Terrorism and Political Violence

Papers
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Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits54
The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence49
The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda33
The Mathematics of Political Mayhem: A Computational Model for Predicting Stochastic Violence25
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks23
Exploring the Religious Dimensions of American Far-Right Extremist Discourse20
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups19
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows17
Selective Visibility: How Newsworthiness Shapes Unattributed Violence Across Terrorist Tactics in Open-Source Data15
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults14
The Politics of Jihadist Expansion: Sadiku and “Boko Haram” In Northwestern Nigeria13
The Pathway Model of Radicalization 2.0: Empirical Insights into the Religiously Motivated, Right-Wing and Left-Wing Radicalization Process13
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing12
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles11
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA10
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism10
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology10
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review10
From Waves to Questions: How David Rapoport Shaped My Thinking as a Practitioner & Research as a Scholar9
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan9
Countering ISIS Finances: A New Paradigm of Success8
Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program8
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors8
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups8
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words8
Polarized by Fear: Exploring the Links Between Fear of Terrorism, Ideological Extremity, and Populist Voting8
Mapping the Waves of Terrorism Using Computational Text Analysis7
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Looking at the Current Milieu Through Rapoport’s Four Waves Theory of Modern Terrorism7
The Aftermath: Societal and Political Responses to Jihadist Terrorism7
The Word and the Bullet: Out-Grouping and Threat Framing as Predictors of Islamic State Targeting, 2015–20207
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses7
Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace7
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-20207
A Conversation with Professor Max Taylor6
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 Peels5
From Theory to Policy: The Four Waves and U.S. Counterterrorism5
The Crime-Terrorism Nexus and Jihadist Radicalization in the West: New Data and Interpretative Challenges5
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research5
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives5
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In5
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Legacy of David C. Rapoport5
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)4
What Is Deradicalization? Translating Security Practices in the Maghreb and the Sahel4
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism4
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan4
Religious Political Violence in Early 19th Century America4
Religious Redemption as the Motivation for the Jihadist Crime-Terrorism Nexus: A Critical Inquiry4
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus4
Innovation and Organisational Survival in Terrorist Groups: Evidence from the PKK4
Correction4
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks4
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences4
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants4
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq4
Airport Target-Hardening Fails to Deter Attempted Attacks on Aircraft: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Deterrence and Displacement3
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison3
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims3
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War3
Conceptualizing Election-Related 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
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
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern3
PTSD and Coping Strategies Among Palestinian University Students During Political Violence: A Cross Sectional Study3
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
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy3
Taming the Beast: Democratic Institutions and Terrorist Groups’ Involvement in Civil War2
Sympathy for ISIS Among Political Islamists: The Moderating Role of Institutional Trust2
The Impact of Policy (Il)Legitimacy on Interagency Collaboration and Trust: Differential Impact on CVE Professionals in Denmark2
Psychological Dynamics of Terrorism: Insights from Individuals Exposed to Extremist Activities Embedded in Conflict-Prone Environments2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data2
Islam, State, and Terrorism: A Quantitative Analysis2
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects2
Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia2
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
Gaming and Extremism. The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds2
Riding the Waves: Reimagining Rapoport’s Thesis with Stochastic Terrorist Actors2
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence2
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem2
Seeing through Troubled Water: Proposing a Narrow Focus on Behavioral Warning Signals for the Prevention of Terrorist Violence2
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process2
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru2
David Rapoport Tribute2
A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Stern2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety2
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Anti-Government Extremism: Mitigating the Threat with Procedurally Just Governance2
Countering Counterterrorism: The Impact of Citizenship Revocation on National Security2
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression2
Why They Fight: Ideology and Terrorist Motivation2
Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence: How Internal Brakes Limited Violent Escalation from the Provisional IRA in Pre- and Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland2
Coherence and Performance: European External Action Service and the External Dimension of EU Counterterrorism Policy1
Notes from the Underground: Profiles and Mobilization Dynamics of Pro-Russia Western Fighters in the Donbas—Insights from Italy1
The Impact of Public Holidays on Insurgent Attacks: The Case of Thailand1
Before Boko Haram: Islamic Fundamentalism and Violence in Northern Nigeria1
A Conversation with Professor Martha Crenshaw1
“White Jihad” and “White Sharia”: Jihadism as an Instrument of Intra-Extremist Outbidding among Right-Wing Extremists1
Before the Waves: The Pioneering Early Work of David C. Rapoport1
Crowdsourcing Samples for Research on Violent Extremism: A Research Note1
A Tale of Terror: Autoethnography and the Study of Terrorism1
Stop Cop City!—Understanding the Strategic Choices of Protest Movements1
Support for Political Violence among the American Public: A Split-ballot Experiment1
The (Anti)Feminism of Tradwives1
Extreme Belief and Extreme Behavior in Context: A Response to James Khalil1
How and Why Did Senior Cadres Radicalize and Join the PKK Between 1960 and 1980?1
A Conversation with William Braniff1
Internal Brakes on Political Violence: A Case Study of Dissident Irish Republicanism1
From Local to Regional Spoiler: Hamas as a Case Study of a Multi-Dimensional Spoiler1
How Much Bang for the Buck? Exploring the Effects of Ransom Payments on Terrorist Activity in West Africa1
The New ‘New terrorism’?: Continuity and Change in Temporal Constructions of Violence in the US and UK1
Resisting Terror Civil Action and Non-Violent Resistance to Terrorism in Basque Country1
Older and Wiser: How Terrorist Leaders’ Tenure Influences Tactical Decisions1
In Memory of David C. Rapoport1
Citizens, Extremists, Terrorists: Comparing Radicalized Individuals with the General Population1
Combating the Terrorist Stigma: Communicating Rehabilitation and Reducing Barriers to Reintegration1
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
The Gift of Gab: A Netnographic Examination of the Community Building Mechanisms in Far-Right Online Space1
From Extreme Ideas to Violent and Nonviolent Outcomes: An In-Depth Analysis of Probation Files on Terrorist Suspects in the Netherlands1
Firm Convictions?: Unpicking Framings of Child Terrorism Offenders1
Dying for Sex? Sexual Frustration, Socioeconomic Factors and ISIS Foreign Fighters1
Islamic State in Australia1
“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
Ethical Violence1
Studies on Islamic Extremism and Deradicalization in the Middle East1
Life Difficulties, Violent Online Extremism and Support for Political Violence in the United States1
White Jihad: How White Supremacists Adopt Jihadi Narratives, Aesthetics, and Tactics1
‘Playing the System’: Agency and Everyday Negotiations during LTTE Rule1
Terrorized by Immigration? Threat Perceptions and Policy Preferences1
Typology of Terrorist Profiling Using Centrality Metrics: Hinge Figures, Influential Operatives and Trusted Assets1
Terror, Political Risk, and Effect on Foreign Direct Investment1
Support for Partisan Violence among the Political Fringe: The Case of Antifa and QAnon Supporters1
What Is It to Explain Extremism?0
Analyzing Human Behaviors in the Immediate Aftermath of A Terrorist Bombing: A Multi-Case Analysis0
Unraveling the Radical Flank Effect: The Role of Moderate Organizations in the Face of Radical Flank Violence0
The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?0
Modelling Drivers of Grievance-Fuelled Violence0
Risk and Reward: How Shadow Economies Impact the Financial Practices of Militant Organizations0
Who Becomes a Foreign Fighter? Characteristics of the Islamic State’s Soldiers0
Transparent Communication in Counter-Terrorism Policy: Does Transparency Increase Public Support and Trust in Terrorism Prevention Programmes?0
Envy, Emotional Urgency, and Radicalization: The Impulsive Route is Paved in Malice0
Do Blasphemy Restrictions Restrict Terrorism?0
A Conversation with Peter Neumann0
Hero or Zero? Meta-Opinion in Terrorist Motivation0
Incitement to Violence and Stochastic Terrorism: Legal, Academic, and Practical Parameters for Researchers and Investigators0
Bad Men, Good Men, and Loving Women: Gender Constructions in British State Messaging on Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Violent Extremism0
Determining the Impact of Armed Conflict on Technological Innovation0
Exposure to Violence and Protest Participation: Evidence from Post-Conflict Uganda0
The Role of Basic Psychological Needs in Right-Wing Extremism Risk Among American Conservatives0
Perceptions of Far-Right Extremist Violence as Terrorism: Exploring Influences on Public Perception in the United Kingdom0
“Brothers in Hate”? Hybridization, Convergences and Divisions Between Neo-Nazi Accelerationism and Radical Islam in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict0
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: A Rapid Review to Inform Program and Policy Development0
The Islamic Rational State and New Religious Foundations for an Islamic Liberal Theory0
Ripeness Theory and the Northern Ireland Conflict: The Importance of Providing Militants with a Viable “Exit Strategy”0
Where’s the Sabotage? Repression, Recruitment, and Tactical Evolution in the U.S. Radical Environmental Movement0
Bayesian Inferences for Counterterrorism Policy: A Retrospective Case Study of the U.S. War in Afghanistan0
QAnon Beliefs, Political Radicalization and Support for January 6th Insurrection: A Gendered Perspective0
Operationalizing Terrorism as Makeshift Bombs: The User’s Guide0
Terrorist Financing: Traditional vs. Emerging Financial Technologies0
The Disappeared: The Hidden Victims of Northern Ireland’s Conflict0
The Long Shadow of Violence: Legacies of Civil Wars and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country0
Security Officials’ Perspectives on Reintegration Challenges for Former Al-Shabaab Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Kenya0
“And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles0
How Students and the Public Define Terrorism, and How Education Affects Those Definitions0
“Maybe We Should Just Kill Them All”: Leakings of Lone and Group Perpetrators Prior to Right-Wing Terrorist Attacks0
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Susceptibility to Violent Extremism0
Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa0
Target Hardening and Non-State Armed Groups’ Target Selection: Evidence from India0
The Mobility of Terror: Examining the Decision to Travel or Remain Home in U.S. ISIS Cases from 2014–20250
Cow Slaughter Laws and Violent Vigilantism in the States of India: A Quantitative Analysis0
ISIS’ Propaganda Machine: Global Mediated Terrorism0
Terror through the Looking Glass: Information Orientations and the Lens of Web Search Engines0
Tracking Far-Right Violence Against Indigenous Communities: An Overlooked Problem0
Smuggler, Fighter, Preacher, Spy: Motivational Change and Divergence inside FARC Specialized Fronts0
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: The Brown-Red Cocktail0
Exploring the Impact of Cryptocurrency on Terrorism0
Supreme Gentlemen: The Path of Radicalization for the Incel Community’s Lone Wolves0
From Caliphate to Apostate: Constructivist Discourse Analysis of ISIS Propaganda Framing Turkey as the “Other”0
The Bad Neighbor Problem: Analyzing the Geographic Spread of Terrorism Across Contiguous Border States0
Organize and Fight (Online): Assessing the Discursive Extremism of Anti-Lockdown Groups in Australia0
Christian Nationalism as a Social Practice: Prayer, Violence, and the Politics of Public Ritual0
David C. Rapoport (1929–2024): A Scholar’s Covenant0
Explaining Variation in Foreign Fighter Returnee Pathways0
The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization0
Battle for Allegiance: Governments, Terrorist Groups, and Constituencies in Conflict0
“We Have Successfully Neutralised an Attack”—Historical Case Studies in Terrorism Prevention Through Cooperation0
What Does Sustained Desistance from Violent Extremism Entail: A Proposed Theory of Change and Policy Implications0
Why I Want to Join the Base: Examining Individual-level Motivational Factors in Recruiting Interviews0
How Terrorism Strikes Financial Markets: Evidence from the 1920 Wall Street Bombing0
The Role of Ideology in Terrorist Attack Intentions and Outcomes0
From Impotence to Importance? Connecting Tarrant to the Trans-Tasman (Australia and New Zealand) Extreme Right: A Social Network Analysis0
The Politics of Perception: Political Preference Strongly Associated with Different Perceptions of Islamist and Right-Wing Terrorism Risk0
Basic Psychological Needs and Extremism: Understanding Theories Through Meta-Analysis0
Reflections on David Rapoport and His Four Waves0
Terrorism and the Media: Toward a New Measure of Media-Orientation0
The Emergence of the Incel Community as a Misogyny-Motivated Terrorist Threat0
What Can Economics Contribute to the Study of Terrorism? – The Power and Limitation of Economics0
Power, Signaling, and Credibility: Terrorist Group Alliances and the Bargaining Range for Peace0
A Systematic Review of the Risk and Protective Factors for Processes Associated with Islamist Radicalization and Extremism0
A Conversation with Leonard Weinberg0
Fighting Terror After Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure After 18150
A Conversation with Brigitte Nacos0
How Rigorous are Evaluations of Violent Extremism Prevention Programs? Results from a Systematic Methodological Review0
Power, Perception, Group Relationships, and Conflict Dynamics: Loyalist Paramilitary Violence and Its Effects Within the Republic of Ireland During the Troubles, 1969–19980
Financial Extremism: The Dark Side of Crowdfunding and Terrorism0
Terrorism, Guerrilla, and the Labeling of Militant Groups0
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs with Violence: A Scoping Review of the Empirical Literature0
What Effect does Ideological Extremism have on Mass Shootings? An Assessment of Motivational Inconsistencies, Risk Profiles, and Attack Behaviors0
The Structural Logic of Radicalisation A Cross-National Test of Institutional Contingency in Four European Societies0
A Decade of Media Coverage of the Social Reintegration of Terrorism-Related Convicts: France as a Case Study0
“We Want You!” Applying Social Network Analysis to Online Extremist Communities0
Using Conversion Theory to Explain Western Jihadi Terrorist Radicalization: Case Studies of Mohammed Bouyeri and Mohammad Momin Khawaja0
“Killing All Infidels”: Leaking Prior to Islamist Terrorist Attacks in Germany0
The Prevalence of Terrorist Motives Among Civilians Who Kill Police Officers: A Mixed-Method Analysis0
Cognitive and Behavioral Radicalization: An Explanatory Split?0
Beneath the Silvery Sands: Unravelling the Maldives’ Counterterrorism Policy0
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
Religion, Family Pressure, Life Conditions: Turkish Female Foreign Fighters in Their Own Words0
The Ideology of Incels: Misogyny and Victimhood as Justification for Political Violence0
Name, Shame, and Blame: Terrorist Designation and Peace Negotiations0
Incel Violence and Victimhood: Negotiating Inceldom in Online Discussions of the Plymouth Shooting0
Unpacking Boko Haram Financing in Nigeria0
Supporting Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Contexts: Proposing a 5R Framework to Inform Program and Policy Development0
What’s in a Word? Revisiting the Role of Ideology in the Practice of and Scholarship on Countering Violent Extremism0
Experimenting with Threat: How Cyberterrorism Targeting Critical Infrastructure Influences Support for Surveillance Policies0
Extreme Belief and Extreme Behavior Reconsidered: A Response to Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko0
Investigating the Role of Morality in Lone-Actor Terrorist Motivations and Attack Severity0
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
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo: Variations in Civilian Targeting by Militant Groups0
Martyrdom as a Mask: Unveiling Symbolic Violence in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Civil War Aftermath0
Islamic Perspectives on International Conflict Resolution: Theological Debates and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process0
Distinguishing Violent and Non-violent Criminal Extremists Based on Risk and Protective Factors0
Decoding Daesh: Reactive Secrecy Strategies and Online Evasion Techniques in the ‘Virtual Caliphate’0
Militant Leadership and Terrorism in Armed Conflict0
Examining Radicalization Using a Game Paradigm: The Opponent Immersion Game0
Synergies between “Hard” and “Soft” Interventions Against Online Extremism: An Agent‑Based Simulation and Cost–Benefit Analysis0
Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis0
Breaking the Bank: Effects of Domestic Conflict on the Banking Sector in Turkey0
Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community0
Understanding Involvement in Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Theoretical Integration through the ABC Model0
A Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodologically Based Instrument to Assess the Risk of Violent Jihadist Radicalization in Prisons: The DRAVY-30
“All the World’s a Cage”: A Cinematic Analysis of Hamas’s Hostage Videos as Part of its Psychological Warfare Effort During the Post-October 7 Gaza War (October 2023–Spring 2025)0
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