Articles of the Week – 5/19-5/25

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

Saturday May 19:
The Migrant Train to “The 15:17 To Paris” – Hindsight is 20/20: https://bit.ly/2krOIFA
Monday May 21:
“By Day We Fear the Army, By Night the Jihadists”: Abuses by Armed Islamists and Security Forces in Burkina Faso – Human Rights Watch: https://bit.ly/2GPNcpd
Terrorist Ideologies and Target Selection – Ranya Ahmed, Journal of Applied Security Research: https://bit.ly/2PjhC87
Tuesday May 22:
The Manipulation of Social, Cultural and Religious Values in Socially Mediated Terrorism – Claire Smith, Rosslyn von der Borch, Benjamin Isakhan, Sukendar Sukendar, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto, Ian Ravenscrroft, Ida Widianingsih, and Cherrie de Leiuen, Religions: https://bit.ly/2s6mbcK
The Threat of Returning Foreign Fighters: Finnish State Responses to the Volunteers in the Spanish and Syria-Iraq Civil Wars – Teemu Tammikko, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2IKtkWq
Wednesday May 23:
Salafi pluralism in national contexts: the secular state, nation and militant Islamism in Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia – Shpend Kursani, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies: https://bit.ly/2scCGTM
The Islamic State: Violence and Ideology in a Post-colonial Revolutionary Regime – Brian Mello, International Political Sociology: https://bit.ly/2JRJ3n1
Thursday May 24:
Fiqh al-Daʿwa: The Emerging Standardization of Islamic Proselytism
 – Jamal Malik, Die Welt des Islams:
“I Left To Be Closer To Allah”: Learning about Foreign Fighters from Family and Friends – Amarnath Amarasingam and Lorne L. Dawson, Institute for Strategic Dialogue:
Jihadi Brides? Examining a Female Guesthouse Registry from the Islamic State’s Caliphate – Daniel Milton and Brian Dodwell, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2kr4nVG
“Trucks, Knives, Bombs, Whatever:” Exploring Pro-Islamic State Instructional Material on Telegram – Bennet Clifford, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2LvpKRH
“Deutsche Schabab:” The Story of German Foreign Fighters in Somalia, 2010-2016 – Christian Jokinen, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2xcAq4V
Assessing the Future Threat: ISIS’s Virtual Caliphate – Mia Bloom and Chelsea Daymon, Orbis:
Mapping Today’s Jihadi Landscape and Threat – Colin P. Clarke and Assaf Moghadam, Orbis:
The nascent empirical literature on psychopathology and terrorism – Emily Corner and Paul Gill, World Psychiatry: https://bit.ly/2kF50uI