Category: Articles of the Week

Monday December 14:

Scriptural legitimation and the mobilisation of support for religious violence: experimental evidence across three religions and seven countries – Ruud Koopmans, Eylem Kanol, and Dietlind Stolle, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: https://bit.ly/34pQCOg

Tuesday December 15:

My Beloved Brothers in God, This Is An Invitation: The Islamic State’s Dawa and Mosques Administration – Aaron Y. Zelin, Program on Extremism: https://bit.ly/34q1FqR

IS Khorasan, the US–Taliban Deal, and the Future of South Asian Security – Kabir Taneja, Observer Research Foundation: https://bit.ly/3alkmj6

Wednesday December 16:

Confronting the caliphate? Explaining civil resistance in jihadist proto-states – Isak Svensson and Daniel Finnbogason, European Journal of International Relations: https://bit.ly/34pEvAW

Thursday December 17:

Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators – Mohammed Ibrahim Shire, Journal of Eastern African Studies: https://bit.ly/2Kx8waJ

The Future of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan & Pakistan – Abdul Sayed, Center for Global Policy: https://bit.ly/3p5mEXA

Friday December 18:

Intersections of Extremisms: White Nationalist/Salafi-Jihadi Propaganda Overlaps and Essentialist Narratives about Muslims – Meili Criezis, Journal of Education in Muslim Societies: https://bit.ly/3aFnx5d

Monday December 7:

Characteristics of autism spectrum disorder and susceptibility to radicalisation among young people: a qualitative study – Florian Walter , Sarah Leonard, Suhel Miah, and Jenny Shaw, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology: https://bit.ly/3qNcAUT

The depiction of women in jihadi magazines: a comparative analysis of Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Taliban and Tahrik-e Taliban Pakistan – Weeda Mehran, Dominika Imiolek, Lucy Smeddle, and Jack Springett-Gilling, Small Wars & Insurgencies: https://bit.ly/3m8xElj

Risk assessment and management in violent extremism: a primer for mental health practitioners – Caroline Logan and Rachel Sellers, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology: https://bit.ly/2IEQNgV

Practical Ideology in Militant Organizations – Sarah E. Parkinson, World Politics: https://bit.ly/3gDIu1r

Tuesday December 8:

Procurement Networks Behind Islamic State Improvised Weapons Programmes – Conflict Armament Research: https://bit.ly/3qXsPyW

More attacks or more services? Insurgent groups’ behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia – Mohammed Ibrahim Shire, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/378TIb5

The Sudden Rise of Indian Tech Platforms: Are they Prepared for the Challenge of Online Extremism? – Kabir Taneja and Trisha Ray, GNET: https://bit.ly/343va1e

The Vienna Attack and Jihadi Networks in Austria – Johannes Saal, SCENOR: https://bit.ly/2W6tyiU

Wednesday December 9:

Praising Jihadist Attacks on TikTok and the Challenge of Protecting Youths From Online Extremism – Hugo Micheron, GNET: https://bit.ly/2Ltsp2X

Indonesia: Social Grievances and Violent Extremism – Moonshot CVE: https://bit.ly/3nfRhta

Thursday December 10:

Breaking the Glass Ceiling? Female Participation in Militant Organizations in Islamic State Affiliates in Southeast Asia – Amira Jadoon, Julia Maria Lodoen, Charmaine Noelle Willis, and Nakissa Puneh Jahanbani, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2W2bSoE

Ayman al-Zawahiri and the Challenges of Succession in Terrorist Organizations – Barak Mendelsohn, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2W1QtMt

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Understanding How British and Indonesian Extremists Disengage and Why They Don’t – Michael Kenney and Julie Chernov Hwang, Political Psychology: https://bit.ly/37vbm94

Friday December 11:

Al-Qaeda’s External Operations One Year After the Pensacola Attack – Matthew Levitt and Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/34qNXDR

Monday November 30:

Localism as Secrecy: Efficiency-Secrecy Tradeoffs in the Recruitment of ISIS Foreign Fighters – Nate Rosenblatt: https://bit.ly/2VBVevT

Tuesday December 1:

An Understanding of Social Violence: How Insurgents Use it as a Strategy of Control – Sanaullah Sanaullah, Civil Wars: https://bit.ly/3mHqyW0

The Puzzle of JNIM and Militant Islamist Groups in the Sahel – Daniel Eizenga and Wendy Williams, Africa Center for Strategic Studies: https://bit.ly/36DX7yj

The specter of hate and intolerance: sectarian-jihadi nexus and the persecution of Hazara Shia community in Pakistan – Shahid Ali, Contemporary South Asia: https://bit.ly/3lCy03r

Thursday December 3:

Islamic State Hind Province’s Kashmir Campaign and Pan-Indian Capabilities – Animesh Roul, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/39GKaWx

Friday December 4:

News values and human values in mediated terrorism: Photographic representations of the 2015 Beirut and Paris attacks by global news agencies – Michael Dokyum Kim, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/39WkjKq

Wednesday November 25:

What to Do About the Children of the Islamic State – Vera Mironova, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/3lcfluX

Friday November 27:

State Sponsorship of Religiously Motivated Terrorism: A Deadly Combination – Brittnee Carter, Maya Van Nuys, and Cagil Albayrak, Democracy and Security: https://bit.ly/3g81cy9

Sunday November 15:

When Terrorists Plotted a Texas Jailbreak and Other Stories We Almost Missed – Seamus Hughes, Bennett Clifford, and Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, The Daily Beast: https://bit.ly/36M65s8

Monday November 16:

Online Terrorist Content: Is it Time for an Independent Regulator? – Patrick Bishop and Stuart Macdonald, GNET: https://bit.ly/36SreRI

Tuesday November 17:

Analyzing Interviews with Terrorists – John F. Morrison, Resolve Network: https://bit.ly/36UduFT

Strategic communications: The Pakistan military’s use of social media against terrorism – Muhammad Khalil Khan and Cornelius B Pratt, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/3kNGYKA

Counter‐terrorism policies in the Middle East: Why democracy has failed to reduce terrorism in the Middle East and why protecting human rights might be more successful – Nancy A. Morris, Gary LaFree, and Eray Karlidag, Criminology and Public Policy: https://bit.ly/3kRSyV0

Wednesday November 18:

The End of the Sahelian Exception: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Clash in Central Mali – Edoardo Baldaro and Yida Seydou Diall, The International Spectator: https://bit.ly/3ffAHGB Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel: A Hybrid Political Order in the Making – Morten Bøås and Francesco Strazzari, The International Spectator: https://bit.ly/2UM2jte The Islamic State’s Global Insurgency and its Counterstrategy Implications – Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside, and Charlie Winter, ICCT: https://bit.ly/36NVltu Funding in Place: Local Financing Trends Behind Today’s Global Terrorist Threat – Katherine Bauer and Matthew Levitt, ICCT: https://bit.ly/2IXsavz Thursday November 19: The Truth Is Out There: The Prevalence of Conspiracy Theory Use by Radical Violent Extremist Organizations – Gregory J. Rousis, F. Dan Richard, and Dong-Yuan Debbie Wang, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/35NlQ2K Friday November 20: Outlasting the Caliphate: The Evolution of the Islamic State Threat in Africa – Jason Warner, Ryan O’Farrell, Héni Nsaibia, and Ryan Cummings, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/33pJil4 Al-Qaeda’s Leaders Are Dying, But a Greater Challenge Looms – Charles Lister, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/3o2rnZL

Sunday November 8:

Family Matters: A Preliminary Framework for Understanding Family Influence on Islamist Radicalization – Nicolò Scremin, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/3eY5hV6

Monday November 9:

Migration Moments: Extremist Adoption of Text-Based Instant Messaging Applications – Bennett Clifford, GNET: https://bit.ly/3lxcgqj

Tuesday November 10:

Illuminating terror: content analysis of official ISIS English-language videos from 2014 to 2017 – Yuanbo Qi, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/2UmyhvV

Thursday November 12:

Words and violence: militant Islamist attacks on bloggers in Bangladesh and the UK – Chetan Bhatt, Ethnic and Racial Studies: https://bit.ly/2UsyDRG

Friday November 13:

Baghdadi Fan Mail – Meili Criezis and Ayse Lokmanoglu, GNET: https://bit.ly/3lSwrz9

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

Monday October 26:

A Comparative Analysis of the Nature and Evolution of the Domestic Jihadist Threat to Australia and Canada (2000-2020) – Shandon Harris-Hogan, Lorne L. Dawson, and Amarnath Amarasingam, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/3moh4hP

The Barcelona and Cambrils Attacks: A Case Study of the Impact of Political: Decentralization and Separatism on Counter Terrorism Policing – Rogelio Alonso and Jesús Castán, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/2TB1Idh

ISIS in the North Caucasus – Nick Sturdee and Mairbek Vatchagaev, Center for Global Policy: https://bit.ly/35QdTsn

Tuesday October 27:

The consolidation of a (post-jihadi) technocratic state-let in Idlib – Jerome Drevon and Patrick Haenni, Project on Middle East Political Science: https://bit.ly/34LEzvr

Digital Dunes and Shrublands: A Comparative Introduction to the Sahelian Jihadi Propaganda Ecosystem – Héni Nsaibia and Rida Lyammouri, GNET: https://bit.ly/37RjbXr

Community perspectives of former terrorist combatants, militants and reintegration programmes in Nigeria: a systematic review – Tarela Juliet Ike, Danny Singh, Sean Murphy, Dung Ezekiel Jidong, Fran Porritt, and Evangelyn Ebi Ayobi, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/2TAgaSW

Wednesday October 28:

From bad to worse: The fate of European foreign fighters and families detained in Syria, one year after the Turkish offensive – Thomas Renard and Rik Coolsaet, Egmont: https://bit.ly/2TCXEt7

Shifting Gears: HTS’s Evolving Use of SVBIEDs During the Idlib Offensive of 2019-20 – Hugo Kaaman, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/3jFdON5

The Jihadist Fight for West Africa – Toulu Akerele, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/2TY12yO

Thursday October 29:

The “Central African” Jihad: Islamism and Nation-Building in Mozambique and Uganda – James Barnett, Current Trend in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/2TZDBFr

Friday October 30:

Ritual, Spectacle, and Menace: An Ancient Oath-Sacrifice and an IS “Message” Video – Margo Kitts, Journal of Religion and Violence: https://bit.ly/3e8TIdb

Monday October 19:

French Jihadism on the Internet: A Quantitative Overview – Antoine Jardin, GNET: https://bit.ly/3jhVNo4

Living with the Taleban (1): Local experiences in Andar district, Ghazni province – Sahil Afghan, Afghanistan Analysts Network: https://bit.ly/3oiKP5m

Tuesday October 20:

Severe Mental Disorder and Terrorism:When Psychosis, PTSD and Addictions Become a Vulnerability – Zainab Al-Attar, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology: https://bit.ly/3kn5MKc

Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality – Bettina Rottweiler and Paul Gill, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/34l97Ui

Afghanistan’s Terrorism Challenge: The Political Trajectories of al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, and the Islamic State – Asfandyar Mir, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/2Hv4gaD

The Wane of Command: Evidence on Drone Strikes and Control within Terrorist Organizations – Anouk S. Rigterink, American Political Science Review: https://bit.ly/3jnjfjG

Wednesday October 21:

Revisiting the Ecosystem of Islamic State’s ‘Virtual Caliphate’ – Michael Krona, GNET: https://bit.ly/3jpBSn2

Thursday October 22:

A Comparative Study of Initial Involvement in Gangs and Political Extremism Michael H. Becker, Scott H. Decker, Gary LaFree, David C. Pyrooz, Kyle Ernest, and Patrick A. James, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/35q5DiS

Explaining the Rise of Jihadism in Africa: The Crucial Case of the Islamic State of the Greater Sahara – Luca Raineri, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/37zhL3v

Jihadi Insurgency in Mozambique Grows in Sophistication and Reach – Tim Lister, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/31CFhsH

Sunday October 11:

The Caliph of Lisson Green – Tam Hussein, Newlines Magazine: https://bit.ly/2T00Ajb

Monday October 12:

‘Does peacekeeping deter terrorism?’ – Anna Kruglova, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: https://bit.ly/3iYLDbK

Autism spectrum disorders and terrorism: how different features of autism can contextualise vulnerability and resilience – Zainab Al-Attar, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology: https://bit.ly/3550dJN

Wednesday October 14:

What Do We Learn About the CMA and JNIM from the Negotiations over Soumaïla Cissé? Part Two – JNIM – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/2T2B0u1

Fear without Prejudice in the Shadow of Jihadist Threat – Marco Giani, Comparative Political Studies: https://bit.ly/3lQJpNs

Thursday October 15:

Desert Drift, Declining Deadliness: Understanding the Evolution of AQIM’s Suicide Bombings – Jason Warner, Ellen Chapin, Caleb Weiss, Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/2T1NMZy

Friday October 16:

Jihadi Media and Online Secrecy as Doctrinal Values – El Mostafa Rezrazi, GNET: https://bit.ly/3mfOi2W