Category: Articles of the Week

Saturday September 1:
Islamic State Ruling On Assassination Of Abu Hashim al-Idlibi: A Revised Account – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2wQ5jcE
A Military Anthropologist Looks at Islamic Insurgency in Aceh – MontgomeryMcFate, Orbis: https://bit.ly/2MIJcif 
Wednesday September 5:
The Demographics of Southeast Asian Jihadism – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Vivian Hagerty, and Madeline Dement, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/2CxaLqe
Ethics is Method, Method is Ethics: What Terrorism Researchers Should Know – Carol Winkler, Vox-Pol: https://bit.ly/2oOpqDy
Man Haron Monis and the Sydney Lindt Caf’e Siege – Not a Terrorist Attack – Russ Scott and Rodger Shanahan, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law: https://bit.ly/2NpVsnu
Thursday September 6:
Suicide Squads: The Logic of Linked Suicide Bombings – Jason Warner, Ellen Chapin, and Hilary Matfess, Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2wSaPuF
Out of the desert: ISIS’s strategy for a long war – Hassan Hassan, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/2QcRTiX
Friday September 7:
Mali’s elections saw some jihadist violence. Here’s what these patterns suggest. – Alexander Thurston, The Monkey Cage: https://wapo.st/2wQfyO8
New Confusion About ISKP: A case study from Sar-e Pul – Obaid Ali, Afghanistan Analysts Network: https://bit.ly/2QdYhGu 
Nine Bullets for the Traitors, One for the Enemy: The Slogans and Strategy behind the Islamic State’s Campaign to Defeat the Sunni Awakening (2006 – 2017) – Craig Whiteside, ICCT: https://bit.ly/2Nb3mSd
The Disillusioned Muhajir: Interview – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2NZponp

Saturday August 25:
It’s Time to Stop Talking About Terrorists as If They’re Diabolical Geniuses – Gregory D. Johnsen, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/2wA1fwl
Sunday August 26:
Mixing Votes with Violence: Election Violence around the World – Ursula Daxecker and Alexander Jung, SAIS Review of International Affairs: https://bit.ly/2P4nDWa 
Anashid in Hizbullah: Movement Identity through Impassioned Ideology – Carin Berg, The Middle East Journal: https://bit.ly/2P5FagA 
When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement – Rory McCarthy, The Middle East Journal: https://bit.ly/2PcNR99 
Monday August 27:
Does Restrictive Immigration Policy Reduce Terrorism in Western Democracies? – Seung-Whan Choi, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2PLvvgu 
Characteristics of Jihadist Terrorist Leaders: A Quantitative Approach – Lennart van Leeuwen and Daan Weggemans, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2PHC6sb 
Tuesday August 28:
Pulling Back the Curtain: An Inside Look at the Islamic State’s Media Organization – Daniel Milton, Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/2PFPPQl 
Ethics, empathy, and fear in research on violent conflict – Anastasia Shesterinina, Journal of Peace Research: https://bit.ly/2POhFd5 
Balkan Regional Development: Moderate or Radical Islam for the Balkans – Věra Stojarová & Richard Stojar, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/2LLjuVb
Wednesday August 29:
Violent extremism: A comparison of approaches to assessing and managing risk – Caroline Logan and Monica Lloyd, Legal and Criminological Psychology: https://bit.ly/2CuLa15
Thursday August 30:
Liberalism and Religion: Amplifiers of War between Democratic and Non-Democratic States? – Brittnee Carter and Mariya Y. Omelicheva, Democracy and Security: https://bit.ly/2wRHRMd

Sunday August 19:
Measuring radicalisation: risk assessment conceptualisations and practice in England and Wales – Rita Augestad Knudsen, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/2nPqCWG
Tuesday August 21:
Reintegrating ISIS Supporters in Syria: Efforts, Priorities and Challenges – Haid Haid, ICSR: https://bit.ly/2MzKOdt 
The Islamic State in south Syria: an inside look at its internal security apparatus – Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2wp56vZ
Transparency and Integrity in Conducting Field Research on Politics in Challenging Contexts – Aili Mari Tripp, Perspectives on Politics: https://bit.ly/2BFvBTC
Wednesday August 22:
Multimodal visual/sound redundancy in ISIS videos: a close analysis of martyrdom and training segments – Carol Winkler and Jonathan Pieslak, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2o6pEpb
How and Why Armed Groups Participate in Elections – Aila M. Matanock and Paul Staniland, Perspectives on Politics: https://bit.ly/2P2fd1n
Thursday August 23:
Hybrid Warriors and the Formation of New War Masculinities: A Case Study of Indonesian Foreign Fighters – David Duriesmith, Stability: https://bit.ly/2PEDQCC
The Life of Abu Ahmad al-Shari’i of Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2o8CGmo
Friday August 24:
Devoutness to Islam and the Attitudinal Acceptance of Political Violence Among Young Muslims in Germany – Andreas Hadjar David Schiefer Klaus Boehnke Wolfgang Frindte Daniel Geschke, Political Psychology: https://bit.ly/2waQ9hW 

Monday August 13:
How Fear Drives Us Apart: Explaining the Relationship between Terrorism and Social Trust – Amélie Godefroidt and Arnim Langer, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2MTgbwl
Tuesday August 14:
Al-Shabaab’s Mata Hari Network – Katharine Petrich, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/2P4Wa7H 
Instrumentalizing Islam in a ‘Secular’ State: Turkey’s Diyanet and Interfaith Dialogue – Ihsan Yilmaz and James Barry, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/2L2UIiD
Pedagogy of terrorism. Mujahid Guide revisited – Swen Körner and Mario S. Staller, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2BlFl5z
Wednesday August 15:
“One of the Two Good Outcomes”: Turning Defeats into Victories in the Islamic State’s Flagship Magazine Rumiyah – Miron Lakomy, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2BhD7E6
A Neglected Genealogy of the Martyred Heroines of Islam: (Re)-writing Women’s Participation in Jihad Into the History of Late Imperial Gansu – Tommaso Previato, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/2MzzHkD

Tuesday August 7:
Al-Qaeda and ISIS are on Their Heels in Yemen, But Will Return Unless We Help Build a Lasting Peace – Gregory D. Johnsen, Just Security: https://bit.ly/2Mix7PN
Wednesday August 8:
The June 2018 Cologne Ricin Plot: A New Threshold in Jihadi Bio Terror – Florian Flade, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2MbjGC7
The Renewed Jihadi Terror Threat to Mauritania – Geoff D. Porter, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2Os4sVJ
The Islamic State in Africa: Estimating Fighter Numbers in Cells Across the Continent – Jason Warner and Charlotte Hulme, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2MrXxvg
Radical Islamist English-Language Online Magazines: Research Guide, Strategic Insights, and Policy Response – Robert J. Bunker and Pamela Ligouri Bunker, Strategic Studies Institute: https://bit.ly/2vtMhba 
Friday August 10:
‘My Muslim Kurdish brother’: colonial rule and Islamist governmentality in the Kurdish region of Turkey – Mehmet Kurt, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/2Mlt324
Escalating Complexity in Regional Conflicts: Connecting Geopolitics to Individual Pathways to Terrorism in Mali – Elena Dal Santo and Elizabeth Johanna van der Heide, African Security: https://bit.ly/2wdqO5R
Forces of heresy versus forces of conservation: making sense of Hezb-e Islami-ye Afghanistan’s and the Taleban’s positions in the Afghan insurgency – Philipp Münch, Small Wars & Insurgencies: https://bit.ly/2wbaCCb

Sunday July 29:
Mali: “The old man of the mountain” – Héni Nsaibia, MENASTREAM: https://bit.ly/2ADKa9V
Monday July 30:
Assessing the Threat of Terrorism in and from Central Asia – Edward Lemon: https://bit.ly/2LSgafC
Tuesday July 31:
A Brief Update On Ethnic Georgian Foreign Fighters In The Islamic State – Bennett Clifford, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/2Kop1Ab
Restricting Opposition in Elections and Terrorist Violence – Alex Braithwaite and Jessica Maves Braithwaite, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2vx5TKQ
Thursday August 2:
Pathways to Violent Extremism: Evidence from Tajik Recruits to Islamic State – Edward Lemon, Harriman Magazine: https://bit.ly/2LO6tiv
International Military Interventions and Transnational Terrorist Backlash – James A Piazza and Seung-Whan Choi, International Studies Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2xWp1Dc
Terror in the Classroom: Teaching Terrorism Without Terrorizing – Burcu Pinar Alakoc, Journal of Political Science Education: https://bit.ly/2zml4IJ

Monday July 23:
From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’: Tracing the Women and Minors of Islamic State – Joana Cook and Gina Vale, ICSR: https://bit.ly/2AtBl2n
The Multifinality of Vulnerability Indicators in Lone-Actor Terrorism – Emily Corner, Noémie Bouhana, and Paul Gill, Psychology, Crime & Law: https://bit.ly/2M4fGyZ
The “Somalinisation” of terrorism and counterterrorism in Kenya: the case of refoulement – Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2LRDskZ
Pursuing the allure of combat: an ethnography of violence amongst Iraqi Shi’I combatants fighting ISIS – Younes Saramifar, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2v0nY3y
Trends in Terrorists’ Weapons Adoption and the Study Thereof – Nicole A Tishler, International Studies Review: https://bit.ly/2CWNUVa
Tuesday July 24:
Down, but Not Out: An Updated Examination of the Islamic State’s Visual Propaganda – Daniel Milton, Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/2OyRPtd
Finding Extremists in Online Social Networks – Jytte Klausen, Christopher E. Marks, and Tauhid Zaman, Operations Research: https://bit.ly/2Qtjf4m 
Wednesday July 25:
Contemporary Jihadi Militancy in Yemen: How is the Threat Evolving? – Elisabeth Kendall, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/2KeI13Z
Women in Al-Shabaab through a New War’s Lens – Phoebe Donnelly, Women in International Security: https://bit.ly/2OD6cN7
Friday July 27:
Foreign Fighter Returnees: An Indefinite Threat? – David Malet and Rachel Hayes, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2LEwFfg
Islamic State Propaganda: Between Social Movement Framing and Subcultural Provocation – Jan Christoffer Andersen and Sveinung Sandberg, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2vwcQMn

Monday July 16: 
The al-Shabab Finance System – Hiraal Institute: https://bit.ly/2mjIwjL
A New Era of Insurgent Recruitment: Have ‘New’ Civil Wars changed the Dynamic? – William Reno and Jahara Matisek, Civil Wars: https://bit.ly/2JE0W82
What Happens When Your Town Becomes an ISIS Recruiting Ground? Lessons from Central Asia about Vulnerability, Resistance, and the Danger of Ignoring Perceived Injustice – Noah Tucker, Central Asia Program: https://bit.ly/2O2DiFH
Too dangerous for fieldwork? The challenge of institutional risk-management in primary research on conflict, violence and ‘Terrorism’ – Jeffrey Alan Sluka, Contemporary Social Science: https://bit.ly/2mYhY7Z
Tuesday July 17:
The banality of counterterrorism “after, after 9/11”? Perspectives on the Prevent duty from the UK health care sector – Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Erzsébet Strausz, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2LvMFw4
From Jabhat al-Nusra to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham: Evolution, Approach and Future – Aymen Jawad al-Tamimi, KAS: https://bit.ly/2uEeKe0
Wednesday July 18:
Lone Actor Terrorists: A Residence-to-Crime Approach – Zoe Marchment, Noémie Bouhana, and Paul Gill, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2uBsTc4
Thursday July 19:
Press coverage of lone-actor terrorism in the UK and Denmark: shaping the reactions of the public, affected communities and copycat attackers – David Parker, Julia M. Pearce, Lasse Lindekilde, and M. Brooke Rogers, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2zXiigI
Politics and Threat Perception: Explaining Pakistani Military Strategy on the North West Frontier – Paul Staniland, Asfandyar Mir & Sameer Lalwani, Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2LT4Xuq
Rearing Cubs of the Caliphate: An Examination of Child Soldier Recruitment by Da’esh – James Morris & Tristan Dunning, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2Maeevj
Exploring the Radicalization Process in Young Women – Clara Isabel Morgades-Bamba, Patrick Raynal & Henri Chabrol, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2voXidf
Friday July 20:
Burying the Lede: The Islamic State Downsizes? – Brian Dodwell, Daniel Milton, and Muhammad al-‘Ubaydi, Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/2M5ptEW

Monday July 9:
Explaining the 2016 Islamist Mobilisation in Indonesia: Religious Intolerance, Militant Groups and the Politics of Accommodation – Marcus Mietzner & Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Asian Studies Review: https://bit.ly/2uxjpxs
A low-level insurgency in Tunisia’s western mountains is taking an increasing toll on civilians, particularly shepherds, in the first half of 2018 – Heni Nsaibia, ACLED: https://bit.ly/2JjDRHN
The Abbott government and the Islamic State: a securitised and elitist foreign policy discourse – Peter E. Mulherin and Benjamin Isakhan, Australian Journal of Political Science: https://bit.ly/2JkCgRS
Transnational Ethnic Diasporas and the Survival of Terrorist Organizations – James A. Piazza, Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2LbkBhc
Tuesday July 10:
Review of ‘ISIS: A history’ – Aaron Y. Zelin, Politics, Religion & Ideology: https://bit.ly/2uiprTo
Cultural Values Moderate the Impact of Relative Deprivation – Heather J. Smith, Desiree A. Ryan, and Alexandria Jaurique, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology: https://bit.ly/2mtvpwF 
Wednesday July 11:
The Islamic State and Drones: Supply, Scale, and Future Threats – Don Rassler, Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/2L84h0y
The Rise and Fall of Majd – Part I: Childhood in Jordan – Johannes Saal, The German Jihad: https://bit.ly/2Ldgq7I
Women and Support for Terrorism in Pakistan – C. Christine Fair and Ali Hamza, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2zzXlIj
Thursday July 12:
The Rise and Fall of Majd Part II: Adolescence in Switzerland – Johannes Saal, The German Jihad: https://bit.ly/2Lf7Jqu
Friday July 13:
Exposure to Extremist Online Content Could Lead to Violent Radicalization:A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence – Hassan, Ghaydaa, Brouillette-Alarie, Sébastienb, Alava, Séraphinc, Frau-Meigs, Divinad, Lavoie, Lysianea, Fetiu, Arbere, Varela, Wynnpaulf, Borokhovski, Evguenif, Venkatesh, Vivekf, Cécile, Rousseaug, and Sieckelinck, Stijnh, International Journal of Developmental Science: https://bit.ly/2OuhaUj

Sunday July 1:
Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed on Relations With Other Factions: Translation and Analysis – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2N0uT4v
Monday July 2:
Othering the West in the online Jihadist propaganda magazines Inspire and Dabiq – Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Stuart Macdonald, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: https://bit.ly/2m4oUjE
Tuesday July 3:
The New American Way of War: Special Operations Forces in the War on Terrorism – Daniel Byman and Ian A. Merritt, The Washington Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2uhaYGq
Subduing al-Shabaab: The Somalia Model of Counterterrorism and Its Limits – Paul D. Williams, The Washington Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2u3EU9U
Does Violent Secessionism Work? – Ryan D. Griffiths and Louis M. Wasser, Journal of Conflict Resolution: https://bit.ly/2N40Vw7 
Wednesday July 4:
The Holy Month of Jihad? Measuring Terrorist Activity During Ramadan in the Post-9/11 Era – Reinier Bergema and Lucie Kattenbroek, Small Wars Journal: https://bit.ly/2u4qDck 
Trajectories of Radicalized Females in Montreal – Ratna Ghosh, Hicham Tiflati, Alice Chan, and Dilmurat Mahmut, TSAS: https://bit.ly/2zkTVsX
TTP’s Online Women’s Magazine Has a Different Message for Their Female Jihadi Audience Than Rumiyah – Mehwish Rani, Vox-Pol: https://bit.ly/2zkUwLd
Ethnic political exclusion and terrorism: Analyzing the local conditions for violence – Holley E Hansen, Stephen C Nemeth, and Jacob A Mauslein, Conflict Management and Peace Science: https://bit.ly/2KIOk4Y 
Thursday July 5:
Cubs in the Lions’ Den: Indoctrination and Recruitment of Children Within Islamic State Territory – Gina Vale, ICSR: https://bit.ly/2J61PpI
Politics and Islamic revivalism in Bangladesh: the role of the state and non-state/non-political actors – Md Nazrul Islam and Md Saidul Islam, Politics, Religion & Ideology: https://bit.ly/2zi7tFu 
Friday July 6:
Dābiq et la frontière du Dār al-Islām: Histoire et représentations (Ier-Ve siècles H./Viie-Xie siècles) – Eva Collet, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée: https://bit.ly/2KHP5ez
How Turkey and the election of Erdogan are fragmenting the Jihadi movement – Tore Hamming, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/2KEfOZv
Bangladeshi Militants: What Do We Know? – Ali Riaz and Saimum Parvez, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2NxHxJ8
Not just Brainwashed: Understanding the Radicalization of Indonesian Female Supporters of the Islamic State – Nava Nuraniyah, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2MWqtLW
Why They Join: Pathways into Indonesian Jihadist Organizations Julie Chernov Hwang and Kirsten E. Schulze, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2KVuwKM
Radicalisation in the Philippines: The Cotabato Cell of the “East Asia Wilayah” – Sidney Jones, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2J2CCMU
Factional Dynamics within Boko Haram – Omar S Mahmood and Ndubuisi Christian Ani, Institute for Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2KV058z