Journal abstract Following 9/11, Al-Qaeda-orchestrated plots were considered the greatest threat to Western security and sparked the coalition’s war on terror. Close to a decade later, the post-9/11 threat landscape[…]
Publisher’s description Some of the world’s most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding large swathes of physical territory, and governing their[…]
Journal abstract The German media have played a much more important role in the context of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) than has been acknowledged. Drawing on criminological approaches to[…]
Journal abstract This article explores the amount and sources of support for the Islamic State among Iraqis. We argue that, in addition to shared identity and ideology, a neglected factor[…]
Journal abstract Many scholars and practitioners claim that labeling groups or individuals as “terrorists” does not simply describe them but also shapes public attitudes, due to the label’s important normative[…]
Journal abstract The exponential growth in the use of the Internet and social media by terrorist actors and violent extremists has generated research interest into terrorism and the Internet. Much[…]
Journal abstract To assist researchers studying the relationships between mass media messages and escalating conflict or peace-building, this article introduces two new datasets generated from Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the[…]
Journal abstract While previous research has examined the effect of the content and context of communication on the communication experience and effect, this study explored their interactive effect with an[…]
Journal abstract This article seeks to explore how the BBC made sense of the al- Qaeda phenomenon in its flagship “News at Ten” bulletin during the aftermath of the September[…]
Journal abstract The article analyses the political communication strategy adopted by Sinn Fe´in in order to legitimize the Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (PIRA) terrorist campaign during their transition from violence[…]
Radicalisation in the Philippines: The Cotabato Cell of the “East Asia Wilayah”17 August, 2018
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