Category: Articles of the Week

Monday December 16:

When Conflicts Do Not Overspill: The Case of Jordan – Petter Nesser and Henrik Gråtrud, Perspectives on Politics: https://bit.ly/2rdRc1f

Thursday December 17:

Creating Coexistence- Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq – Salma Mousa: https://bit.ly/34HqYBV

Wednesday December 18:

Sheep to Slaughter: The Afghan Tragedy in Five Acts – David B. Edwards, Journal of Religion and Violence: https://bit.ly/2Z3kTyh

Signs of the Merciful: ‘Abdullah ‘Azzam (d. 1989) and the Sacralization of History in Jihadist Literature, 1982–2002 – Mathias Müller, Journal of Religion and Violence: https://bit.ly/2Q0ajUK

The 2016 Copenhagen ‘Matchstick’ Terror Plot and the Evolving Transnational Character of Terrorism in the West – Tore Hamming, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2PFTP5e

Eliminating Extremism: A Legal Analysis of Hate Crime and Terrorism Laws in the United States – Wesley S. McCann and Nicholas Pimley, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/34KgykS

The Attitudes-Behaviors Corrective (ABC) Model of Violent Extremism – James Khalil, John Horgan, and Martine Zeuthen, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2s8PRZT

Thursday December 19: 

Guidelines to facilitate the use and admissibility as evidence in national criminal courts of information collected, handled, preserved and shared by the military to prosecute terrorist offences (“Military Evidence”) – United Nations: https://bit.ly/36WmEjS

The logic of transnational outbidding: Pledging allegiance and the escalation of violence – Megan Farrell, Journal of Peace Research: https://bit.ly/2PJXqiW

Exploring the Social-Ecological Factors that Mobilize Children into Violence – Emma Cardeli, Mia Bloom, Sarah Gillespie, Tanya Zayed, and B. Heidi Ellis, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2tDyNf8

The Risk of Jihadist Contagion in West Africa – International Crisis Group: https://bit.ly/2F6MENf

Monday December 9:

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Italian Exceptionalism and Its Limits – Andrea Beccaro and Stefano Bonino, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2YKimsG

Brothers in Arms: The Phenomenon of Complex Suicide Attacks – Mohammed Ibrahim Shire and Abdi Hersi, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2LT7jIz

The Western Jihadi Subculture and Subterranean Values – Simon Cottee, The British Journal of Criminology: https://bit.ly/2EdKnzt

Tuesday December 10:

Explaining Intelligence Failure: Rethinking the Recent Terrorist Attacks in Europe – Peter Gill, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: https://bit.ly/2LTjbu9

Wednesday December 11:

The Syria Effect: Al-Qaeda Fractures – Charles Lister, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/2qSC35k

Rehabilitating the Bin‘aliyya: al-Maqdisi and the Scholarly Remnant of the Islamic State – Cole Bunzel, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/36y3pgg

Extremists and unconventional weapons: examining the pursuit of chemical and biological agents – Thomas R. Guarrieri and Collin J. Meisel, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/34jYM7O

President Trump’s Travel Ban: inciting or deterring terrorism? – Omi Hodwitz and Hailee Tracy, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/34gXSJr

Beyond the In-Person Interview? How Interview Quality Varies Across In-person, Telephone, and Skype Interviews – David R. Johnson, Christopher P. Scheitle, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, Social Science Computer Review: https://bit.ly/2RZjzeH

Thursday December 12:

A Tale of Two Mosuls, The resurrection of the Iraqi armed forces and the military defeat of ISIS – Maarten P. Broekhof, Martijn W. M. Kitzen, and Frans P. B. Osinga, Journal of Strategic Studies: https://bit.ly/34j4BlS

Friday December 13:

Behind the Jihadist Attack in Niger’s Inates – Hannah Armstrong, International Crisis Group: https://bit.ly/2Z98qcB

Saturday November 30:

The non-translation strategy in translating ISIS radical discourse – Samia Bazzi, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: https://bit.ly/2R73lzG

Sunday December 1:

Security sector corruption and military effectiveness: the influence of corruption on countermeasures against Boko Haram in Nigeria – Daniel Kofi Banini, Small Wars & Insurgencies: https://bit.ly/34YnNqe

Monday December 2:

This Is Your Brain on Terrorism: The Science Behind a Death Wish – Scott Atran, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/2Piwu8h

Can Terrorism Abroad Influence Migration Attitudes at Home – Tobias Böhmelt, Vincenzo Bove, and Enzo Nussio, American Journal of Political Science: https://bit.ly/36cO2d4

Tuesday December 3:

Martyr or Mystery? Female Suicide Bombers and Information Availability – Michael J. Soules, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/38corCK

Wednesday December 4:

Intersections of ISIS media leader loss and media campaign strategy: A visual framing analysis – Carol Winkler, Kareem El-Damanhoury, Zainab Saleh, John Hendry, and Nagham El-Karhili, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/2DPFNY4

Thursday December 5:

Telegram Deplatforming ISIS Has Given Them Something to Fight For – Amarnath Amarasingam, Vice: https://bit.ly/38g783x

They are from within us: CVE brokerage in South-central Somalia – Linnéa Gelot and Stig Jarle Hansen, Conflict, Security & Development: https://bit.ly/36wn2oP

Lethal Images: Analyzing Extremist Visual Propaganda from ISIS and Beyond – Stephane J Baele, Katharine A Boyd, and Travis G Coan, Journal of Global Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2Eb7NWm

Friday December 6:

The Islamic State in Libya Has Yet to Recover – Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/2spp0se

“Yes, I can”: what is the role of perceived self-efficacy in violent online-radicalisation processes of “homegrown” terrorists? – Linda Schlegel, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: https://bit.ly/2RZisvx

Saturday November 23:

Not My Brother’s Keeper: Factional Infighting in Armed Islamist Movements – Mohammed M. Hafez, Journal of Religion and Violence: https://bit.ly/2roFAsj

“Cleansing the Earth of the Stench of Shirk”: The Islamic State’s Violence as Acts of Purification – Pieter Nanninga, Journal of Religion and Violence: https://bit.ly/2YmFm0O

Sunday November 24:

The Mysterious Assassination That Unleashed Jihadism – Thomas Hegghammer, History News Network: https://bit.ly/37UKtKf

Monday November 25:

Caliph Abu Unknown: Succession and Legitimacy in the Islamic State – Haroro J. Ingram and Craig Whiteside, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/37S1Nzq

Course Correction: The Muslim World League, Saudi Arabia’s Export of Islam, and Opportunities for Washington – Sarah Feuer, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/2KTpddY

The Handicapped Suicide Bombers of The Islamic State – Hugo Kaaman: https://bit.ly/2Y4C2qX

Vaccinating Against Hate: Using Attitudinal Inoculation to Confer Resistance to Persuasion by Extremist Propaganda – Kurt Braddock, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/37K7kbf

Tuesday November 26:

Next in Line to Lead al-Qa`ida: A Profile of Abu Muhammad al-Masri – Ali Soufan, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2XZyfLD

An Examination of Jihadi Recidivism Rates in the United States – Christopher Wright, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2OmgZx0

Drugs and Terrorism: The Overlaps in Europe – Rajan Basra, ICSR: https://bit.ly/2DmrqKK

Wednesday November 27:

We Need a ‘Visual Turn’ in Violent Online Extremism Research – Maura Conway, Vox-Pol: https://bit.ly/2XY3YwC

Digital Jihad: Online Communication and Violent Extremism – ed. Francesco Marone, ISPI: https://bit.ly/2P00SEb

Sunday November 17: 

Trinidad’s Islamic State Problem – Simon Cottee, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/2D783VF

Monday November 18:

Returning to the Fight: An Empirical Analysis of Terrorist Reengagement and Recidivism Mary Beth Altier,Emma Leonard Boyle, and John G. Horgan, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2OF6sMp

Policy expertise and use of evidence in a populist era – Brian W. Head and Subho Banerjee, Australian Journal of Political Science: https://bit.ly/33cDnNe

Temporal Dynamics in Covert Networks: A Case Study of the Structure behind the Paris and Brussels Attacks – Jasmijn M. Remmers, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/34mRKjP

Preventing radicalisation in Norwegian schools: how teachers respond to counter-radicalisation efforts – Martin M. Sjøen and Christer Mattsson, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2Oy2vsG

Tuesday November 19:

Merging actors with events: introducing the social conflict analysis dataset – organizational properties (SCAD-OPs) Idean Salehyan and Ayal Feinberg, International Interactions: https://bit.ly/2XCzq3q

Insurgent Bureaucracy: How the Taliban Makes Policy – Ashley Jackson and Rahmatullah Amiri, USIP: https://bit.ly/35pMbkp

Wednesday November 20:

Virtual Plotters. Drones. Weaponized AI?: Violent Non-State Actors as Deadly Early Adopters – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Matt Shear, and David Jones, Valens Global: https://bit.ly/35qbhjd

Thursday November 21:

Typology of Terror: The Backgrounds of Australian Jihadis – Rodger Shanahan, Lowy Institute: https://bit.ly/2OFj6L6

Analyzing ethnographic interviews: Three studies on terrorism and nonviolent resistance – Stephanie Dornschneider, International Political Science Review: https://bit.ly/2XCfL3L

Monday November 11:

Mapping Connections and Cooperation between Terrorist and Criminal Entities – Arie Perliger and Michael Palmieri, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/378AAbq

Comparing the Different Behavioral Outcomes of Extremism: A Comparison of Violent and Non-Violent Extremists, Acting Alone or as Part of a Group – Sarah Knight, David Keatley, and Katie Woodward, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2qU1Qty

‘Cooking the Meal of Terror’ Manipulative Strategies in Terrorist Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of ISIS Statements – Mohamed El-Nashar and Heba Nayef, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2qUX4vT

Controlling Message and Messenger: Singapore’s Ongoing Efforts to Bureaucratize Islam – James R. Sullivan, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/2OhV2Oe

Dangerous Contenders: Election Monitors, Islamic Opposition Parties, and Terrorism – Kerim Can Kavakli and Patrick M. Kuhn, International Organization: https://bit.ly/2r0KtXN

Tuesday November 12:

What radicalized Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? New scholarship shows that the Islamic State leader was shaped by the chaos of post-2003 Iraq – Samuel Helfont, The Monkey Cage: https://wapo.st/2Qb2AVv

A comparison of ISIS foreign fighters and supporters social media posts: an exploratory mixed-method content analysis – Leevia Dillon, Loo Seng Neo, and Joshua D. Freilich, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/2OeneSe

Wednesday November 13:

Lone Offender: A Study of Lone Offender Terrorism in the United States (1972-2015) – Federal Bureau of Investigation: https://bit.ly/379eG7J

Getting a Grip on Central Sahel’s Gold Rush – International Crisis Group: https://bit.ly/2ObEFDZ

Thursday November 14:

Caliph Incognito: The Ridicule of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi – Cole Bunzel, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/32R5Qs3

When Organizations Rebel: Introducing the Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence (FORGE) Dataset – Jessica Maves Braithwaite, and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, International Studies Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2Ocf9P5

Friday November 15:

Constructing place identity: ISIS and Al-Qaeda’s branding competition over the Caliphate – Kareem El Damanhoury, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy: https://bit.ly/2KIu8Or

Saturday November 2:

Grievances and Fears in Islamist Movements: Revisiting the Link between Exclusion, Insecurity, and Political Violence – Ioana Emy Matesan, Journal of Global Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2WUDJXm

Monday November 4:

Sacred struggles: How Islam shapes politics in Mali – Andrew Lebovich, European Council on Foreign Relations: https://bit.ly/34HagTr

Tuesday November 5:

Transnational Shi’ism in Southern China and the Party-state’s “Hawza” Diplomacy – Mohammed Turki Al-Sudairi, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/34MfGwL

Insights from a deradicalization program in Indonesian prisons: The potential benefits of psychological intervention prior to ideological discussion – Hamdi Muluk, Ahmad Naufalul Umam, and Mirra Noor Milla, Asian Journal of Social Psychology: https://bit.ly/34JtMiq

Wednesday November 6:

Extremism and toxic masculinity: the man question re-posed – Elizabeth Pearson, International Affairs: https://bit.ly/2PZI3mY

Frontier justice: international law and ‘lawless’ spaces in the “War on Terror” – Alexandria J Nylen, European Journal of International Relations: https://bit.ly/36I1iHr

The Tumult over Transparency: Decoupling Transparency from Replication in Establishing Trustworthy Qualitative Research – Michael G. Pratt, Sarah Kaplan, and Richard Whittington, Administrative Science Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2NTw3C5

The ‘Islam of the Government’: The Islamic High Councils in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia – Francesco Tamburini, Journal of Asian and African Studies: https://bit.ly/32KHWOM

Thursday November 7:

The Middle East is Violence: On the Limits of Comparative Approaches to the Study of Armed Conflict – Jacob Mundy, Civil Wars: https://bit.ly/34HtqZt

Saturday October 26:

In Syria, the Women and Children of ISIS Have Been Forgotten – Devorah Margolin, Joana Cook, and Charlie Winter, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/2C4b8p6

Sunday October 27:

“Terrorism as Veiled Suicide: A Comparative Analysis” – Anna Geifman, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2JFyKEI

Monday October 28:

Blood and scripture: how the Islamic State frames religion in violent video propaganda – Matthew M. Sweeney and Meghan Kubit, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: https://bit.ly/2C0oAdy

Islamist Terrorism, Diaspora Links and Casualty Rates – James A. Piazza and Gary LaFree, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2oo4hn8

“The Khilafah’s Soldiers in Bengal”: Analysing the Islamic State Jihadists and Their Violence Justification Narratives in Bangladesh – Saimum Parvez, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/34dar8L

Islamic State Propaganda and Attacks: How are they Connected – Nate Rosenblatt, Charlie Winter and Rajan Basra, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/36cRWDl

Towards Open and Reproducible Terrorism Studies: Current Trends and Next Steps – Sandy Schumann, Isabelle van der Vegt, Paul Gill and Bart Schuurman, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2q2jeLW

Taking Terrorist Accounts of their Motivations Seriously: An Exploration of the Hermeneutics of Suspicion – Lorne L. Dawson, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2BPzx1x

An Evaluation of the Islamic State’s Influence over the Abu Sayyaf – Veera Singam Kalicharan, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2WoIUii

Countering Violent Extremism Globally: A New Global CVE Dataset – Caitlin Ambrozik, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2PqDhi8

Profiles of Islamist Militants in Bangladesh – Shafi Md Mostofa and Dr. Natalie Doyle, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2p8rgTL

Adversity, Criminality, and Mental Health Problems in Jihadis in Dutch Police Files – Anton Weenink, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2MScx8d

“Their Fate is Tied to Ours”: Assessing AQAP Governance and Implications for Security in Yemen – Joana Cook, ICSR: https://bit.ly/34mTMA0

How an Islamist party managed to legitimate its authoritarianization in the eyes of the secularist opposition: the case of Turkey Ihsan Yilmaz, Mehmet Efe Caman, and Galib Bashirov, Democratization: https://bit.ly/2JFLueu

When Jihadist Factions Split: A Data-Driven Network Analysis – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson, Daniele Bellutta, Chiara Pulice, and V.S. Subrahmanian, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/34kULAr

Debunking the Smuggler-Terrorist Nexus: Human Smuggling and the Islamic State in the Middle East – Luigi Achilli and Alessandro Tinti, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/34mlsVq

Tuesday October 29:

Baghdadi Is Dead But His Legend Lives On – Aaron Y. Zelin, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/2JHr0C1

Wednesday October 30:

ISIS genocide against the Yazidis and mass violence in the Middle East – Vicken Cheterian, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/2JAOzfV

Minor Misery: What an Islamic State Registry Says About the Challenges of Minors in the Conflict Zone – Daniel Milton and Don Rassler, Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/2PyR2LH

Thursday October 31:

Once more, with feeling: using sentiment analysis to improve models of relationships between non-state actors – Kevin T. Greene and Caleb Lucas, International Interactions: https://bit.ly/36pLAR9

The genesis of insurgency in northern Mozambique – David M Matsinhe and Estacio Valoi, Institute for Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2qDNcpT

Once more, with feeling: using sentiment analysis to improve models of relationships between non-state actors Kevin T. Greene and Caleb Lucas, International Interactions: https://bit.ly/2ZMBfvP

Friday November 1:

What Explains Taxation by Resource-Rich Rebels? Evidence from the Islamic State in Syria – Mara Revkin, The Journal of Politics: https://bit.ly/36m21xU

Jihadism from a Subcultural Perspective – Jeppe Fuglsang Larsen and Sune Qvotrup Jensen, Critical Criminology: https://bit.ly/2NuKVqo

Keeping Armed Actors Out: The Protective Effect of Shuras in Afghanistan – Jori Breslawski, Journal of Global Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2K2EhVQ

Monday October 21:

Strength from the Shadows? How Shadow Economies Affect Terrorist Activities – Amira Jadoon and Daniel Milton, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2Wbnrcv

War, Bureaucracy, and Controlling Religion in Saddam’s Iraq – Samuel Helfont, POMEPS: https://bit.ly/2PpMd74

Reimagining the Hawza and the State: According to Shi‘a clerics, what is the ideal relationship between religion and the state? – Marsin Alshamary, POMEPS: https://bit.ly/365Spat

Understanding Displacement Decisions During Rebel Governance: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq – Mara Redlich Revkin, POMEPS: https://bit.ly/32K4XCo

Tuesday October 22:

Unexpected Allies: The Impact of Terrorism on Organised Crime in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia – Guillermo Kreiman and Mar C. Espadafor, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2Wl0LXm

Deradicalization through Double-Loop Learning? How the Egyptian Gamaa Islamiya Renounced Violence – Carolin Goerzig, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/32Mef0L

Wednesday October 23:

The Islamic State in Syria After the U.S. Withdrawal – Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/32KiMRa

Friday October 25:

Equestrianism in Jihadi Cultures – Christopher Anzalone, Ibn Siqilli: https://bit.ly/2N5Edqh

Saturday October 12:

Iraq Confronts Its Own Prisoner’s Dilemma – Vera Mironova, Sam Whitt, Dara Tahseen Assi, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/2J4FY4G

Does Al Qaeda Have a Future? – Daniel Byman, The Washington Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2J4G8ZQ

Monday October 14:

Switching Sides: Exploring Violent Extremist Intergroup Migration Across Hostile Ideologies – Daniel Koehler, Political Psychology: https://bit.ly/2q5lO3U

Analyzing person‐exposure patterns in lone‐actor terrorism Implications for threat assessment and intelligence gathering – Caitlin Clemmow, Noémie Bouhana, and Paul Gill, Criminology & Public Policy: https://bit.ly/2MtbjQU

Describing Perceptions of Media Influence among Radicalized Individuals: The Case of Jihadists and Non-Violent Islamists – Philip Baugut and Katharina Neumann, Political Communication: https://bit.ly/2BnKZBp

Tuesday October 15:

The Islamic State in India’s Kerala: A primer – Kabir Taneja and Mohammed Sinan Siyech, Observer Research Center: https://bit.ly/2ox4Xa1

New figures on European nationals detained in Syria and Iraq – Rik Coolsaet and Thomas Renard, Egmont Institute: https://bit.ly/2MByiry

An investigation into microcycles of violence by the Taliban – Julie Haukland Rieber-Mohn and Kartikeya Tripathi, Security Journal: https://bit.ly/31r2lI5

Thursday October 17:

Women in Islamic State: From Caliphate to Camps – Gina Vale, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague: https://bit.ly/2P0fGnW

Cows, Charcoal, and Cocaine: Al-Shabaab’s Criminal Activities in the Horn of Africa – Katharine Petrich, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2J2rD92

Crime-Terror Interactions in Sub-Saharan Africa – James J. F. Forest, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2MpTd21

#rebel: Rebel communication strategies in the age of social media – Cyanne E Loyle and Samuel E Bestvater, Conflict Management and Peace Science: https://bit.ly/2K13wb6

Friday October 18:

Wilayat al-Hawl: ‘Remaining’ and Incubating the Next Islamic State Generation – Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/2MtA1R2