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- in Causes of radicalisation · Research · Think-tank · World
A Comparative Analysis of the Data on Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Who Went and Why?

Journal abstract This report offers a concise, comprehensive, and critical overview of the empirical findings available on the background and possible motivations of the young Western men and women who[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World
Muslim Youth Unemployment and Expat Jihadism: Bored to Death?

Journal abstract Empirical studies analyzing the push factors of expat jihadism are scarce and typically give contradictory results. We hypothesize that youth unemployment, as opposed to overall unemployment, is a[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World
Call of Duty: Jihad – How the Video Game Motif Has Migrated Downstream from Islamic State Propaganda Videos

Journal abstract From a technical standpoint, Islamic State (IS) videos are demonstrably superior to those of other groups. But as time goes by, their aesthetic is migrating downstream as other[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Research
Visual Jihad: Constructing the “Good Muslim” in Online Jihadist Magazines

Journal abstract Images are known to have important effects on human perception and persuasion. Jihadist groups are also known to make strategic use of emotive imagery and symbolism for persuasive[…]

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- in Ideologies · Research
The Spiritual Teacher and His Truants: The Influence and Relevance of Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi

Journal abstract Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi is one of the most important spiritual fathers of the ideology and movement that has come to be known as Salafi-jihadism. Based on primary source[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World
Wilayat Al-Qawkaz – The Islamic State In The North Caucasus. Frames, Strategies And Credibility Of Radical Islamist Propaganda Videos

Journal abstract The growing influence of the terror organization “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) on Russian speaking communities has come to fruition in the North Caucasus. ISIS has[…]

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- in Groups · Ideologies · Research
“Among the Believers Are Men”: How the Islamic State Uses Early-Islamic Traditions to Shape Its Martyr Biographies

Publisher’s description This article examines how the Islamic State has framed its extraordinary losses of manpower by analyzing the role of early-Islamic traditions in the martyr biographies included in its[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Research
Muslim Youth Unemployment and Expat Jihadism: Bored to Death?

Journal abstract Empirical studies analyzing the push factors of expat jihadism are scarce and typically give contradictory results. We hypothesize that youth unemployment, as opposed to overall unemployment, is a[…]

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- in Regions · Research · World
Making Jihadis, Waging Jihad: Transnational and Local Dimensions of the ISIS Phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia

Journal abstract This article examines the ISIS phenomenon in Indonesia and Malaysia. It aims to explain how, where, and why the transnational and local intersect as well as the role[…]

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- in Ideologies · Research
Visuality and the ‘Jihadi-bride’ The re-fashioning of desire in the digital age

Journal abstract This paper examines the controversial figure of the ‘Jihadi Bride’ through her visual depictions in media discourses where she is associated with danger, conflict and the evil Other.[…]

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