ISIS Propaganda
Publisher’s description This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State’s use of propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, and[…]
Tagged: Islamic-State
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Online Deceptions: Renegotiating Gender Boundaries on ISIS Telegram
Journal abstract This resarch note examines the ways in which Islamic State supporters on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, renegotiate gender boundaries. The introduction positions receptions of female ISIS accounts[…]
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Losing Mood(s): Examining Jihadi Supporters’ Responses to ISIS’ Territorial Decline
Journal abstract The fall of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has raised a number of questions over the future of the organization and the potential threat it might[…]
The Threat of Transnational Terrorist Groups in Kashmir
Journal abstract The present analysis is based mainly on personal local observations in Kashmir. The situation on the ground is vulnerable and can facilitate the penetration of transnational terrorist groups[…]
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From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists: Human Resources of Non State Armed Groups
Publisher’s description At the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, thousands of pro-democracy rebel groups spontaneously formed to fight the Assad regime. Years later, the revolution was unrecognizable as[…]
Between Child Soldiers and Terrorists: Reintegrating Child Members of The Islamic State
Journal abstract In parts of the Republic of Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic controlled by the Islamic State children were subjected to systematic indoctrination into extremist ideologies, with many[…]
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Rethinking Political Islam
Publisher’s description For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever obtained power. Now, academics and Islamists alike finally have answers. And they are confusing. In the[…]
Benevolent Radicalization: An Antidote to Terrorism
Journal abstract Most political activism occurs within social norms and the democratic consensus, but a minority mobilize in a consciously perilous manner. When this is premised upon sacred values, one[…]
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Linguistic analysis of pro-ISIS users on Twitter
Journal abstract The present study analyzed the differences in the language usage between pro-ISIS users and random users on Twitter. Based on the literature, it was expected that, when comparing[…]
Countering Insurgencies and Violent Extremism in South and South East Asia
Publishers description This volume of case studies examines the rise in violent extremism, terrorism and insurgency in South and South East Asia, and subsequent state responses. The South and South[…]
Processes of Radicalization and Polarization in the Context of Transnational Islamist Terrorism5 June, 2020
Impacts of the ‘War on Terror’ on the (De-)Humanization of Christians in Pakistan: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Reporting3 June, 2020- Political Mobilisation as the Trigger of Xenophobic Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa1 June, 2020
The Myth of Russian Exceptionalism: Russia as a Civilization and Its Uniqueness in Aleksandr G. Dugin’s Thought29 May, 2020