Category: Lists

NOTE: This is the last post in my end of the year series. Previous posts in end of the years series:

• Books
• Academic Journal Articles
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles, Part I
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2010, Part II
  
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2010, Part III
  
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2010, Part IV

Below is a list of books I am looking forward to reading in 2011. Dates of publication are based on information on Amazon.com. If you have any other suggestions to the below reports and articles that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section.
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Assaf Moghadam and Brian Fishman (ed.) — Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic and Ideological Fissures (7/12/11)
Camille Tawil — Brothers In Arms: The Story of al-Qa’ida and the Arab Jihadists (4/1/11)
Fawaz A. Gerges — The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda (9/1/11)
Jean-Pierre Filiu — Apocalypse in Islam (1/10/11)
Jeevan Deol and, Zaheer Kazmi (ed.) — Contextualising Jihadi Thought (6/1/11)
J.M. Berger — Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam (4/30/11)
Khaled Hroub — Political Islam: Context Versus Ideology (6/1/11)
Laurent Bonnefoy — Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalis​m and Religious Identity (5/31/11 in the UK)

Michael Scheuer — Osama Bin Laden (2/15/11)
Peter Bergen — The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda (1/11/11)
Stéphane Lacroix — Awakening Islam: Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (4/15/11)
The World Almanac of Islamism (2/16/11)

NOTE: Previous posts in end of the years series:

• Books
• Academic Journal Articles
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles, Part I
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2010, Part II
  
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2010, Part III
  

Monday I will post books I am looking forward to reading 2011. Below is a list of Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov reports and articles that I have either read or am interested in reading that were published in the past year. If you have any other suggestions to the below reports and articles that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section.
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Sarah Phillips — What Comes Next in Yemen? AQ, the Tribes, and State-Building
Somalia’s Divided Islamists

Stephen Harmon — From GSPC to AQIM- The evolution of an Algerian islamistterrorist group into an Al-Qa‘ida Affiliate and its implications for the Sahara-Sahel region
Stephen Tankel — Lashkar-e-Taiba in Perspective- An Evolving Threat
Stephen Ulph — Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology PartI- Introduction – Problems of Perception
Stephen Ulph — Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology PartII- The Doctrinal Frame
Stephen Ulph — Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology PartIII- The World Through a Jihadi Lens
The De-Radicalization Process of Terrorist Organizations- The Libyan Case
The Threat from Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh

Thomas Hegghammer — The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia

Thomas Rid — Cracks in the Jihad
Thomas Ruttig — How Tribal Are the Taleban? Afghanistan’s Largest Insurgent Movement between its Tribal Roots and Islamist Ideology
Tuty Raihanah Mostarom and Nur Azlin Mohamed Yasin — The Internet- Avenue for Women Jihadi “Participation”
Youssef Aboul-Enein — Reflections on Algeria’s Islamist Experiences, Past and Present
Youssef Aboul-Enein & Dorothy Corley — Yemeni Intellectual Saeed al-JamhiIdeologically Attacks al-Qaida- Exploring Recent Arabic Volumes Deconstructing Militant Islamist Narrative

NOTE: Previous posts in end of the years series:

• Books
• Academic Journal Articles
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles, Part I
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles of 2010, Part II
  

Tomorrow I will post part IV of this list. Below is a list of Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov reports and articles that I have either read or am interested in reading that were published in the past year. If you have any other suggestions to the below reports and articles that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section.
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Leah Farrall — Evolution of AQ’s Command
Local jihadist networks in the Netherlands An evolving threat
Lorenzo Vidino — Countering Radicalization in America- Lessons from Europe
Malcolm Nance — The Strait of Hormuz- al-Qaeda’s Newest Jihad Zone?

Michael Taarnby & Lars Hallundbaek — Al-Shabaab The Internationalization of Militant Islamism in Somalia and the Implications for Radicalisation Processes in Europe
Mohammed Ali Musawi — Cheering for Osama- How jihadists use internet discussion forums

Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
Noman Benotman — Letter to bin Laden
Northern Nigeria – Background to Conflict

Olivier Walther & Denis Retille — Sahara or Sahel? The fuzzy geography of terrorism in West Africa

Paul Cruickshank — The Militant Pipeline Between the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Region and the West

Peter Bergen & Bruce Hoffman — Assessing the Terrorist Threat 2010
Prisons and Terrorism Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in 15 Countries

Rebecca Winthrop and Corinne Graff — Beyond Madrasas- Assessing the Links Between Education and Militancy in Pakistan
Self-Inflicted Wounds Debates and Divisions within al-Qa’ida and its Periphery

NOTE: Previous posts in end of the years series:

• Books
• Academic Journal Articles
• Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov Reports and Articles, Part I

Tomorrow I will post part III of this list. Below is a list of Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov reports and articles that I have either read or am interested in reading that were published in the past year. If you have any other suggestions to the below reports and articles that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section.
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Colonel John M. ”Matt” Venhaus — Why Youth Join al-Qaeda
Daniel Kimmage — Al-Qaeda Central and the Internet
Deradicalization- A Review of the Literature with Comparison to   Findings in the Literatures on Deganging and Deprogramming
Deterred but Determined Salafi-Jihadi Groups in the Palestinian Arena

Engaging Religious Communities Abroad- A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy
Frank J. Cilluffo, Jeffrey B. Cozzens, and Magnus Ranstorp — Foreign Fighters-Trends, Trajectories & Conflict Zones

From the Ferghana Valley to South Waziristan- The Evolving Threat of Central Asian Jihadists
Gilles Kepel — French Lessons in Londonistan
Hassan Abbas — Militancy in Pakistan’s Borderlands- Implications for the Nation and for Afghan Policy
Indonesia- Jihadi Surprise in Aceh
Indonesia- The Dark Side of Jama’ ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)
James Igoe Wals — Media Attention to Terrorist Attacks- Causes and Consequences
Jean-Pierre Filiu — Could Al-Qaeda Turn African in the Sahel?
John Ty Grubb — Constructing the Revolution- The Social Psychological Development of Radical Spiritual Leaders
Kirk H. Sowell — Promoting Jihad Against China- The Turkistani Islamic Party in Arabic Jihadist Media
Lauren Ploch — Countering Terrorism in East Africa- The U.S. Response

NOTE: Yesterday I posted my list of academic journal articles of 2010, which you can see here and this past Friday I posted my list of books of 2010 here. Since there are a lot of useful reports for researchers, students, and others I decided to break this list up into four parts so it wouldn’t be too overwhelming as one post. Tomorrow I will post part II of this list. Below is a list of Think Tank/NGO/Policy/Gov reports and articles that I have either read or am interested in reading that were published in the past year. If you have any other suggestions to the below reports and articles that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section.
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Alex Thurston — Counterterrorism and democracy promotion in the Sahel under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from September 11, 2001, to the Nigerien Coup of February 2010
Al Qaeda and Affiliates- Historical Perspective, Global Presence, and Implications for U.S. Policy

Alistair Harris — Exploiting Grievances Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
American Jihadist Terrorism- Combating a Complex Threat

Amr Hamzawy & Sarah Grebowski — From Violence to Moderation- Al-Jama‘a al-Islamiya and al-Jihad
An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq
Angel Rabasa, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Jeremy J. Ghez, and Christopher Boucek — Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists

Anne Stenersen — Al-Qaeda’s Allies- Explaining the Relationship Between Al-Qaeda and Taliban Factions After 2001
Antonio Giustozzi — Negotiating With the Taliban- Issues and Prospects (Added at the suggestion of Neil Bhatiya)
Barbara Sude — Al-Qaeda Central- An Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Terrorist Group Headquartered on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
Brian Michael Jenkins — Would-Be Warriors Incidents of Jihadist Terrorist Radicalization in the United States Since September 11, 2001

Bronwyn E. Bruton — Somalia A New Approach
Building on Clues- Examining Successes and Failures in Detecting U.S. Terrorist Plots, 1999-2009
C. Nna-Emeka Okereke — AQIM and the Question of Security in West Africa
Camille Tawil — The Other Face of Al-Qaeda

Catherine Zara Raymond — Al Muhajiroun and Islam4UK- The group behind the ban
Chris Harnisch — The Terror Threat From Somalia- The Internationalization of al Shabaab

NOTE: Friday I posted my list of Books of 2010, which you can see here. Tomorrow I will post a list of think tank reports/articles of 2010. Below is a list of academic journal articles that I have either read or am interested in reading that were published in the past year. They are in alphabetical order by authors first name. If you have any other suggestions to the below articles that deal with global jihadism or Islamic studies, please feel free to let me know in the comments section. If you are not at an institution where you can retrieve one of these articles since they are behind pay walls, email me and I can send you a copy of the article(s).
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Adam Klein — The End of Al Qaeda? Rethinking the Legal End of the War on Terror
Andrew F. March — Taking People As They Are- Islam As a “Realistic Utopia” in the Political Theory of Sayyid Qutb
Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen — Violent Radicalization in Europe- What We Know and What We Do Not Know
Degang Sun — China and the Global Jihad Network
Gillian S. Oak — Jemaah Islamiyah’s Fifth Phase- The Many Faces of a Terrorist Group
Heather S. Gregg — Fighting the Jihad of the Pen- Countering Revolutionary Islam’s Ideology
John Turner — From Cottage Industry to International Organization- The Evolution of Salafi-Jihadism and the Emergence of the al Qaeda Ideology
Lorenzo Vidino, Raffaello Pantucci, & Evan Kohlmann — Bringing Global Jihad to the Horn of Africa- al Shabaab, Western Fighters, and the Sacralization of the Somali Conflict
Marc Lynch — Islam Divided Between Salafi-jihad and the Ikhwan
Michael Kenney — “Dumb” Yet Deadly- local Knowledge and Poor Tradecraft Among Islamist Militants in Britain and Spain
Ramon Spaaij — The Enigma of Lone Wolf Terrorism- An Assessment
Rohan Gunaratna & Aviv Oreg — Al Qaeda’s Organizational Structure and its Evolution
Ryan Clarke — Lashkar-i-Taiba- Roots, Logistics, Parternships, and the Fallacy of Subservient Proxies
Simon Cottee — Mind Slaughter- The Neutralizations of Jihadi Salafism
Simon Haddad — Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon- Anatomy of a Terrorist Organization

NOTE: Over the next few days I am going to be posting lists of books, think tank reports, academic journal articles, and key jihadist works that have been published during 2010. 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 title. 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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Global Terrorism and New Media: The Post-Al Qaeda Generation by Philip Seib and Dana M. Janbek
Ibn Taymiyya and his Times edited by Yossef Rapoport and Shahab Ahmed
Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979 by Thomas Hegghammer
Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic state by Roy Jackson
Militant Islamist Ideology by Youssef H. Aboul-Enein
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam by Fred Donner
My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union by Galina M. Yemelianova
Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism edited by Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert
The ETIM: China’s Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat by J. Todd Reed and Diana Raschke
The Jihadis’ Path to Self-destruction by Nelly Lahoud
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier by Imtiaz Gul
Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet by Yaakov Lappin