Articles of the Week – 10/31-11/6

Monday November 2:

Motives Don’t Matter? Motive Attribution and Counterterrorism Policy – Daphna Canetti, Joshua Gubler, and Thomas Zeitzoff, Political Psychology: https://bit.ly/3exmfsV

France’s War in the Sahel and the Evolution of Counter-Insurgency Doctrine – Michael Shurkin, Texas National Security Review: https://bit.ly/351ayHQ

Unholy Alliances and their Threat: The Convergence of Terrorism, Organized Crime and Corruption – Emilio C. Viano, International Annals of Criminology: https://bit.ly/2JJ5YpC

The Islamic State’s Pattern of Sexual Violence: Ideology and Institutions, Policies and Practices – Mara Redlich Revkin and Elisabeth Jean Wood, Journal of Global Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2IuPb98

Tuesday November 3:

The effects of Assad’s atrocities and the call to foreign fighters to come to Syria on the rise and fall of the ISIS Caliphate – Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/3k6dO9f

Linear Relationships Between Islamic State’s Extent of Territorial Control and its Visual Messaging Campaign – Carol Winkler, GNET: https://bit.ly/2GxkVK2

Between the Coalition, ISIS, and Assad: Courting the Tribes of Deir ez-Zor – Kayla Koontz and Gregory Waters, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/3l9h0lO

Thursday November 5:

“The Lapsed Abode of Unbelief”. The Takfīr Pendulum in Ǧihādī-Salafī Thought, Between the Caliphate and its West African Province – Alessio Iocchi and Andrea Brigaglia, Studi Magrebini: https://bit.ly/3nn7SLa

Friday November 6:

Social Media and the Murder of Samuel Paty – Laurence Bindner and Raphael Gluck, GNET: https://bit.ly/32H3j6k