Terrorism and Political Violence

Papers
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Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits52
The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence47
The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda36
The Mathematics of Political Mayhem: A Computational Model for Predicting Stochastic Violence29
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks23
Exploring the Religious Dimensions of American Far-Right Extremist Discourse22
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups19
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing18
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows18
Selective Visibility: How Newsworthiness Shapes Unattributed Violence Across Terrorist Tactics in Open-Source Data17
The Pathway Model of Radicalization 2.0: Empirical Insights into the Religiously Motivated, Right-Wing and Left-Wing Radicalization Process16
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults16
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles16
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA13
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism13
Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program12
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review12
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan10
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology10
From Waves to Questions: How David Rapoport Shaped My Thinking as a Practitioner & Research as a Scholar10
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups10
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words9
Countering ISIS Finances: A New Paradigm of Success9
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors9
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization9
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses8
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace8
The Word and the Bullet: Out-Grouping and Threat Framing as Predictors of Islamic State Targeting, 2015–20208
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-20208
From Theory to Policy: The Four Waves and U.S. Counterterrorism7
Belief and Behavior in Radicalization: Clarifying the Link in Response to Peels7
The Aftermath: Societal and Political Responses to Jihadist Terrorism7
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In7
A Conversation with Professor Max Taylor7
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Looking at the Current Milieu Through Rapoport’s Four Waves Theory of Modern Terrorism7
The Crime-Terrorism Nexus and Jihadist Radicalization in the West: New Data and Interpretative Challenges7
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research7
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–20167
Mapping the Waves of Terrorism Using Computational Text Analysis7
Innovation and Organisational Survival in Terrorist Groups: Evidence from the PKK6
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan6
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq6
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Legacy of David C. Rapoport6
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives6
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants5
Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence5
Religious Political Violence in Early 19th Century America5
Correction5
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism5
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)5
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks5
Religious Redemption as the Motivation for the Jihadist Crime-Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Inquiry4
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus4
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism4
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern4
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates4
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences4
What Is Deradicalization? Translating Security Practices in the Maghreb and the Sahel4
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War4
Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization , by Simon Cottee, New York, NY, Routledge, 2022, 156 pp., 3
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine3
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison3
Targeting Taxonomy and Patterns of Political Violence in Stable Societies: Evidence from the Far Right in Italy3
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression3
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims3
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups3
PTSD and Coping Strategies Among Palestinian University Students During Political Violence: A Cross Sectional Study3
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists3
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy3
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process2
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling2
Seeing through Troubled Water: Proposing a Narrow Focus on Behavioral Warning Signals for the Prevention of Terrorist Violence2
Countering Counterterrorism: The Impact of Citizenship Revocation on National Security2
A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Stern2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror2
Drone Activity and Cyber Terrorism Cyber Enigma: Unravelling the Terror in the Cyber World , by E. Dilipraj, New York, NY Routledge, 2019, 262 pp., $155.00 (hardcover), 2
Sympathy for ISIS Among Political Islamists: The Moderating Role of Institutional Trust2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem2
Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia2
Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence: How Internal Brakes Limited Violent Escalation from the Provisional IRA in Pre- and Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety2
Riding the Waves: Reimagining Rapoport’s Thesis with Stochastic Terrorist Actors2
Islam, State, and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis2
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Anti-Government Extremism: Mitigating the Threat with Procedurally Just Governance2
Why They Fight: Ideology and Terrorist Motivation2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data2
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence2
David Rapoport Tribute2
Psychological Dynamics of Terrorism: Insights from Individuals Exposed to Extremist Activities Embedded in Conflict-Prone Environments2
A Tale of Terror: Autoethnography and the Study of Terrorism1
Stop Cop City!—Understanding the Strategic Choices of Protest Movements1
Islamic State in Australia1
The Impact of Public Holidays on Insurgent Attacks: The Case of Thailand1
Support for Partisan Violence among the Political Fringe: The Case of Antifa and QAnon Supporters1
Missing the Spoiler: Israel’s Policy with Regard to Hamas during the Oslo Talks and the First Stages of the Implementation of the Oslo Accords1
Internal Brakes on Political Violence: A Case Study of Dissident Irish Republicanism1
A Conversation with Professor Martha Crenshaw1
Before Boko Haram: Islamic Fundamentalism and Violence in Northern Nigeria1
Moving into Terrorism: How Climate-Induced Rural-Urban Migration May Increase the Risk of Terrorism1
Terrorized by Immigration? Threat Perceptions and Policy Preferences1
‘Playing the System’: Agency and Everyday Negotiations during LTTE Rule1
Taming the Beast: Democratic Institutions and Terrorist Groups’ Involvement in Civil War1
Disengaged but Still Radical? Pathways Out of Violent Right-Wing Extremism1
In Memory of David C. Rapoport1
Studies on Islamic Extremism and Deradicalization in the Middle East1
The Impact of Policy (Il)Legitimacy on Interagency Collaboration and Trust: Differential Impact on CVE Professionals in Denmark1
Older and Wiser: How Terrorist Leaders’ Tenure Influences Tactical Decisions1
Extreme Belief and Extreme Behavior in Context: A Response to James Khalil1
Dying for Sex? Sexual Frustration, Socioeconomic Factors and ISIS Foreign Fighters1
Notes from the Underground: Profiles and Mobilization Dynamics of Pro-Russia Western Fighters in the Donbas—Insights from Italy1
Resisting Terror Civil Action and Non-Violent Resistance to Terrorism in Basque Country1
How They Join: Lessons from Examining Radicalisation and Recruitment Patterns in Kashmir1
How Much Bang for the Buck? Exploring the Effects of Ransom Payments on Terrorist Activity in West Africa1
White Jihad: How White Supremacists Adopt Jihadi Narratives, Aesthetics, and Tactics1
“White Jihad” and “White Sharia”: Jihadism as an Instrument of Intra-Extremist Outbidding among Right-Wing Extremists1
From Local to Regional Spoiler: Hamas as a Case Study of a Multi-Dimensional Spoiler1
Firm Convictions?: Unpicking Framings of Child Terrorism Offenders1
“Freedom Fighters:” Motivations of Western Volunteers to Fight on the Side of Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-20221
Life Difficulties, Violent Online Extremism and Support for Political Violence in the United States1
Gaming and Extremism. The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds1
Exploring the Relationship between Opportunity and Self-Control in Youth Exposure to and Sharing of Online Hate Content1
Coherence and Performance: European External Action Service and the External Dimension of EU Counterterrorism Policy1
From Extreme Ideas to Violent and Nonviolent Outcomes: An In-Depth Analysis of Probation Files on Terrorist Suspects in the Netherlands1
Typology of Terrorist Profiling Using Centrality Metrics: Hinge Figures, Influential Operatives and Trusted Assets1
The Evolution of Transnational Jihad: Identities, Grievances, and Legitimacy Crisis in Arab States1
The Extreme Right, Climate Change and Terrorism1
Support for Political Violence among the American Public: A Split-ballot Experiment1
Citizens, Extremists, Terrorists: Comparing Radicalized Individuals with the General Population1
Ethical Violence1
Combating the Terrorist Stigma: Communicating Rehabilitation and Reducing Barriers to Reintegration1
A Conversation with William Braniff1
Before the Waves: The Pioneering Early Work of David C. Rapoport1
Crowdsourcing Samples for Research on Violent Extremism: A Research Note1
Christian Nationalism as a Social Practice: Prayer, Violence, and the Politics of Public Ritual0
What Is It to Explain Extremism?0
Do Blasphemy Restrictions Restrict Terrorism?0
Hero or Zero? Meta-Opinion in Terrorist Motivation0
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: A Rapid Review to Inform Program and Policy Development0
Why I Want to Join the Base: Examining Individual-level Motivational Factors in Recruiting Interviews0
Who Becomes a Foreign Fighter? Characteristics of the Islamic State’s Soldiers0
Bayesian Inferences for Counterterrorism Policy: A Retrospective Case Study of the U.S. War in Afghanistan0
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo: Variations in Civilian Targeting by Militant Groups0
Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space0
Religion, Extremism and Violence in South Asia Religion, Extremism and Violence in South Asia , by I. Ahmed, Z. S. Ahmed, H. Brasted, and S. Akbarzadeh, Singapore, Sprin0
A Common Psychology of Male Violence? Assessing the Effects of Misogyny on Intentions to Engage in Violent Extremism, Interpersonal Violence and Support for Violence against Women0
Investigating the Role of Morality in Lone-Actor Terrorist Motivations and Attack Severity0
Fighting Terror After Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure After 18150
Ripeness Theory and the Northern Ireland Conflict: The Importance of Providing Militants with a Viable “Exit Strategy”0
The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization0
Name, Shame, and Blame: Terrorist Designation and Peace Negotiations0
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs with Violence: A Scoping Review of the Empirical Literature0
Hizballah’s Intelligence Collection Leading Up to and During the 2006 War With Israel: How a VNSA Conducts Operative Intelligence0
Countering Violent Extremism in Trinidad and Tobago: An Evaluation0
Terrorism and the Media: Toward a New Measure of Media-Orientation0
Power, Perception, Group Relationships, and Conflict Dynamics: Loyalist Paramilitary Violence and Its Effects Within the Republic of Ireland During the Troubles, 1969–19980
The Emergence of the Incel Community as a Misogyny-Motivated Terrorist Threat0
Unraveling the Radical Flank Effect: The Role of Moderate Organizations in the Face of Radical Flank Violence0
A Conversation with Leonard Weinberg0
The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?0
Terror, Political Risk, and Effect on Foreign Direct Investment0
Operationalizing Terrorism as Makeshift Bombs: The User’s Guide0
Financial Extremism: The Dark Side of Crowdfunding and Terrorism0
Synergies between “Hard” and “Soft” Interventions Against Online Extremism: An Agent‑Based Simulation and Cost–Benefit Analysis0
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: The Brown-Red Cocktail0
Living in Yesterday’s Terror: The Impact of Civil War Violence on the Post-War Election in South Korea0
“We Want You!” Applying Social Network Analysis to Online Extremist Communities0
Experimenting with Threat: How Cyberterrorism Targeting Critical Infrastructure Influences Support for Surveillance Policies0
From Caliphate to Apostate: Constructivist Discourse Analysis of ISIS Propaganda Framing Turkey as the “Other”0
Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa0
The Prevalence of Terrorist Motives Among Civilians Who Kill Police Officers: A Mixed-Method Analysis0
The Ideology of Incels: Misogyny and Victimhood as Justification for Political Violence0
Religion, Family Pressure, Life Conditions: Turkish Female Foreign Fighters in Their Own Words0
Accepting Violence? A Laboratory Experiment of the Violent Consequences of Deliberation in Politically Aggrieved Enclaves0
Organize and Fight (Online): Assessing the Discursive Extremism of Anti-Lockdown Groups in Australia0
The Role of Basic Psychological Needs in Right-Wing Extremism Risk Among American Conservatives0
The Islamic Rational State and New Religious Foundations for an Islamic Liberal Theory0
Explaining Variation in Foreign Fighter Returnee Pathways0
Terrorist Financing: Traditional vs. Emerging Financial Technologies0
Public Perceptions of Violent Extremism and the Prevention of Violent Extremism in Mauritania and Burkina Faso: What They Tell Us About the Nature of the Problem and Opportunities for Intervention0
The Climate Change–Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Literature Review0
Reflections on David Rapoport and His Four Waves0
How Terrorism Strikes Financial Markets: Evidence from the 1920 Wall Street Bombing0
Using Conversion Theory to Explain Western Jihadi Terrorist Radicalization: Case Studies of Mohammed Bouyeri and Mohammad Momin Khawaja0
How Students and the Public Define Terrorism, and How Education Affects Those Definitions0
Supporting Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: Proposing a 5R Framework to Inform Program and Policy Development0
Where’s the Sabotage? Repression, Recruitment, and Tactical Evolution in the U.S. Radical Environmental Movement0
Power, Signaling, and Credibility: Terrorist Group Alliances and the Bargaining Range for Peace0
David C. Rapoport (1929–2024): A Scholar’s Covenant0
The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country0
Examining Radicalization Using a Game Paradigm: The Opponent Immersion Game0
Exploring the Impact of Cryptocurrency on Terrorism0
Dams, Terrorism, and Water Nationalism’s Response to Globalization and Development: The Case of South Asia0
Distinguishing Violent and Non-violent Criminal Extremists Based on Risk and Protective Factors0
The Bad Neighbor Problem: Analyzing the Geographic Spread of Terrorism Across Contiguous Border States0
Breaking the Bank: Effects of Domestic Conflict on the Banking Sector in Turkey0
A Conversation with Brigitte Nacos0
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Susceptibility to Violent Extremism0
Basic Psychological Needs and Extremism: Understanding Theories Through Meta-Analysis0
Incitement to Violence and Stochastic Terrorism: Legal, Academic, and Practical Parameters for Researchers and Investigators0
Target Hardening and Non-State Armed Groups’ Target Selection: Evidence from India0
What Does Sustained Desistance from Violent Extremism Entail: A Proposed Theory of Change and Policy Implications0
“Killing All Infidels”: Leaking Prior to Islamist Terrorist Attacks in Germany0
Smuggler, Fighter, Preacher, Spy: Motivational Change and Divergence inside FARC Specialized Fronts0
Battle for Allegiance: Governments, Terrorist Groups, and Constituencies in Conflict0
Modelling Drivers of Grievance-Fuelled Violence0
A Decade of Media Coverage of the Social Reintegration of Terrorism-Related Convicts: France as a Case Study0
Supreme Gentlemen: The Path of Radicalization for the Incel Community’s Lone Wolves0
Envy, Emotional Urgency, and Radicalization: The Impulsive Route is Paved in Malice0
Incel Violence and Victimhood: Negotiating Inceldom in Online Discussions of the Plymouth Shooting0
Perceptions of Far-Right Extremist Violence as Terrorism: Exploring Influences on Public Perception in the United Kingdom0
Armed to Kill: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Examining the Links between Firearms Availability, Gun Control, and Terrorism Using the Global Terrorism Database and the Small Arms Survey0
Islamic Perspectives on International Conflict Resolution: Theological Debates and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process0
Should I Signal Trust? Effect of Terrorism on Interpersonal Trust in Post-Conflict and Non-Post-Conflict Countries0
Bad Men, Good Men, and Loving Women: Gender Constructions in British State Messaging on Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Violent Extremism0
What Can Economics Contribute to the Study of Terrorism? – The Power and Limitation of Economics0
QAnon Beliefs, Political Radicalization and Support for January 6th Insurrection: A Gendered Perspective0
The Role of Ideology in Terrorist Attack Intentions and Outcomes0
Determining the Impact of Armed Conflict on Technological Innovation0
Extreme Belief and Extreme Behavior Reconsidered: A Response to Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko0
The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism: Far-Right Extremism in Australia and the UK0
The Politics of Perception: Political Preference Strongly Associated with Different Perceptions of Islamist and Right-Wing Terrorism Risk0
What’s in a Word? Revisiting the Role of Ideology in the Practice of and Scholarship on Countering Violent Extremism0
Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community0
Understanding Involvement in Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Theoretical Integration through the ABC Model0
Risk and Reward: How Shadow Economies Impact the Financial Practices of Militant Organizations0
Location, Location, Location: Disentangling Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking0
Cow Slaughter Laws and Violent Vigilantism in the States of India: A Quantitative Analysis0
“And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles0
The Disappeared: The Hidden Victims of Northern Ireland’s Conflict0
The Gift of Gab: A Netnographic Examination of the Community Building Mechanisms in Far-Right Online Space0
Beneath the Silvery Sands: Unravelling the Maldives’ Counterterrorism Policy0
ISIS’ Propaganda Machine: Global Mediated Terrorism0
Exposure to Violence and Protest Participation: Evidence from Post-Conflict Uganda0
“Because They Are Women in a Man’s World”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Incel Violent Extremists and the Stories They Tell0
“We Have Successfully Neutralised an Attack”—Historical Case Studies in Terrorism Prevention Through Cooperation0
Militant Leadership and Terrorism in Armed Conflict0
What Effect does Ideological Extremism have on Mass Shootings? An Assessment of Motivational Inconsistencies, Risk Profiles, and Attack Behaviors0
Kyle Rittenhouse and the Shared Meme Networks of the Armed American Far-Right: An Analysis of the Content Creation Formula, right-wing Injection of Politics, and Normalization of Violence0
Security Officials’ Perspectives on Reintegration Challenges for Former Al-Shabaab Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Kenya0
Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli , by Raphaël Lefèvre, New Yor0
Tracking Far-Right Violence Against Indigenous Communities: An Overlooked Problem0
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