Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel24
Examining the Outcome of Investigations and Prosecutions of Extremism in the United States17
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia17
Debates and Controversies over the Legitimacy of “Internet Sources” in Scholarship on Jihadism: The Online Dimension in the Persistence of the “Al-Qaeda Narrative” in Boko Haram Studies13
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups12
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study12
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland10
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism10
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement10
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary9
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia9
Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales9
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia8
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants8
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq8
Remembering a Road: How One U.S. Development Project Provides Insight into America’s Complicated Legacy in Afghanistan8
The Smallest Act You Do in Their Lands is More Beloved to Us than the Biggest Act Done Here”: When Do an Armed Movement’s Transnational Supporters Turn to Terrorism at Home?8
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days8
Maintaining Course or Righting the Ship? Examining Adjustments in Al-Qaeda’s Communicative Approach8
Post-Fordism and the Transformation of Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism8
Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism8
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict8
Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock7
Rebel Recruitment and Governance: Examining the Relationship Between Mobilization Strategies and the Provision of Social Services to Civilians7
Research Note: Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files7
Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited6
The Logic of Non-State Armed Groups Survival in Syria: A Contemporary Framework of Analysis6
“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats6
Online and Social Media News Usage, Conspiratorial Attitudes and Fear of Terrorism6
Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism6
How Members of the Islamic State-Linked Ripoll Cell Grouped, Radicalized and Plotted Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona5
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-255
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment5
Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation5
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from an Insurgent Group to a Local Authority: Emergence, Development and Social Support Base5
Reasons behind Reasons: A Communitarian Reading of Women’s Radicalization and Family Bombings in Southeast Asia5
From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization5
The (Non) Deus-Ex Machina: A Realistic Assessment of Machine Learning for Countering Domestic Terrorism4
Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria4
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?4
The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data4
Real or Imagined Consolidation? The Case of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces4
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks4
Reassessing Core Perceptions of Evolving Threats Following the October 7th Attacks4
Maintaining Dominance: Explaining the Rise of Late-Entering Insurgent Groups in El Salvador and Guatemala4
Emotional Trials in Terrorism Research: Running Risks When Accessing Salafi-Jihadist Foreign Fighter Returnees and Their Social Milieu4
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism4
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia3
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism3
Foreign Military Aid, War-Induced Economy, and Terrorism in Afghanistan3
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms3
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists3
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP3
The False Promise of Foreign Fighters: The Effect of Somali Foreign Fighters on Civilian Victimization3
Ulsterisation vs De-Baathification: Precedents in Local Security During Counterinsurgency3
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas3
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion3
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?3
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence3
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security3
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia3
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict3
The Crime-Terror Nexus and the Illicit Trade in Drugs3
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership3
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge3
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board3
The “Lightning” Brigade: Security Force Assistance and the Fight Against al-Shabaab3
Time to Bear Arms: An Exploration of Time Suspensions Between Lone Mass Shooting Attacks in the US and When the Perpetrator Acquired Their Weapons3
The Kurdish Protection Units in Northern Syria: A Deviant Case of Peaceful Cohabitation between Foreign Fighters and Local Civilians?3
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies3
Discussing Terrorism in the Classroom – Adopting an Empathizing and Historical Perspective: A Research Note2
Recommendations for Assessing Vulnerabilities in Soft Targets and Crowded Places2
Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions2
The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents2
The Fast & The Furious…Torturous? : Examining the Impact of Torture Scenes in Popular Films on Public Perceptions of Torture Policy2
Eco-Fascism Online: Conceptualizing Far-Right Actors’ Response to Climate Change on Stormfront2
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots2
Queering Terrorism2
Social Cohesion and Collective Violence: Latent Variable Approach to Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem2
Exposure to Extremist Content and Public Sympathy for ISIS2
Anatomy of Terrorist Cells: A Critical Examination and Identified Gaps in Current Research2
Gaza’s Subterranean Warfare: Palestinian Resistance Tunnels vs. Israel’s Military Strategy2
The Devil is in the Detail: Assessing Threat-Framing in Violent Extremist Discourses2
The “Disaster Business”: Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking2
The Evolution of Far-Right Terrorist Tactics and Targeting2
Networks, Marriage, and Socioeconomics: Comparing the Men and Women of the Islamic State2
From the PYD-YPG to the SDF: the Consolidation of Power in Kurdish-Controlled Northeast Syria2
Counter-Terrorism: The Risk of Performativity in Big Data-Based Mass Surveillance2
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes2
Operation Jungle Fire: The Consolidation of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy2
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies2
3D-Printed Firearms: Global Proliferation Trends and Analyses2
Jihadist Ideological Conflict and Local Governance in Mali2
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate2
From Mobilization to Annihilation: The Strategic Logics of Bioterrorism2
The Growth of Narco-Terrorism in Mexico: Expanding The Counternarcotic Strategy with Foreign Terrorist Designation2
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists2
Countering the Financing of Terrorists’ Salaries2
Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems2
Risk of Romani Radicalization in the Balkans: Freeing the Shackles of a Marginalized Identity2
From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships2
Under the Hood – Learning and Innovation in the Islamic State’s Suicide Vehicle Industry2
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization2
From Black to White Flags: The Resurgence of Extremist Groups in Post-ISIS Iraq2
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Terrorism: A Systematic Review of the Literature2
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else?2
The European Union as a Maritime Security Provider – The Naval Diplomacy Perspective2
Legitimation through Collectivization: Al Qaeda and US Discourses on the Use of Force2
The Impact of Diasporas on the Tactics of Rebel Groups: The Case of the IRA and Noraid1
The Frontlines Have Shifted: Explaining the Persistence of Pro-State Militias after Civil War1
Mechanisms of 3N Model on Radicalization: Testing the Mediation by Group Identity and Ideology of the Relationship between Need for Significance and Violent Extremism1
A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Foreign Fighters Traveling to Syria and Iraq1
The Ideology That Binds Us: Homophily in Ideology and Terrorists Collaborations1
Rights and Values in Counter-Terrorism Online1
Violent Extremism in Bima, Indonesia: Radical Milieu and Peacebuilding Efforts1
The Relationship between Existential Anxiety, Political Efficacy, Extrinsic Religiosity and Support for Violent Extremism in Indonesia1
Territorial Control and the Militarization of Violent Non-State Actors: Transformation, Opportunities, and Vulnerabilities1
Exiting the Manosphere. A Gendered Analysis of Radicalization, Diversion and Deradicalization Narratives from r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill1
Female Combatants and Durability of Civil War1
The New EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism: A Paradigm Shift in EU Efforts to Combat Terrorist Financing?1
“The Non-Combatant on the ‘Front Line’: British Servicewomen During the Troubles in Northern Ireland”1
An Exploratory Thematic Analysis of the Decision Challenges Faced by Emergency Responders During the 2017 Manchester Arena Attack1
Virtual and Physical Realities: Violent Extremists’ Recruitment of Individuals Associated with the US Military1
GIFCT Tech Trials: Combining Behavioural Signals to Surface Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online1
Understanding Qatar’s Relationship with Hamas: A Critical Exploration of State Sponsored Terrorism1
The Relationship between of Moral Injury and Radicalisation: A Systematic Review1
Dead Sheep Tell No Tales: Aum Shinrikyo’s Alleged Sarin Tests in Australia Never Happened1
Palestinian Lone Assailants, 2015–2023: Suicide, Legitimacy Communities and Duped Attackers1
When Transnationalism is not Global: Dynamics of Armed Transnational Shi‘a Islamist Groups1
Civil-Military Relations and Civilian Victimization in Civil War1
The Other Dark Side of Pro-Government Militias: Deterring Nonviolent Action and Spoiling Prospects for Peace During Civil Wars1
The Islamic State’s Visions of Political Community and Statehood and Their Articulation Vis-à-Vis Nationalism1
Strategies of Armed Group Consolidation in the Afghan Civil War (1989–2001)1
Beyond Healthy Skepticism: Exploring German News Media Framing of Terrorism-Affiliated Women Returnees1
Community Legitimisation of Irish Republican Paramilitarism in Belfast: A Criminological Understanding1
Nervos Belli or Economic Resources as Determinants of Terrorist Activity: The Case of ETA (1967–2010)1
The Model Muslim Minority: Wasatiyah (Justly-Balanced) as a Counter-Ideology Tool in Singapore1
The Intersection between Islamic Populism and Radicalism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of Aksi Bela Islam Movement1
Safety-Level Victories for Democratic States in Warfare Against Hybrid Non-State Terror Actors1
Introduction to Special Issue: The Practicalities and Complexities of (Regulating) Online Terrorist Content Moderation1
Jihadists’ Use and Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Comparative Study of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Weapons Programs1
Is There a Language of Terrorists? A Comparative Manifesto Analysis1
How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power1
From Rebelling to Ruling: Insurgent Victory and State Capture in Africa1
Between Containment and Degrading: Tracing U.S. Policy toward Africa through Strategic Transformations in AFRICOM’s Counter-Terrorism Approach1
Radical Feminist Rhetoric and Terrorism: The May 19th Communist Organization1
White Warriors and Weak Women: Identifying Central Discourses of Masculinity in Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels1
And the Last Straw Falls: The Cumulative Influence of Disillusionment among Former Viet Cong Insurgents1
Fighting against Jihad? Blood Revenge and Anti-Insurgent Mobilization in Jihadist Civil Wars1
State Legitimacy and Counterinsurgency: A Comparative Perspective1
Practices and Needs in Reintegration Programs for Violent Extremist Offenders in the United States: The Probation Officer Perspective1
Down the “Rabbit Hole” of Conspiracy-Fueled White Nationalism: Linking Outgroup Threat and Uncertainty to Conspiracy Beliefs and Prejudice Toward Immigrants1
The Role of Financial Technologies in US-Based ISIS Terror Plots1
Keeping the Ex-Enemy Close but Not in My Backyard1
Food, Terrorism, and the Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab Insurgencies1
The October 7, 2023 Attacks and the Maturation of Terrorism Studies1
Negotiating Fundamental Rights: Civil Society and the EU Regulation on Addressing the Dissemination of Terrorist Content Online1
Five Things We Need to Learn About Incel Extremism: Issues, Challenges and Avenues for Fresh Research1
Why Jihadis Switch: Social Ties, Ideological Affinity and Opportunity1
Bombing It: The Meaning and Sources of Suicide Bombing Failure1
Jihad and Heroic Hypermasculinity – Recruitment Strategies, Battlefield Experiences, and Returning Home1
A Front Row Seat at the End of History: In Memoriam David Martin Jones1
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