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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Learning Theory and Racial Extremist Ideologies: Differing Learning Processes for Youth/Young Adults Compared to Older Adults	35
Mobilizing for Jihad: How Political Exclusion and Organized Protest Contribute to Foreign Fighter Outflows	27
Exploring the Intersection of Environmental Events and Domestic Political Violence in the United States	27
Image Content Indicators of Extremist Group Evolution: A Comparative Study of MENA-Based and Far-Right Groups	23
New Currents in the Middle East	23
Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS	17
The Relational Dimension of Radicalization: Context and Tie Formation in Dutch Salafi-Jihadi Networks	17
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing	15
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits	13
Losing Hearts and Minds: Civil Conflict, Counterinsurgency Policing and Postwar Crime in Insurgent Strongholds	13
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review	12
The Rhetoric of Radicalism: The Anti-Colonial Inspiration Behind Osama bin Laden’s Ideology	12
Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles	11
Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups	11
Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA	11
Racist and Anti-diversity Attitudes as Predictors of Support for Political Violence among Supporters of Mainstream Political Parties	10
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism	10
Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program	9
How do Militant Organizations Respond to Counterterrorism? Introducing the LIVE Typology, with Examples from Proscription in Pakistan	9
Climate Migration: Adding Fuel to the Ethnocentric Fire	8
“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization	8
Foreign Fighter Mobilization: YPG Volunteers in Their Own Words	8
Time Is of the Essence: Temporality and Competition as Drivers of Terrorist Credit-Taking	8
Silver Lining? The Effects of Epidemics on Terrorist Groups	8
Social Ties and Jihadist Participation: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Differential Recruitment of Radicalized Youth in Spain	8

Ceasefires: Stopping the Violence and Negotiating Peace	7
Elections and Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany from 2014-2020	7
The Origins of International Counterterrorism: Switzerland at the Forefront of Crisis Negotiations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Intelligence Cooperation (1969-1977)	7
Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses	7
When Home Disappears: South Asia and the Growing Risk of Climate Conflict	7
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework: Analyzing the Modus Operandi of Systems of Non-State Actors	7
When Do Radical Flanks Use Violence? Conditions for Violent Protest in Radical Left-Libertarian Activism in Sweden, 1997–2016	6
Portugal’s Forgotten Overseas Wars in the 20th Century	6
A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Why the World Failed to Stop Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, and How to Defeat Terrorists	6
The Radical Redemption Model: Terrorist Beliefs and Narratives	6
Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All In	6
Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research	6
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War	6
Theories of Civilian Victimization: Constraint, Control, or Contestation? Evidence from Afghanistan	5
Correction	5
Boko Haram’s Child Soldiers: Media Mujahids, Martyrs, and Militants	5
Success or Shirking in Terror: Control Mechanisms in State Sponsored Terrorism	5
Public Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism Experiences	5
South Sudan’s Injustice System. Law and Activism on the Frontline	5
Measuring the Potential for Hateful Behaviours: Development and Validation of the Hate Behaviours Scale (HBS)	5
Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus	5
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison	4
Lethal Beliefs: Ideology and the Lethality of Terrorist Organizations	4
What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates	4
To Be Experienced or Not? Unpacking the Relationship between Leader Tenure and Counterinsurgency Efforts	4
Perceived Policy Illegitimacy Leads to Acceptance of Political Violence: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Experiment in Denmark	4
Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism	4
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques	4
Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern	4
Part-Time Foreign Jihadist Fighters in the Syrian Civil War	4
Predicting Novel Terrorism: Media Coverage as Early-Warning System of Novelty in Terror Attacks	4
Conceptualizing Election-Related Violence	4
Retribution versus Rehabilitation for Children within Insurgency: Public Attitudes Toward ISIS-Affiliated Youth in Mosul, Iraq	4
The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists	3
White Jihad: Fused Extremism?	3
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Spiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism	3
Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices	3
Longevity of Partnering Terrorist Organization: An Empirical Study Using A Network Diffusion Model	3
(De)legitimization of Private Soldiers without Legal Status: The Case of Ukraine	3
Does Incapacitation Effectively Deter the Occurrence of Terror Attacks? Israel as a Case Study	3
Targeting Taxonomy and Patterns of Political Violence in Stable Societies: Evidence from the Far Right in Italy	3
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists	3
Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Groups	3
Silent Sympathy: News Attention, Subtle Support for Far-Right Extremism, and Negative Attitudes Toward Muslims	3
Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland	3
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
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger	3
The Ulster Tales: A Tribute to Those Who Served 1969–2000	3
Regime Type of Foreign Supporters of Resistance Movements and its Impact on State Repression	3
Inequality and Radicalisation: Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies	2

Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence	2
Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects	2
Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data	2
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in ISIS’s Online Magazine, Dabiq	2
Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror	2
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy	2
U.S. Homegrown Political Violence and Terrorism	2
Islamic Extremism and CBRN Terrorism	2
Never-Ending War on Terror	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
The Violence of Peace: Post Good Friday Agreement Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland	2
Deterring Terrorism: A Model for Strategic Deterrence	2
Why Do Online Countering Violent Extremism Strategies Not Work? The Case of Digital Jihad	2
“What Made Me Change”: Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process	2
Reluctant Spies: The Role of Neighbourhood Leaders in Indonesia’s PVE Strategy	2
The Role of Honeypots and Sabotage in State-Based Operations Against Online Jihadism, 2001-2020	2
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety	2
Gaming and Extremism. The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds	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
Why do Insurgents Target Religion? The Case of Shining Path in Peru	2
Local Conditions for Anti-immigrant Violence: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Asylum Housing Attacks in Sweden	2
Urban Terrorism in the Arab World: Introducing a Dataset of Jihadist Attack Plots in Jordan	2
Hate Crime in Northern Ireland: The Need for Legislation and a Bespoke Version of the Prevent Strategy	2
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem	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
How to Make Sense of it All: A Feasibility Study of Meaning-Centered Interventions in Deradicalization Counseling	2
Countering Terrorist Narratives: Assessing the Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change in Counter-narrative Strategies	2
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Anti-Government Extremism: Mitigating the Threat with Procedurally Just Governance	2