Terrorism and Political Violence

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Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits42
Selective Visibility: How Newsworthiness Shapes Unattributed Violence Across Terrorist Tactics in Open-Source Data37
The Mathematics of Political Mayhem: A Computational Model for Predicting Stochastic Violence32
The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence27
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States21
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults17
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks16
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups16
Losing Hearts and Minds: Civil Conflict, Counterinsurgency Policing and Postwar Crime in Insurgent Strongholds16
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows14
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing14
Racist and Anti-diversity Attitudes as Predictors of Support for Political Violence among Supporters of Mainstream Political Parties13
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA12
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles12
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism11
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review10
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
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire9
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups9
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization9
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology9
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words8
Countering ISIS Finances: A New Paradigm of Success8
Time Is of the Essence: Temporality and Competition as Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking8
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-20207
The Word and the Bullet: Out-Grouping and Threat Framing as Predictors of Islamic State Targeting, 2015–20207
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace7
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses7
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors7
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict6
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research6
Innovation and Organisational Survival in Terrorist Groups: Evidence from the PKK6
A Conversation with Professor Max Taylor6
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In6
Portugal’s Forgotten Overseas Wars in the 20th Century6
South Sudan’s Injustice System. Law and Activism on the Frontline6
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–20166
Belief and Behavior in Radicalization: Clarifying the Link in Response to Peels6
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives6
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War6
Correction5
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences5
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks5
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq5
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan5
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants5
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates4
Religious Redemption as the Motivation for the Jihadist Crime-Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Inquiry4
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus4
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)4
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism4
What Is Deradicalization? Translating Security Practices in the Maghreb and the Sahel4
Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence4
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison3
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims3
Targeting Taxonomy and Patterns of Political Violence in Stable Societies: Evidence from the Far Right in Italy3
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling3
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern3
PTSD and Coping Strategies Among Palestinian University Students During Political Violence: A Cross Sectional Study3
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Spiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?3
Seeing through Troubled Water: Proposing a Narrow Focus on Behavioral Warning Signals for the Prevention of Terrorist Violence3
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
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark3
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War3
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine3
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists3
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger3
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts3
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in ISIS’s Online Magazine, Dabiq2
Why They Fight: Ideology and Terrorist Motivation2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy2
Deterring Terrorism: A Model for Strategic Deterrence2
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups2
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
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Anti-Government Extremism: Mitigating the Threat with Procedurally Just Governance2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data2
Psychological Dynamics of Terrorism: Insights from Individuals Exposed to Extremist Activities Embedded in Conflict-Prone Environments2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru2
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects2
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror2
Islam, State, and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis2
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence2
Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia2
Never-Ending War on Terror2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem2
Why Do Online Countering Violent Extremism Strategies Not Work? The Case of Digital Jihad2
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
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression2
The Role of Honeypots and Sabotage in State-Based Operations Against Online Jihadism, 2001-20202
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety2
U.S. Homegrown Political Violence and Terrorism2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland2
Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence: How Internal Brakes Limited Violent Escalation from the Provisional IRA in Pre- and Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland2
Older and Wiser: How Terrorist Leaders’ Tenure Influences Tactical Decisions1
A Conversation with Professor Martha Crenshaw1
White Jihad: How White Supremacists Adopt Jihadi Narratives, Aesthetics, and Tactics1
Disengaged but Still Radical? Pathways Out of Violent Right-Wing Extremism1
Anti-Terrorism Law and Foreign Terrorist Fighters1
A Tale of Terror: Autoethnography and the Study of Terrorism1
How Wartime Bonds Affect Ex-Combatant Political Attitudes: A Natural Experiment with the FARC1
Pathways to the Caliphate: Mapping Malaysian Foreign Fighter Networks in Iraq and Syria from 2012-20191
The Impact of Public Holidays on Insurgent Attacks: The Case of Thailand1
How Much Bang for the Buck? Exploring the Effects of Ransom Payments on Terrorist Activity in West Africa1
Making War on the Fabric of Society: A Cross-National Analysis of Terrorism, Urban Public Space and Generalized Social Trust in Europe1
“Freedom Fighters:” Motivations of Western Volunteers to Fight on the Side of Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-20221
Crowdsourcing Samples for Research on Violent Extremism: A Research Note1
From Local to Regional Spoiler: Hamas as a Case Study of a Multi-Dimensional Spoiler1
In Memory of David C. Rapoport1
Sources of Conventional and Guerrilla Strategies in Ethno-Territorial Civil Wars1
The Extreme Right, Climate Change and Terrorism1
Gaming and Extremism. The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds1
The African Union’s Policy Frameworks, Institutional Mechanisms and Challenges in Countering Terrorism in Africa1
Sympathy for ISIS Among Political Islamists: The Moderating Role of Institutional Trust1
‘Playing the System’: Agency and Everyday Negotiations during LTTE Rule1
The Evolution of Transnational Jihad: Identities, Grievances, and Legitimacy Crisis in Arab States1
Ethical Violence1
“White Jihad” and “White Sharia”: Jihadism as an Instrument of Intra-Extremist Outbidding among Right-Wing Extremists1
Combating the Terrorist Stigma: Communicating Rehabilitation and Reducing Barriers to Reintegration1
Citizens, Extremists, Terrorists: Comparing Radicalized Individuals with the General Population1
“Press F to Pay Respects”: An Empirical Exploration of the Mechanics of Gamification in Relation to the Christchurch Attack1
How They Join: Lessons from Examining Radicalisation and Recruitment Patterns in Kashmir1
Exploring the Relationship between Opportunity and Self-Control in Youth Exposure to and Sharing of Online Hate Content1
Stop Cop City!—Understanding the Strategic Choices of Protest Movements1
The Impact of Policy (Il)Legitimacy on Interagency Collaboration and Trust: Differential Impact on CVE Professionals in Denmark1
Studies on Islamic Extremism and Deradicalization in the Middle East1
Taming the Beast: Democratic Institutions and Terrorist Groups’ Involvement in Civil War1
Life Difficulties, Violent Online Extremism and Support for Political Violence in the United States1
Islamic State in Australia1
Terrorized by Immigration? Threat Perceptions and Policy Preferences1
Before Boko Haram: Islamic Fundamentalism and Violence in Northern Nigeria1
Frustrated Aspirations and Different Types of Political Violence: Evidence from “Folk Knowledge” in Kosovo1
Firm Convictions?: Unpicking Framings of Child Terrorism Offenders1
Moving into Terrorism: How Climate-Induced Rural-Urban Migration May Increase the Risk of Terrorism1
Location, Location, Location: Disentangling Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking0
The Emergence of the Incel Community as a Misogyny-Motivated Terrorist Threat0
How Terrorism Strikes Financial Markets: Evidence from the 1920 Wall Street Bombing0
Hizballah’s Intelligence Collection Leading Up to and During the 2006 War With Israel: How a VNSA Conducts Operative Intelligence0
The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War0
Identity and Ideology through the Frames of Al Qaeda and Islamic State0
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
The Disappeared: The Hidden Victims of Northern Ireland’s Conflict0
Security Officials’ Perspectives on Reintegration Challenges for Former Al-Shabaab Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Kenya0
A Systematic Review of the Risk and Protective Factors for Processes Associated with Islamist Radicalization and Extremism0
Who Becomes a Foreign Fighter? Characteristics of the Islamic State’s Soldiers0
Target Hardening and Non-State Armed Groups’ Target Selection: Evidence from India0
Incel Violence and Victimhood: Negotiating Inceldom in Online Discussions of the Plymouth Shooting0
Supreme Gentlemen: The Path of Radicalization for the Incel Community’s Lone Wolves0
Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa0
The Islamic Rational State and New Religious Foundations for an Islamic Liberal Theory0
Organize and Fight (Online): Assessing the Discursive Extremism of Anti-Lockdown Groups in Australia0
Hero or Zero? Meta-Opinion in Terrorist Motivation0
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
Bad Men, Good Men, and Loving Women: Gender Constructions in British State Messaging on Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Violent Extremism0
What Is It to Explain Extremism?0
A Decade of Media Coverage of the Social Reintegration of Terrorism-Related Convicts: France as a Case Study0
Countering Violent Extremism in Trinidad and Tobago: An Evaluation0
The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country0
Vanity of the Bonfires? Eleventh Night Bonfires and Loyalist Influence After Negotiated Settlement in Northern Ireland0
How Students and the Public Define Terrorism, and How Education Affects Those Definitions0
What Does Sustained Desistance from Violent Extremism Entail: A Proposed Theory of Change and Policy Implications0
The Politics of Perception: Political Preference Strongly Associated with Different Perceptions of Islamist and Right-Wing Terrorism Risk0
Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community0
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: The Brown-Red Cocktail0
Power, Signaling, and Credibility: Terrorist Group Alliances and the Bargaining Range for Peace0
Perceptions of Far-Right Extremist Violence as Terrorism: Exploring Influences on Public Perception in the United Kingdom0
What’s in a Word? Revisiting the Role of Ideology in the Practice of and Scholarship on Countering Violent Extremism0
Resisting Radical Rebels: Variations in Islamist Rebel Governance and the Occurrence of Civil Resistance0
The Class Conflict Rises When You Turn up the Heat: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Climate Change and Left-Wing Terrorist Recruitment0
Synergies between “Hard” and “Soft” Interventions Against Online Extremism: An Agent‑Based Simulation and Cost–Benefit Analysis0
“We Have Successfully Neutralised an Attack”—Historical Case Studies in Terrorism Prevention Through Cooperation0
Transatlantic Ties of the Far Right: The NSU Case in Germany and its Links to Actors and Incidents in the USA0
Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win0
Negotiating Peace with Islamists? Reviewing the Literature0
What Effect does Ideological Extremism have on Mass Shootings? An Assessment of Motivational Inconsistencies, Risk Profiles, and Attack Behaviors0
Exposure to Violence and Protest Participation: Evidence from Post-Conflict Uganda0
Responding Non-Violently to ETA’s Violence: The Motivations and Emotions of Victims of Terrorism in Spain0
Militant Leadership and Terrorism in Armed Conflict0
Risk and Reward: How Shadow Economies Impact the Financial Practices of Militant Organizations0
The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy0
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
Battle for Allegiance: Governments, Terrorist Groups, and Constituencies in Conflict0
The Climate Change–Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Literature Review0
The Prevalence of Terrorist Motives Among Civilians Who Kill Police Officers: A Mixed-Method Analysis0
Unraveling the Radical Flank Effect: The Role of Moderate Organizations in the Face of Radical Flank Violence0
Islamic Perspectives on International Conflict Resolution: Theological Debates and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process0
Explaining Variation in Foreign Fighter Returnee Pathways0
Why I Want to Join the Base: Examining Individual-level Motivational Factors in Recruiting Interviews0
Terrorist Financing: Traditional vs. Emerging Financial Technologies0
Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space0
Dams, Terrorism, and Water Nationalism’s Response to Globalization and Development: The Case of South Asia0
Bayesian Inferences for Counterterrorism Policy: A Retrospective Case Study of the U.S. War in Afghanistan0
The Role of Basic Psychological Needs in Right-Wing Extremism Risk Among American Conservatives0
Extreme Belief and Extreme Behavior Reconsidered: A Response to Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko0
Accepting Violence? A Laboratory Experiment of the Violent Consequences of Deliberation in Politically Aggrieved Enclaves0
The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization0
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
Which Target is the Right Target? The Connection Between Terrorists’ Reputation Building and Target Selection0
Assessing Organisational Splits and Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation within the Australian Extreme Right, 2015–20200
Supporting Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: Proposing a 5R Framework to Inform Program and Policy Development0
Living in Yesterday’s Terror: The Impact of Civil War Violence on the Post-War Election in South Korea0
Breaking the Bank: Effects of Domestic Conflict on the Banking Sector in Turkey0
Confluences of Street Culture and Jihadism: The Spatial, Bodily, and Narrative Dimensions of Radicalization0
Is AI-Generated Extremism Credible? Experimental Evidence from an Expert Survey0
“And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles0
Name, Shame, and Blame: Terrorist Designation and Peace Negotiations0
Examining the Intersection of Radicalism, Activism, and Gun Violence0
Financial Extremism: The Dark Side of Crowdfunding and Terrorism0
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo: Variations in Civilian Targeting by Militant Groups0
“Killing All Infidels”: Leaking Prior to Islamist Terrorist Attacks in Germany0
“We Want You!” Applying Social Network Analysis to Online Extremist Communities0
Smuggler, Fighter, Preacher, Spy: Motivational Change and Divergence inside FARC Specialized Fronts0
Homegrown: Identity and Difference in the American War on Terror0
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
Exploring the Impact of Cryptocurrency on Terrorism0
Experimenting with Threat: How Cyberterrorism Targeting Critical Infrastructure Influences Support for Surveillance Policies0
The Role of Ideology in Terrorist Attack Intentions and Outcomes0
Do Blasphemy Restrictions Restrict Terrorism?0
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs with Violence: A Scoping Review of the Empirical Literature0
Blowback Operations as Rebel Strategy: How Sectarian Violence Spread from Syria into Lebanon, 2013–140
Sectarian Identity and Mobilization Amongst the Druze: How Do Sectarian Minorities Respond to Religious Terrorism?0
Envy, Emotional Urgency, and Radicalization: The Impulsive Route is Paved in Malice0
Examining Radicalization Using a Game Paradigm: The Opponent Immersion Game0
Investigating the Role of Morality in Lone-Actor Terrorist Motivations and Attack Severity0
The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?0
What Can Economics Contribute to the Study of Terrorism? – The Power and Limitation of Economics0
The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism: Far-Right Extremism in Australia and the UK0
QAnon Beliefs, Political Radicalization and Support for January 6th Insurrection: A Gendered Perspective0
Determining the Impact of Armed Conflict on Technological Innovation0
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: A Rapid Review to Inform Program and Policy Development0
Terrorism and the Media: Toward a New Measure of Media-Orientation0
Fighting Terror After Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure After 18150
“Today I Die like Jesus Christ”: An Analysis of Ressentiment in Perceptions, Motivations and Justifications of Violent Extremist Manifestos0
The Bad Neighbor Problem: Analyzing the Geographic Spread of Terrorism Across Contiguous Border States0
Analyzing Human Behaviors in the Immediate Aftermath of A Terrorist Bombing: A Multi-Case Analysis0
Should I Signal Trust? Effect of Terrorism on Interpersonal Trust in Post-Conflict and Non-Post-Conflict Countries0
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