[…]
Countering Jihadist Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis of French and German Experiences
Journal abstract As France and Germany have become major targets of jihadist terrorism, the calls for stronger cooperation in counterterrorism at the European level have grown in earnest. However, a[…]
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Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West
Publisher’s description The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert[…]
Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India
Publisher’s description Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnographic study of Islamic revival movements in France and India, home to the largest Muslim minority populations in Europe and Asia respectively. Both[…]
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The French “Iraqi Networks” of the 2000s: Matrix of the 2015 Terrorist Attacks?
Journal abstract The networks that were active in sending “volunteers” for the anti-US jihad in Iraq from 2003 to 2007 might have played a key role in organizing the major[…]
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space
Publisher’s description The French government’s 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious[…]
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Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus
Journal abstract The prevalence of criminal backgrounds amongst European jihadists is remarkable. Whether amongst ‘foreign fighters’ that have travelled to Syria and Iraq, or amongst those involved in terrorism in[…]
Paris attacks: there is no simple explanation for acts of terror
The French authorities have named one of the attackers who terrorised Paris on November 13 as Omar Ismail Mostefai, a French national who was reportedly known to the security services[…]
Religious memory on Facebook in times of refugee crisis22 March, 2019
Extreme far right: ‘pick’n’mix’ ideologies and direct messaging online make for deadly new combination20 March, 2019
Fluidity of the Fringes: Prior Extremist Involvement as a Radicalization Pathway20 March, 2019
The psychology of fear and hate, and what each of us can do to stop it18 March, 2019