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[…]
Tagged: terrorism
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Jihad & Co : Black Markets and Islamist Power
Publisher’s description The rise of militant jihadist groups is one of the greatest international security crises in the world today. In civil wars across the modern Muslim world, Islamist groups[…]
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Is It Terrorism?: Public Perceptions, Media, and Labeling the Las Vegas Shooting
Journal abstract When a mass casualty event occurs, why do some people label it terrorism while others do not? People are more likely to consider an attack to be terrorism[…]
Terrorist assassinations and societal unrest in Africa: a research brief
Journal abstract This exploratory research brief examines social unrest in Africa in the aftermath of terrorist assassinations. Assassination is a tactic of violence in modern terrorist campaigns and assassinations are[…]
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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Fundamentalism, Radicalisation and Terrorism
Publisher’s description Terrorism is no longer woven into the backdrop of our daily lives, but rather it has been pushed to centre stage – an ongoing tragedy in which comprehension[…]
Homegrown Violent Extremism
Publishers description In the country’s changing threat environment, homegrown violent extremism (HVE) represents the next challenge in counterterrorism. Security and public policy expert Erroll Southers examines post-9/11 HVE – what[…]
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Understanding the effectiveness and desirability of de-radicalisation: How de-radicalisation is framed in The Daily Mail
Journal abstract Research on de-radicalisation has been primarily concerned with the efficacy of de-radicalisation programmes and their negative consequences. However, there has been little research on how the public perceives[…]
Greece’s Ulrike Meinhof: Pola Roupa and the Revolutionary Struggle
Journal abstract Pola Roupa’s arrest in 2016 was the final nail in the coffin of Revolutionary Struggle, the first guerrilla group to emerge on Greece’s terrorist landscape after the 2002[…]
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A ‘Tale of two Jihadis’? Improperly conflating terrorists and foreign fighters in the Arab spring
Journal abstract This article draws on a unique dataset of state-level data for 196 countries to establish answers to three research questions. We begin by exploring whether a global spike[…]
The Terrorism Information Environment: Analysing Terrorists’ Selection of Ideological and Facilitative Media
Journal abstract This article studies media material which individuals who planned or carried out acts of terrorism in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2017 collected before their involvement in[…]
Do Machines Replicate Humans? Toward a Unified Understanding of Radicalizing Content on the Open Social Web14 October, 2019
Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube11 October, 2019
Rethinking Political Islam9 October, 2019
Credibility contests and the ebb and flow of anti-minority activism7 October, 2019