Category: Articles of the Week

Monday June 25:
Studying Jihadists on Social Media: A Critique of Data Collection Methodologies – Deven Parekh, Amarnath Amarasingam, Lorne Dawson, and Derek Ruths, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2lIUWBB
Public Opinion on the Root Causes of Terrorism and Objectives of Terrorists: A Boko Haram Case Study – Adesoji O. Adelaja, Abdullahi Labo (Late), and Eva Penar, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2IBAw6c
How Hezbollah Uses Dreams to Inspire Jihad and Sanctify Martyrdom – Kendall Bianchi, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2KyBMsW
A Primer on Boko Haram Sources and Three Heuristics on al-Qaida and Boko Haram in Response to Adam Higazi, Brandon Kendhammer, Kyari Mohammed, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, and Alex Thurston – Jacob Zenn, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2tGm2xp
The Turkish Foreign Fighters and the Dynamics behind Their Flow into Syria and Iraq – Murat Haner, Ashley Wichern, and Marissa Fleenor, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2lKO9aq
Tuesday June 26:
Another Tunisian With IS That Was In Germany With Chemical Experience – Aaron Y. Zelin, Tunisian Jihadism: https://bit.ly/2KxTQ9M
Wednesday June 27:
Young Blood: Understanding the Emergence of a New Cohort of Australian Jihadists – Shandon Harris-Hogan & Kate Barrelle, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2Kw4GcZ
Violence, Insecurity, and Religiosity: A Multilevel Analysis of 71 Countries – Miguel Carreras and Ajay Verghese, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2u1SgmO
Thursday June 28:
A Tale of Two Caliphates: Comparing the Islamic State’s Internal and External Messaging Priorities – Dounia Mahlouly and Charlie Winter, Vox-Pol: https://bit.ly/2Mw3yH0
The Insurgency in Tunisia’s Western Borderlands – Matt Herbert, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: https://ceip.org/2IBuu5L
Friday June 29:
Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed Call for Migration: Translation and Analysis – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2umI5sL
Fugitive Bangladeshi Militants Bring Jamaat ul Mujahideen to India – Animesh Roul, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/2ySPK7C 
Boko Haram in Celebration? An Analysis of Four Years of Ramadan Videos (2015-2018) – Jacob Zenn, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/2tRxgyu 
Wilayat al-Qawkaz – The Islamic State in the North Caucasus. Frames, Strategies and Credibility of Radical Islamist Propaganda Videos – Anna Seib, Journal for Dereadicalization: https://bit.ly/2yYVRXW 
From Total Islam to the Islamic State: Radicalization Leading to Violence Dynamics as a Subject of Reciprocal Affordance Opportunities – Asaad Almohammad, Journal for Deradicalization: https://bit.ly/2tS2cOV 

Sunday June 17:
The Life of Abu Waheed al-Heetawi of Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2JXWnup
America’s Terrorism Problem Doesn’t End with Prison—It Might Just Begin There – Lorenzo Vidino and Seamus Hughes, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/2K1lQ5a
Monday June 18:
Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed “Public Relations” Document: Translation and Analysis – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2trgg1O
Thursday June 21:
The Operational Development and Empirical Testing of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP–18) – J. Reid Meloy, Journal of Personality Assessment: https://bit.ly/2K9mOsY
Life under the Taliban shadow government – Ashley Jackson, Overseas Development Institute: https://bit.ly/2ttwI1p 
Friday June 22:
The Cup and the Caliphate: Russia’s Counterterrorism Operations Before Major Sporting Events and the Global Jihadist Movement – Bennett Clifford, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/2Ig7gSw
The Surabaya Bombings and the Evolution of the Jihadi Threat in Indonesia – Kirsten E. Schulze, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2KBNDK5
Children at War: Foreign Child Recruits of the Islamic State – Dakota Foster and Daniel Milton, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2tJBDLU
The Islamic State’s Veterans: Contrasting the Cohorts with Jihadi Experience in Libya and Afghanistan – David Sterman, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2yUTQvV
The 2016 French Female Attack Cell: A Case Study – Robin Simcox, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2IzVxyd
Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed Recruitment Form: Translation and Analysis – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2KkEG8z

Monday June 11:
Destinazione Jihad: i Foreign Fighters d’Italia – Francesco Marone and Lorenzo Vidino, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale: https://bit.ly/2l9K9Qp
Wednesday June 13:
Sunni Suicide Attacks and Sectarian Violence – Seung-Whan Choi and Benjamin Acosta, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2JEc21M
Thursday June 14:
Is another Boko Haram or al-Shabaab erupting in Mozambique? – Peter Fabricius, Institute for Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2t1UthN
Liège Attacker Connected to Tunisian Jihadi Veterans? – Aaron Y. Zelin, Tunisian Jihadism: https://bit.ly/2LR1MA0

Saturday June 2:
Why do pastoralists in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecological explanation – Tor A. Benjaminsen & Boubacar Ba, The Journal of Peasant Studies: https://bit.ly/2l1seex
Sunday June 3:
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s Relationship With Turkey: Primary Texts – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2M7YyZE
Monday June 4:
Examining the utility of social control and social learning in the radicalization of violent and non-violent extremists – Thomas J. Holt, Joshua D. Freilich, Steven M. Chermak, and Gary LaFree, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: https://bit.ly/2M8BxGd
From Revolution Muslim to Islamic State: An Inside Look at the American Roots of ISIS’ Virtual Caliphate – Mitchell Silber and Jesse Morton, New America Foundation: https://bit.ly/2sEGiOO 
Violence-producing Dynamics of Fragile States: How State Fragility in Iraq Contributed to the Emergence of Islamic State – S. Yaqub Ibrahimi, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2JEDDiw
Fratricidal Jihadists: Why Islamists Keep Losing their Civil Wars – Mohammed M. Hafez, Middle East Policy: https://bit.ly/2Ji0bX2 
Tuesday June 5:
A House Divided: Origins and Persistence of the Islamic State’s Ideological Divide – Cole Bunzel, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/2kWzMPR
Innovation and terror: an analysis of the use of social media by terror-related groups in the Asia Pacific – Julian Droogan, Lise Waldek, and Ryan Blackhall, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2Huan97
Wednesday June 6:
Islamic State Attacks in Tunisia – Aaron Y. Zelin, Tunisian Jihadism: https://bit.ly/2kPALBc 
Using Internet search data to examine the relationship between anti-Muslim and pro-ISIS sentiment in U.S. counties – Christopher A. Bail, Friedolin Merhout, and Peng Ding, Science Advances: https://bit.ly/2LxbM0Y
Thursday June 7:
Jihadist propaganda, offline: Strategic communications in modern warfare – Charlie Winter and Haid Haid, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/2kVYRdH
Friday June 8:
Unbeatable: Social Resources, Military Adaptation, and the Afghan Taliban – Theo Farrell, Texas National Security Review: https://bit.ly/2ICLs4n

Tuesday May 29:
Exit programmes for female jihadists: A proposal for conducting realistic evaluation of the Dutch approach – Amy-Jane Gielen, International Sociology: https://bit.ly/2sFl9F2
Tunisian terrorist fighters: a grassroots perspective – Imene Ajala, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/2LMBPWB
Wednesday May 30:
Plan B(ruxellles): Belgian Intelligence and the Terrorist Attacks of 2015-16 – Kenneth L. Lasoen, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2L9hcio
How Al-Qaeda Works: The Jihadist Group’s Evolving Organizational Design – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Nathaniel Barr, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/2sIzFL5
Thursday May 31:
Jihad in the Bastion of “Moderation”: Understanding the Threat of ISIS in Malaysia – Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman and Aida Arosoaie, Asian Security: https://bit.ly/2LfyavP
Friday June 1:
Jamā’at Nuṣrat al-Islām wa-l-Muslimīn: a propaganda analysis of al-Qaeda’s project for the Sahel – Sergio Altuna Galán, Real Instituto Elcano: https://bit.ly/2HdhORN
Citizenship and Ancestry of Belgian Foreign Fighters – Pieter Van Ostaeyen and Guy Van Vlierden, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague: https://bit.ly/2kDsy34
The Internal Structure of the Islamic State’s Hisba Apparatus – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis: https://bit.ly/2JiuKvA

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: https://bit.ly/2GLJOMj 
“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: https://bit.ly/2s8zJ6V 
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: https://bit.ly/2ILl8ct 
Mapping Today’s Jihadi Landscape and Threat – Colin P. Clarke and Assaf Moghadam, Orbis: https://bit.ly/2ktMy8l 
The nascent empirical literature on psychopathology and terrorism – Emily Corner and Paul Gill, World Psychiatry: https://bit.ly/2kF50uI

Saturday May 12:
Radicalization: A Relational Perspective – Donatella della Porta, Annual Review of Political Science: https://bit.ly/2rJPelB 
Sunday May 13:
Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future – Kawaljeet Kaur Kapoor, Kuttimani Tamilmani, Nripendra P. Rana, Pushp Patil, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, and Sridhar Nerur, Information Systems Frontiers: https://bit.ly/2ITck3B
Tuesday May 15:
Still under the IS’s Black Flag: Qari Hekmat’s ISKP island in Jawzjan after his death by drone – Obaid Ali, Afghanistan Analysts Network: https://bit.ly/2In7kon 
Changes and stabilities in the language of Islamic state magazines: a sentiment analysis – Logan Macnair & Richard Frank, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: https://bit.ly/2IQVrX7
An Historical Comparison of Religious Revival – Sandra Halperin, International Studies Review: https://bit.ly/2MhUky3
Thursday May 17:
Lack of rule of law as a push factor leading to violent radicalization in the North Caucasus (2002–2015) – Adrián Tarín-Sanz and Marta Ter-Ferrer, Caucasus Survey: https://bit.ly/2rRek2y
Friday May 18:
Brothers in Alms: Salafi Financiers and the Syrian Insurgency – Thomas Pierret, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: https://ceip.org/2ItzJFq
Campuses and Conflict in the Lake Chad Basin: Violent Extremism and the Politics of Religion in Higher Education – Alexander Thurston, Resolve Network: https://bit.ly/2KqN41A

Saturday May 5:
Members of Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed from East Deraa Countryside – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2IzYQti
Sunday May 6:
Gray Media Under the Black and White Banner – Audrey Alexander and Helen Christy Powell, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/2ww6T5A
Tuesday May 8:
What They Really Want Is a Caliphate! British Salafi Reactions to the Arab Spring – Kirstine Sinclair, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/2ryUYz8
Online jihadist magazines and the “religious terrorism” thesis – Stuart Macdonald, Nyasha Maravanyika, David Nezri, Elliot Parry & Kate Thomas, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2IeGafw
Wednesday May 9:
How violence happens (or not): Situational conditions of violence and nonviolence in Bahrain, Tunisia, and Syria – Isabel Bramsen, Psychology of Violence: https://bit.ly/2rvMIz0 
Representing the West and “non-believers” in the online jihadist magazines Dabiq and Inspire – Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Anina Kinzel & Luke Walker, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2G8X8tA
Boko Haram Beyond the Headlines: Analyses of Africa’s Enduring Insurgency – Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/2jTu2pL
Brides, black widows and baby-makers; or not: an analysis of the portrayal of women in English-language jihadi magazine image content – Orla Lehane, David Mair, Saffron Lee, and Jodie Parker, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2I74a8h
Thursday May 10:
The afterlife of Osama bin Laden: performative pictures in the “war on terror” – Gabi Schlag, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2rychk2
An Interview with Umm Mohammed: The Wife of Bin laden’s Spiritual Mentor Abdullah Azzam – Tam Hussein: https://bit.ly/2KeLdNu
The Party of God: The Association of Algerian Muslim ‘Ulama’ in Contention With the Nationalist Movement After World War II – Shoko Watanabe, International Journal of Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/2KD7kxt
On the Making and Unmaking of Arab States – Ariel I. Ahram, International Journal of Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/2IU9dZr
Friday May 11:
Limited Statehood and its Security Implications on the Fragmentation Political Order in the Middle East and North Africa – Abel Polese and Ruth Hanau Santini, Small Wars & Insurgencies: https://bit.ly/2rAwFQH 
Questioning the current public health approach to countering violent extremism – Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Global Public Health: https://bit.ly/2J6T6aF

Monday April 30:
The Islamic State Targets Tunisia Ahead of Elections – Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near Policy: https://bit.ly/2r9Fj8z 
Tackling Terrorism’s Taboo: Shame – Matthew Kriner, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2raumn3 
Spaces, Ties, and Agency: The Formation of Radical Networks – Stefan Malthaner, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2raYA9A 
Headhunting Among Extremist Organizations: An Empirical Assessment of Talent Spotting – Steven Windisch, Michael K. Logan, Gina Scott Ligon, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2rbxH5d 
A Response to Jacob Zenn on Boko Haram and al-Qa’ida – Adam Higazi, Brandon Kendhammer, Kyari Mohammed, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Alex Thurston, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2HCP0HA 
Tuesday May 1:
The Pre-2011 Roots of Syria’s Islamist Militants – Line Khatib, The Middle East Journal: https://bit.ly/2wdIemn
The Ethics of Security Research: An Ethics Framework for Contemporary Security Studies – Stephane J Baele, David Lewis, Anke Hoeffler, Olivier C Sterck, and Thibaut Slingeneyer, International Studies Perspectives: https://bit.ly/2jQzHwI
Negative spaces: Terrorist attempts to erase cultural history and the critical media coverage – Adam Klein, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/2IVz8k1 
Wednesday May 2:
Did bin Laden’s death help the Islamic State? – Tricia Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault, Monkey Cage: https://wapo.st/2rlMI4t
What do we know about suicide bombing?: Review and analysis – Veronica Ward, Politics and the Life Sciences: https://bit.ly/2JQZ0ts
Thursday May 3:
Going underground: Resort to terrorism in mass mobilization dissident campaigns – Margherita Belgioioso, Journal of Peace Research: https://bit.ly/2KBNyTt 
Construction Jihad: state-building and development in Iran and Lebanon’s Shiʿi Territories – Eric Lob, Third World Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2waCBW8
Emotions, Terrorist Threat, and Drones: Anger Drives Support for Drone Strikes – Kerstin Fisk, Jennifer L. Merolla, Jennifer M. Ramos, Journal of Conflict Resolution: https://bit.ly/2KHsxH4 

Sunday April 22:
The Life of Abu Omar al-Muwahhid of Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2JB3Drr
Monday April 23: 
Sometimes they come back: responding to American foreign fighter returnees and other Elusive threats – Christopher J. Wright, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/2KnD3U0
Islamic State Ruling on Jaysh Khalid Fitna: Translation and Analysis – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2HxY7sZ
Framing the ‘White Widow’: Using intersectionality to uncover complex representations of female terrorism in news media – Meagan Auer, John Sutcliffe, Martha Lee, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/2resIkt 
Wednesday April 25:
Colonial education and the shaping of Islamism in Sudan, 1946–1956 – Willow Berridge, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/2HzIdOT
Thursday April 26:
Conceptualising de-radicalisation and former combatant re-integration in Nigeria – Gordon Clubb and Marina Tapley, Third World Quarterly: https://bit.ly/2HyORRh
NYPD vs. Revolution Muslim: The Inside Story of the Defeat of a Local Radicalization Hub – Jesse Morton and Mitchell Silber, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2jc5tUn
The Islamic State’s Lingering Legacy among Young Men from the Mosul Area – Scott Atran, Hoshang Waziri, Ángel Gómez, Hammad Sheikh, Lucía López-Rodríguez, Charles Rogan, and Richard Davis, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2HyoPlt
Challenging the ISK Brand in Afghanistan-Pakistan: Rivalries and Divided Loyalties – Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani, and Charmaine Willis, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2KmXK2r
The British Hacker Who Became the Islamic State’s Chief Terror Cybercoach: A Profile of Junaid Hussain – Nafees Hamid, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2vPt6v8
Friday April 27:
With Islamic State in Decline, What’s Al-Qaeda’s Next Move? – Tore Refslund Hamming, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/2r5XTyk
Whose Responsibility is it to Confront Terrorism Online? – Seamus Hughes, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/2vPtjOW
‘I grew a beard and my dad flipped out!’ Co-option of British Muslim parents in countering ‘extremism’ within their families in Bradford and Leeds – Madeline-Sophie Abbas, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: https://bit.ly/2JyOrek
A Doomed Relationship: Ennahdha and Salafism – Sabrina Zouaghi and Francesco Cavatorta, Baker Institute for Public Policy: https://bit.ly/2HxfFp8 
In Their Own Words: Religiosity and the Islamic State Foreign Fighters – Lorne L. Dawson, Oxford Research Group: https://bit.ly/2rbYoaP