Terrorism and Political Violence

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Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits50
The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence44
The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda36
The Mathematics of Political Mayhem: A Computational Model for Predicting Stochastic Violence28
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks22
Exploring the Religious Dimensions of American Far-Right Extremist Discourse19
The Pathway Model of Radicalization 2.0: Empirical Insights into the Religiously Motivated, Right-Wing and Left-Wing Radicalization Process18
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows17
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups17
Selective Visibility: How Newsworthiness Shapes Unattributed Violence Across Terrorist Tactics in Open-Source Data16
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing16
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States16
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults15
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles14
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA12
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism11
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review10
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
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan10
Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program10
Countering ISIS Finances: A New Paradigm of Success9
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization9
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words9
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses8
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire8
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace8
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors8
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-20208
Mapping the Waves of Terrorism Using Computational Text Analysis7
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research7
The Word and the Bullet: Out-Grouping and Threat Framing as Predictors of Islamic State Targeting, 2015–20207
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict7
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In7
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Looking at the Current Milieu Through Rapoport’s Four Waves Theory of Modern Terrorism7
Belief and Behavior in Radicalization: Clarifying the Link in Response to Peels7
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–20167
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq6
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives6
A Conversation with Professor Max Taylor6
Innovation and Organisational Survival in Terrorist Groups: Evidence from the PKK6
The Crime-Terrorism Nexus and Jihadist Radicalization in the West: New Data and Interpretative Challenges6
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan6
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Legacy of David C. Rapoport6
From Theory to Policy: The Four Waves and U.S. Counterterrorism6
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates5
Religious Redemption as the Motivation for the Jihadist Crime-Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Inquiry5
Correction5
What Is Deradicalization? Translating Security Practices in the Maghreb and the Sahel5
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
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism5
Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence5
Religious Political Violence in Early 19th Century America4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism4
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts4
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants4
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War4
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences4
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques4
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study3
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark3
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger3
PTSD and Coping Strategies Among Palestinian University Students During Political Violence: A Cross Sectional Study3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists3
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling3
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern3
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine3
Seeing through Troubled Water: Proposing a Narrow Focus on Behavioral Warning Signals for the Prevention of Terrorist Violence3
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model3
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison3
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
Targeting Taxonomy and Patterns of Political Violence in Stable Societies: Evidence from the Far Right in Italy3
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists3
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?3
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland2
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression2
Why They Fight: Ideology and Terrorist Motivation2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden2
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence2
Islam, State, and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety2
Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence: How Internal Brakes Limited Violent Escalation from the Provisional IRA in Pre- and Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland2
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Anti-Government Extremism: Mitigating the Threat with Procedurally Just Governance2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects2
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices2
Psychological Dynamics of Terrorism: Insights from Individuals Exposed to Extremist Activities Embedded in Conflict-Prone Environments2
Countering Counterterrorism: The Impact of Citizenship Revocation on National Security2
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
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data2
Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem2
A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Stern2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy2
Non-Western Responses to Terrorism Non-Western Responses to Terrorism , edited by Michael J. Boyle, Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 2019, 504 pp., $36.2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru2
David Rapoport Tribute2
Riding the Waves: Reimagining Rapoport’s Thesis with Stochastic Terrorist Actors2
Pathways to the Caliphate: Mapping Malaysian Foreign Fighter Networks in Iraq and Syria from 2012-20191
Dying for Sex? Sexual Frustration, Socioeconomic Factors and ISIS Foreign Fighters1
Sources of Conventional and Guerrilla Strategies in Ethno-Territorial Civil Wars1
Ethical Violence1
Taming the Beast: Democratic Institutions and Terrorist Groups’ Involvement in Civil War1
The Impact of Public Holidays on Insurgent Attacks: The Case of Thailand1
Life Difficulties, Violent Online Extremism and Support for Political Violence in the United States1
Disengaged but Still Radical? Pathways Out of Violent Right-Wing Extremism1
Studies on Islamic Extremism and Deradicalization in the Middle East1
Sympathy for ISIS Among Political Islamists: The Moderating Role of Institutional Trust1
Stop Cop City!—Understanding the Strategic Choices of Protest Movements1
Moving into Terrorism: How Climate-Induced Rural-Urban Migration May Increase the Risk of Terrorism1
Terror, Political Risk, and Effect on Foreign Direct Investment1
A Conversation with Professor Martha Crenshaw1
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
Before the Waves: The Pioneering Early Work of David C. Rapoport1
Internal Brakes on Political Violence: A Case Study of Dissident Irish Republicanism1
‘Playing the System’: Agency and Everyday Negotiations during LTTE Rule1
Before Boko Haram: Islamic Fundamentalism and Violence in Northern Nigeria1
Combating the Terrorist Stigma: Communicating Rehabilitation and Reducing Barriers to Reintegration1
Terrorized by Immigration? Threat Perceptions and Policy Preferences1
Older and Wiser: How Terrorist Leaders’ Tenure Influences Tactical Decisions1
Islamic State in Australia1
Anti-Terrorism Law and Foreign Terrorist Fighters1
Support for Political Violence among the American Public: A Split-ballot Experiment1
Gaming and Extremism. The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds1
From Local to Regional Spoiler: Hamas as a Case Study of a Multi-Dimensional Spoiler1
Firm Convictions?: Unpicking Framings of Child Terrorism Offenders1
From Extreme Ideas to Violent and Nonviolent Outcomes: An In-Depth Analysis of Probation Files on Terrorist Suspects in the Netherlands1
Resisting Terror Civil Action and Non-Violent Resistance to Terrorism in Basque Country1
Exploring the Relationship between Opportunity and Self-Control in Youth Exposure to and Sharing of Online Hate Content1
Notes from the Underground: Profiles and Mobilization Dynamics of Pro-Russia Western Fighters in the Donbas—Insights from Italy1
White Jihad: How White Supremacists Adopt Jihadi Narratives, Aesthetics, and Tactics1
“Freedom Fighters:” Motivations of Western Volunteers to Fight on the Side of Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-20221
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
Crowdsourcing Samples for Research on Violent Extremism: A Research Note1
“White Jihad” and “White Sharia”: Jihadism as an Instrument of Intra-Extremist Outbidding among Right-Wing Extremists1
“Press F to Pay Respects”: An Empirical Exploration of the Mechanics of Gamification in Relation to the Christchurch Attack1
A Conversation with William Braniff1
A Tale of Terror: Autoethnography and the Study of Terrorism1
The Impact of Policy (Il)Legitimacy on Interagency Collaboration and Trust: Differential Impact on CVE Professionals in Denmark1
In Memory of David C. Rapoport1
Citizens, Extremists, Terrorists: Comparing Radicalized Individuals with the General Population1
Support for Partisan Violence among the Political Fringe: The Case of Antifa and QAnon Supporters1
Typology of Terrorist Profiling Using Centrality Metrics: Hinge Figures, Influential Operatives and Trusted Assets1
The Extreme Right, Climate Change and Terrorism1
The Evolution of Transnational Jihad: Identities, Grievances, and Legitimacy Crisis in Arab States1
Where’s the Sabotage? Repression, Recruitment, and Tactical Evolution in the U.S. Radical Environmental Movement0
The Politics of Perception: Political Preference Strongly Associated with Different Perceptions of Islamist and Right-Wing Terrorism Risk0
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
Vanity of the Bonfires? Eleventh Night Bonfires and Loyalist Influence After Negotiated Settlement in Northern Ireland0
Should I Signal Trust? Effect of Terrorism on Interpersonal Trust in Post-Conflict and Non-Post-Conflict Countries0
What Is It to Explain Extremism?0
Militant Leadership and Terrorism in Armed Conflict0
The Disappeared: The Hidden Victims of Northern Ireland’s Conflict0
Determining the Impact of Armed Conflict on Technological Innovation0
The Emergence of the Incel Community as a Misogyny-Motivated Terrorist Threat0
The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?0
“We Want You!” Applying Social Network Analysis to Online Extremist Communities0
Terrorism and the Media: Toward a New Measure of Media-Orientation0
The Islamic Rational State and New Religious Foundations for an Islamic Liberal Theory0
Who Becomes a Foreign Fighter? Characteristics of the Islamic State’s Soldiers0
Risk and Reward: How Shadow Economies Impact the Financial Practices of Militant Organizations0
Bayesian Inferences for Counterterrorism Policy: A Retrospective Case Study of the U.S. War in Afghanistan0
“Killing All Infidels”: Leaking Prior to Islamist Terrorist Attacks in Germany0
Examining Radicalization Using a Game Paradigm: The Opponent Immersion Game0
Supreme Gentlemen: The Path of Radicalization for the Incel Community’s Lone Wolves0
Hero or Zero? Meta-Opinion in Terrorist Motivation0
Countering Violent Extremism in Trinidad and Tobago: An Evaluation0
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
Battle for Allegiance: Governments, Terrorist Groups, and Constituencies in Conflict0
Incel Violence and Victimhood: Negotiating Inceldom in Online Discussions of the Plymouth Shooting0
Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community0
Target Hardening and Non-State Armed Groups’ Target Selection: Evidence from India0
“We Have Successfully Neutralised an Attack”—Historical Case Studies in Terrorism Prevention Through Cooperation0
The Role of Basic Psychological Needs in Right-Wing Extremism Risk Among American Conservatives0
David Rapoport – Terrorism Scholar0
The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism: Far-Right Extremism in Australia and the UK0
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
Location, Location, Location: Disentangling Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking0
What Does Sustained Desistance from Violent Extremism Entail: A Proposed Theory of Change and Policy Implications0
Power, Signaling, and Credibility: Terrorist Group Alliances and the Bargaining Range for Peace0
A Plague of Locusts? A Preliminary Assessment of the Threat of Multi-Drone Terrorism0
Understanding Involvement in Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Theoretical Integration through the ABC Model0
Power, Perception, Group Relationships, and Conflict Dynamics: Loyalist Paramilitary Violence and Its Effects Within the Republic of Ireland During the Troubles, 1969–19980
Dams, Terrorism, and Water Nationalism’s Response to Globalization and Development: The Case of South Asia0
Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win0
Security Officials’ Perspectives on Reintegration Challenges for Former Al-Shabaab Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Kenya0
Breaking the Bank: Effects of Domestic Conflict on the Banking Sector in Turkey0
Exposure to Violence and Protest Participation: Evidence from Post-Conflict Uganda0
Financial Extremism: The Dark Side of Crowdfunding and Terrorism0
Experimenting with Threat: How Cyberterrorism Targeting Critical Infrastructure Influences Support for Surveillance Policies0
Islamic Perspectives on International Conflict Resolution: Theological Debates and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process0
Envy, Emotional Urgency, and Radicalization: The Impulsive Route is Paved in Malice0
Terrorist Financing: Traditional vs. Emerging Financial Technologies0
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
The Ideology of Incels: Misogyny and Victimhood as Justification for Political Violence0
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
Do Blasphemy Restrictions Restrict Terrorism?0
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs with Violence: A Scoping Review of the Empirical Literature0
How Students and the Public Define Terrorism, and How Education Affects Those Definitions0
Explaining Variation in Foreign Fighter Returnee Pathways0
Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa0
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: The Brown-Red Cocktail0
A Decade of Media Coverage of the Social Reintegration of Terrorism-Related Convicts: France as a Case Study0
Transatlantic Ties of the Far Right: The NSU Case in Germany and its Links to Actors and Incidents in the USA0
Basic Psychological Needs and Extremism: Understanding Theories Through Meta-Analysis0
Investigating the Role of Morality in Lone-Actor Terrorist Motivations and Attack Severity0
QAnon Beliefs, Political Radicalization and Support for January 6th Insurrection: A Gendered Perspective0
The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization0
Supporting Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: Proposing a 5R Framework to Inform Program and Policy Development0
Is AI-Generated Extremism Credible? Experimental Evidence from an Expert Survey0
Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space0
Synergies between “Hard” and “Soft” Interventions Against Online Extremism: An Agent‑Based Simulation and Cost–Benefit Analysis0
The Class Conflict Rises When You Turn up the Heat: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Climate Change and Left-Wing Terrorist Recruitment0
Hizballah’s Intelligence Collection Leading Up to and During the 2006 War With Israel: How a VNSA Conducts Operative Intelligence0
Distinguishing Violent and Non-violent Criminal Extremists Based on Risk and Protective Factors0
Unraveling the Radical Flank Effect: The Role of Moderate Organizations in the Face of Radical Flank Violence0
“And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles0
A Conversation with Brigitte Nacos0
Incitement to Violence and Stochastic Terrorism: Legal, Academic, and Practical Parameters for Researchers and Investigators0
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo: Variations in Civilian Targeting by Militant Groups0
Why I Want to Join the Base: Examining Individual-level Motivational Factors in Recruiting Interviews0
A Conversation with Leonard Weinberg0
What Effect does Ideological Extremism have on Mass Shootings? An Assessment of Motivational Inconsistencies, Risk Profiles, and Attack Behaviors0
Perceptions of Far-Right Extremist Violence as Terrorism: Exploring Influences on Public Perception in the United Kingdom0
Exploring the Impact of Cryptocurrency on Terrorism0
What Can Economics Contribute to the Study of Terrorism? – The Power and Limitation of Economics0
The Prevalence of Terrorist Motives Among Civilians Who Kill Police Officers: A Mixed-Method Analysis0
Beneath the Silvery Sands: Unravelling the Maldives’ Counterterrorism Policy0
Reflections on David Rapoport and His Four Waves0
Organize and Fight (Online): Assessing the Discursive Extremism of Anti-Lockdown Groups in Australia0
David C. Rapoport (1929–2024): A Scholar’s Covenant0
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: A Rapid Review to Inform Program and Policy Development0
Fighting Terror After Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure After 18150
Smuggler, Fighter, Preacher, Spy: Motivational Change and Divergence inside FARC Specialized Fronts0
The Bad Neighbor Problem: Analyzing the Geographic Spread of Terrorism Across Contiguous Border States0
The Role of Ideology in Terrorist Attack Intentions and Outcomes0
Accepting Violence? A Laboratory Experiment of the Violent Consequences of Deliberation in Politically Aggrieved Enclaves0
Name, Shame, and Blame: Terrorist Designation and Peace Negotiations0
Using Conversion Theory to Explain Western Jihadi Terrorist Radicalization: Case Studies of Mohammed Bouyeri and Mohammad Momin Khawaja0
Extreme Belief and Extreme Behavior Reconsidered: A Response to Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko0
Living in Yesterday’s Terror: The Impact of Civil War Violence on the Post-War Election in South Korea0
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