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Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part VI

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Freedom C. Onuoha — Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan: Nigeria’s Evolving Terrorist Group
Freedom Onuoha — Porous Borders & Boko Haram’s Arms Smuggling Operations in Nigeria
Freedom C. Onuoha and Dr. Gerald E. Ezirim — “Terrorism” and Transnational Organised Crime in West Africa
Geneive Abdo — Lebanese Salafis Amidst Syria’s War
Gregory Johnsen — Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America?
Hazim Fouad — Salafi-Jihadists and non-jihadist Salafists in Egypt – A case study about politics and methodology (manhaj)
Ines Von Behr, Anaïs Reding, Charlie Edwards, and Luke Gribbon — Radicalisation in the digital era: The use of the internet in 15 cases of terrorism and extremism
J.M. Berger — #Unfollow: The case for kicking terrorists off Twitter
J.M. Berger — Boston’s Jihadist Past
J.M. Berger — Dear jihadis: A letter from J.M.
J.M. Berger — Inspiration Inflation
J.M. Berger — Omar and Me: My strange, frustrating relationship with an American terrorist
J.M. Berger — Terrorists on Social Media: Arguments That Don’t Impress Me
J.M. Berger — Zero Degrees of al Qaeda: How Twitter is super-charging jihadist recruitment
Jacob N. Shapiro — The Business Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists
Jacob Zenn — A Brief Look at Ansaru’s Khalid al-Barnawi – AQIM’s Bridge Into Northern Nigeria
Jacob Zenn — Boko Haram’s Evolving Tactics and Alliances in Nigeria
Jacob Zenn — Boko Haram’s International Connections
Jacob Zenn — Cooperation or Competition: Boko Haram and Ansaru After the Mali Intervention
Jacob Zenn — Increasing Numbers of Central Asian Jihadists in Syria
Jacob Zenn — On the Eve of 2014: Islamism in Central Asia
Jacob Zenn — The Growing Alliance between Uzbek Extremists and the Pakistani Taliban

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part V

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Cole Bunzel — Al-Qaeda Advises the Syrian Revolution: Shumukh al-Islam’s “Comprehensive Strategy” for Syria
Cole Bunzel — Are the Jihadi Forums Flagging? An Ideologue’s Lament
Cole Bunzel — Caliphate Now: Jihadis Debate the Islamic State
Cole Bunzel — Introducing the “Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria”
Cole Bunzel — Jihadism’s Widening Internal Divide: Intellectual Infighting Heats Up
Cole Bunzel — Stealth Takfir: The Discreet Excommunication of Muhammad Morsi
Cole Bunzel — The Islamic State of Disobedience: al-Baghdadi Triumphant
Cole Bunzel — Toward an Islamic Spring: Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi’s Prison Production
Dan Byman — The Dangers of Success: Why it’s not so simple to crush and kill al Qaeda affiliates
Dan Byman and Benjamin Wittes — Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross — al-Qaeda’s Influencial Online Strategist: Abu Sa’id al-Amili
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross — Ansar al-Sharia Tunisia’s Long Game: Dawa, Hisba and Jihad, International Centre for Counterterrorism
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross — Is the Terrorist Threat Declining? The Use and Abuse of Statistics
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross — The Cuban in the Desert
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Aaron Y. Zelin — Uncharitable Organizations
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Bridget Moreng — Al-Qaeda’s Offensive Against Iraq’s Sahwa
David Cook — Boko Haram: Reversals and Retrenchment
Ed Husain — A Global Venture to Counter Violent Extremism
Elizabeth Dickinson — Playing with Fire- Why Private Gulf Financing for Syria’s Extremist Rebels Risks Igniting Sectarian Conflict at Home
Fabio Merone — Salafism in Tunisia: An Interview with a Member of Ansar al-Sharia

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part IV

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Barak Barfi and Aaron Y. Zelin — Al Qaeda’s Syrian Strategy Bart Schuurman and Quirine Eijkman — Moving Terrorism Research Forward: The Crucial Role of Primary Sources Bilal Y. Saab — The Syrian Spillover and Salafist Radicalization in Lebanon Borhan Osman — Is the Taleban Insurgency a Holy or an Unholy War? An Afghan-Pakistani ulema debate Brian Fishman — Syria Proving More Fertile Than Iraq to Al-Qa`ida’s Operations
Bruce Hoffman and Fernando Reinares — Al-Qaeda’s continued core strategy and disquieting leader-led trajectory Charles Kurzman — Muslim-American Terrorism: Declining Further Charles Lister — A militant Islamist/jihadi nexus is emerging in northern & eastern Syria Charles Lister — Jabhat al-Nusra: A Self-Professed AQ Affiliate Charles Lister — New fears for Syria’s jihadists Charles Lister — Syria’s Insurgency: Beyond Good Guys and Bad Guys Christopher Anzalone — Al-Shabab’s Tactical and Media Strategies in the Wake of its Battlefield Setbacks Christopher Anzalone — The militant web Christopher Anzalone — The Nairobi Attack and Al-Shabab’s Media Strategy Christopher Heffelfinger — The Risks Posed by Jihadist Hackers Claude Berrebi and Jordan Ostwald — Terrorism and the Labor- Force Evidence of an Effect on Female Labor Force Participation and the Labor Gender Gap Claudio Franco — The evolving Taleban: changes in the insurgency’s DNA Clint Watts — Foreign Fighters and Ants: How they form their colonies Clint Watts — Syria: Suffering the effects of the 2nd Foreign Fighter Glut Clint Watts — The Three Versions of Al Qaeda: A Primer

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part III

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Anne Wolf — The Salafist Temptation: The Radicalization of Tunisia’s Post-Revolution Youth
Anne Wolf — Tunisia: Signs of Domestic Radicalization Post-Revolution
Antonio Giustozzi and Claudio Franco — The Ongoing Battle for Education; Uprisings, Negotiations and Taleban Tactics
Aron Lund — Syria’s Salafi Insurgents: Rise of the Syrian Islamic Front
Aylin Uver Noi — A Clash of Islamic Models

Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part II

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Jihadology presents Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2013, Part I

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Aaron Y. Zelin — #Jihad’s social media trend

Aaron Y. Zelin — Al-Qaeda Announces an Islamic State in Syria

Aaron Y. Zelin — Al-Qaeda in Syria: A Closer Look at ISIS (Part I)

Aaron Y. Zelin — Al-Qaeda in Syria: A Closer Look at ISIS (Part II)

Aaron Y. Zelin — Deciphering the Jihadist Presence in Syria: An Analysis of Martyrdom Notices

Aaron Y. Zelin — European Foreign Fighters in Syria

Aaron Y. Zelin — Foreign Jihadists in Syria: Tracking Recruitment Networks

Aaron Y. Zelin — Islamism in Libya

Aaron Y. Zelin — Jihad 2020: Assessing Al-Qaida’s 20-Year Plan

Aaron Y. Zelin — Jihadists on the Nile: The Return of Old Players

Aaron Y. Zelin — Jihadist Reactions in the Event of an Israeli War with Hezbollah or Assad

Aaron Y. Zelin — Libya’s jihadists beyond Benghazi

Aaron Y. Zelin — Meeting a Returned Tunisian Foreign Fighter from the Syrian Front

Aaron Y. Zelin — Meeting Tunisia’s Ansar al-Sharia

Aaron Y. Zelin — Muhammad al-Zawahiri: Leader of the Salafi-Jihadi Revival in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Aaron Y. Zelin — Rebels Consolidating Strength in Syria: The Islamic Front

Aaron Y. Zelin — Standoff Between the Tunisian Government and Ansar al-Sharia

Aaron Y. Zelin — The State of Global Jihad Online: A Qualitative, Quantitative, and Cross-Lingual Analysis

Aaron Y. Zelin — The Syrian Islamic Front: A New Salafi Force

Aaron Y. Zelin — Tunisia: Uncovering Ansar al-Sharia

Aaron Y. Zelin — Tunis Designates Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia

Aaron Y. Zelin — Up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria; steep rise among Western Europeans

Aaron Y. Zelin — Who is Tunisia’s Salafi Cleric Shaykh al-Khatib al-Idrissi?

Aaron Y. Zelin — Who’s Who in Tunisia’s Salafi-Jihadi Community

Aaron Y. Zelin and Charles Lister — The crowning of the Syrian Islamic Front

Aaron Y. Zelin, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, and Andrew Lebovich — Al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb’s Tunisia Strategy

Aaron Y. Zelin, Evan F. Kohlmann, and Laith al-Khouri — Convoy of Martyrs in the Levant: A Joint Study Charting the Evolving Role of Sunni Foreign Fighters in the Armed Uprising Against the Assad Regime in Syria

Alex P. Schmid — Radicalisation, De-Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation: A Conceptual Discussion & Literature Review, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

Alex Thurston — Boko Haram: What’s in a Name?

Alex Thurston and Andrew Lebovich — A Handbook on Mali’s 2012-2013 Crisis

Jihadology presents Academic Journal Articles of 2013, Part IV

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Kathleen Deloughery — Simultaneous Attacks by Terrorist Organisations
Khalil al-Anani and Maszlee Malik — Pious Way to Politics: The Rise of Political Salafism in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Khuram Iqbal and Sara De Silva — Terrorist lifecycles: a case study of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan
M.W. Zackie — An Analysis of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri’s “Call to Global Islamic Resistance”
Manuel Cebrian, Manuel R. Torres, Ramon Huerta, and James H. Fowler — Violent extremist group ecologies under stress
Marcus Schulzke — Being a terrorist: Video game simulations of the other side of the War on Terror
Marie Breen-Smyth — Theorising the “suspect community”: counterterrorism, security practices and the public imagination
Mark Woodward, Muhammad Sani Umar, Inayah Rohmaniyah, and Mariani Yahya — Salafi Violence and Sufi Tolerance? Rethinking Conventional Wisdom
Martijn de Koning — The moral maze: Dutch Salafis and the construction of a moral community of the faithful
Martin Rudner — Al Qaeda’s Twenty-Year Strategic Plan: The Current Phase of Global Terror
Mary Beth Altier, John Horgan, and Christian Thoroughgood — In Their Own Words? Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Terrorist Autobiographies
Matthias Kortmann and Kerstin Rosenow-Williams — Islamic Umbrella Organizations and Contemporary Political Discourse on Islam in Germany
Matthew Feldman — Comparative Lone Wolf Terrorism: Toward a Heuristic Definition
Megan Smith and James Igoe Walsh — Do Drone Strikes Degrade Al Qaeda? Evidence From Propaganda Output
Mohammed Ilyas — Islamist groups in the UK and recruitment
Mohammad Shehzad — The State of Islamic Radicalism in Pakistan
Monica Marks — Youth Politics and Tunisian Salafism- Understanding the Jihadi Current
Moran Yarchi, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer, and Shaul R Shenhav — Promoting stories about terrorism to the international news media: A study of public diplomacy
Muniba Saleem and Craig A. Anderson — Arabs as terrorists- Effects of stereotypes within violent contexts on attitudes, perceptions, and affect
Nazek Jawad — Democracy in Modern Islamic Thought

Jihadology presents Academic Journal Articles of 2013, Part II

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Christian Leuprecht, Todd Hataley, and David B. Skillicorn — Cross-border terror networks- a social network analysis of the Canada–US border
Christopher Jasparro — Place still matters: The operational geography of jihadist terror attacks against the US Homeland 1990–2012
Christoph Schuck, Politics — A Conceptual Framework of Sunni Islamism
Clark McCauley, Sophia Moskalenko, and Benjamin Van Son — Characteristics of Lone-Wolf Violent Offenders: a Comparison of Assassins and School Attackers

Corinne Torrekens — Mosques and Municipalities in Belgium: Negotiating Urban Spaces
Dan Byman — Fighting Salafi-Jihadist Insurgencies: How Much Does Religion Really Matter?
Dan Byman — Outside Support for Insurgent Movements
Daniel Egiegba Agbiboa — Living in Fear: Religious Identity, Relative Deprivation and the Boko Haram Terrorism
Daniel Meierrieks and Thomas Gries — Causality between terrorism and economic growth
Degang Sun and Yahia Zoubir — China’s Response to the Revolts in the Arab World: A Case of Pragmatic Diplomacy
Dina Al Raffie — Social Identity Theory for Investigating Islamic Extremism in the Diaspora
Donald Holbrook — Alienating the Grassroots: Looking Back at Al Qaeda’s Communicative Approach Toward Muslim Audiences
Donna Winslow, Rene Moelker, and Francoise Companjen — Glocal Chechnya from Russian sovereignty to pan-Islamic autonomy
Eitan Azani — The Hybrid Terrorist Organization- Hezbollah as a Case Study
Elena Pokalova — Authoritarian regimes against terrorism- lessons from China
Emmanuel Karagiannis — Transnational Islamist Networks: Western Fighters in Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria
Emilia Justyna Powell — Islamic law states and the International Court of Justice
Emil Souleimanov and Maya Ehrmann — Rise of Militant Salafism in Azerbaijan & Its Regional Implications
Farhad Khosrokhavar — Radicalization in Prison: The French Case
Floris Vermeulen — Suspect Communities—Targeting Violent Extremism at the Local Level: Policies of Engagement in Amsterdam, Berlin, and London

Jihadology presents Academic Journal Articles of 2013, Part I

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

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Abdulmalik Mohammad Abdullah Eissa — Islamist political movements in Yemen
Ahmet Yükleyen and Aziz Abba — Religious Authorization of the Justice and Spirituality Movement in Morocco
Alessandro Orsini — A Day Among the Diehard Terrorists: The Psychological Costs of Doing Ethnographic Research
Andrew Zammit — Explaining a Turning Point in Australian Jihadism
Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen — Promoting Exit from Violent Extremism: Themes and Approaches
Anne Stenersen — ‘Bomb-Making for Beginners’: Inside al Al-Qaeda E-Learning Course
Anne Wolf — An Islamist ‘renaissance’? Religion & politics in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Arjun Chowdhury and Scott Fitzsimmons — Effective but inefficient: understanding the costs of counterterrorism
Assaf Moghadam — How Al Qaeda Innovates
Audrey Kurth Cronin — The ‘War on Terrorism’: What Does it Mean to Win?
Benjamin Acosta and Steven J. Childs — Illuminating the Global Suicide-Attack Network
Benjamin S. Eveslage — Clarifying Boko Haram’s Transnational Intentions, Using Content Analysis of Public Statements in 2012
Benjamin W. Bahney, Radha K. Iyengar, Patrick B. Johnston, Danielle F. Jung, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Howard J. Shatz — Insurgent Compensation: Evidence from Iraq
Beverley Milton-Edwards — Islamist Versus Islamist: Rising Challenge in Gaza
Boaz Ganor and Ophir Falk — De-Radicalization in Israel’s Prison System
Brian J. Bowe — The Heartbreak of the Place- Space, Religion and Politics in Post-9/11 Mosque Controversies
Bridget Rose Nolan — The Effects of Cleric Statements on Suicide Bombings in Pakistan, 2000–2010
C. Christine Fair — Insights from a Database of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Militants
Charlinda Santifort-Jordan and Todd Sandler — An Empirical Study of Suicide Terrorism: A Global Analysis
Chen Brama and Moshe Gammer — Radical Islamism, Traditional Islam and Ethno-Nationalism in the Northern Caucasus

Jihadology presents the Books of 2013

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Aaron Y. Zelin

NOTE: As with 2010, 2011, and 2012 over the next few days Jihadology will be posting lists of books, think tank reports, academic journal articles, and forthcoming books that have been published during 2011 and plan to be published in 2012. Below is a list of books that I have either read or am interested in reading that were published in the past year. They are in alphabetical order by author. If you have any other suggestions to the below books that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section.
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David Malet — Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts
Edwin Bakker and Roel Meijer — Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
Guido W. Steinberg — German Jihad: On the Internationalization of Islamist Terrorism
Housam Najjair — Soldier for a Summer
Jacob N. Shapiro — The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Matthew Levitt — Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
Michael W. S. Ryan — Decoding Al-Qaeda’s Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America

R|diger Lohlker — Jihadism: Online Discourses and Representations
Zoltan Pall — Lebanese Salafis between the Gulf and Europe: Development, Fractionalization and Transnational Networks of Salafism in Lebanon

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