OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Terrorism and Political Violence is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits	50
The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence	44
The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda	36
The Mathematics of Political Mayhem: A Computational Model for Predicting Stochastic Violence	28
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks	22
Exploring the Religious Dimensions of American Far-Right Extremist Discourse	19
The Pathway Model of Radicalization 2.0: Empirical Insights into the Religiously Motivated, Right-Wing and Left-Wing Radicalization Process	18
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups	17
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows	17
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States	16
Selective Visibility: How Newsworthiness Shapes Unattributed Violence Across Terrorist Tactics in Open-Source Data	16
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing	16
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults	15
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles	14
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA	12
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism	11
Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program	10
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review	10
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology	10
From Waves to Questions: How David Rapoport Shaped My Thinking as a Practitioner & Research as a Scholar	10
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups	10
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan	10
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words	9
Countering ISIS Finances: A New Paradigm of Success	9
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization	9

Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-2020	8
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses	8
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire	8
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace	8
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors	8
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Looking at the Current Milieu Through Rapoport’s Four Waves Theory of Modern Terrorism	7
Belief and Behavior in Radicalization: Clarifying the Link in Response to Peels	7
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016	7
Mapping the Waves of Terrorism Using Computational Text Analysis	7
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research	7
The Word and the Bullet: Out-Grouping and Threat Framing as Predictors of Islamic State Targeting, 2015–2020	7
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict	7
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Legacy of David C. Rapoport	6
From Theory to Policy: The Four Waves and U.S. Counterterrorism	6
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq	6
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives	6
A Conversation with Professor Max Taylor	6
Innovation and Organisational Survival in Terrorist Groups: Evidence from the PKK	6
The Crime-Terrorism Nexus and Jihadist Radicalization in the West: New Data and Interpretative Challenges	6
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan	6
Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence	5
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates	5
Religious Redemption as the Motivation for the Jihadist Crime-Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Inquiry	5
Correction	5
What Is Deradicalization? Translating Security Practices in the Maghreb and the Sahel	5
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 Attacks	5
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism	5
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus	4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques	4
Religious Political Violence in Early 19th Century America	4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism	4
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts	4
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants	4
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War	4
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences	4
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 Italy	3
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists	3
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups	3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?	3
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study	3
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark	3
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger	3
PTSD and Coping Strategies Among Palestinian University Students During Political Violence: A Cross Sectional Study	3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists	3
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling	3
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern	3
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland	3

Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims	3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine	3
Seeing through Troubled Water: Proposing a Narrow Focus on Behavioral Warning Signals for the Prevention of Terrorist Violence	3
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model	3
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison	3
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices	2
Psychological Dynamics of Terrorism: Insights from Individuals Exposed to Extremist Activities Embedded in Conflict-Prone Environments	2
Countering Counterterrorism: The Impact of Citizenship Revocation on National Security	2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem	2
Riding the Waves: Reimagining Rapoport’s Thesis with Stochastic Terrorist Actors	2
A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Stern	2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process	2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy	2
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 Peru	2
David Rapoport Tribute	2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror	2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland	2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety	2
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression	2
Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence: How Internal Brakes Limited Violent Escalation from the Provisional IRA in Pre- and Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland	2
Why They Fight: Ideology and Terrorist Motivation	2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden	2
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence	2
Islam, State, and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis	2
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 Governance	2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data	2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy	2
Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia	2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects	2