Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Article	Citations
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 Studies	25
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	23
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	14
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	13
Examining the Outcome of Investigations and Prosecutions of Extremism in the United States	12
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia	12
Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy	11
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	11
Violent and Nonviolent Strategies of Terrorist Organizations: How Do Mixed Strategies Influence Terrorist Recruitment and Lethality?	11
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	10
Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism	10
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland	9
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	9
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq	8
Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales	8
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants	8
“ 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 Days	8
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	8
Post-Fordism and the Transformation of Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism	7
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict	7
Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited	6
Remembering a Road: How One U.S. Development Project Provides Insight into America’s Complicated Legacy in Afghanistan	6
Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock	6
“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats	6

Maintaining Course or Righting the Ship? Examining Adjustments in Al-Qaeda’s Communicative Approach	6
Online and Social Media News Usage, Conspiratorial Attitudes and Fear of Terrorism	6
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia	6
Research Note: Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files	5
How Members of the Islamic State-Linked Ripoll Cell Grouped, Radicalized and Plotted Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona	5
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	5
From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization	5
The Logic of Non-State Armed Groups Survival in Syria: A Contemporary Framework of Analysis	5
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment	5
Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism♦	5
Reasons behind Reasons: A Communitarian Reading of Women’s Radicalization and Family Bombings in Southeast Asia	5
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?	4
The (Non) Deus-Ex Machina: A Realistic Assessment of Machine Learning for Countering Domestic Terrorism	4
Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria	4
Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation	4
Real or Imagined Consolidation? The Case of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces	4
Maintaining Dominance: Explaining the Rise of Late-Entering Insurgent Groups in El Salvador and Guatemala	4
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from an Insurgent Group to a Local Authority: Emergence, Development and Social Support Base	4
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion	3
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks	3
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists	3
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	3
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	3
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	3
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	3
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	3
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism	3
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	3
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	3
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	3
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	3
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	3
The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data	3
Emotional Trials in Terrorism Research: Running Risks When Accessing Salafi-Jihadist Foreign Fighter Returnees and Their Social Milieu	3
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	3
Time to Bear Arms: An Exploration of Time Suspensions Between Lone Mass Shooting Attacks in the US and When the Perpetrator Acquired Their Weapons	3
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	3
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia	3
The Evolution of Far-Right Terrorist Tactics and Targeting	2
From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships	2
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate	2
Risk of Romani Radicalization in the Balkans: Freeing the Shackles of a Marginalized Identity	2
Under the Hood – Learning and Innovation in the Islamic State’s Suicide Vehicle Industry	2
The Kurdish Protection Units in Northern Syria: A Deviant Case of Peaceful Cohabitation between Foreign Fighters and Local Civilians?	2
Countering Violent Islamist Extremism in Muslim Mindanao the 4M Way: The Role of Alternative Narratives	2
Operation Jungle Fire: The Consolidation of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy	2
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	2
From the PYD-YPG to the SDF: the Consolidation of Power in Kurdish-Controlled Northeast Syria	2
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists	2

The European Union as a Maritime Security Provider – The Naval Diplomacy Perspective	2
Legitimation through Collectivization: Al Qaeda and US Discourses on the Use of Force	2
Countering the Financing of Terrorists’ Salaries	2
Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems	2
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots	2
Counter-Terrorism: The Risk of Performativity in Big Data-Based Mass Surveillance	2
The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents	2
The “Lightning” Brigade: Security Force Assistance and the Fight Against al-Shabaab	2
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies	2
The False Promise of Foreign Fighters: The Effect of Somali Foreign Fighters on Civilian Victimization	2
A Peaceful Interpretation of Jihad in the Qur’an	2
Exposure to Extremist Content and Public Sympathy for ISIS	2
The “Disaster Business”: Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking	2
Networks, Marriage, and Socioeconomics: Comparing the Men and Women of the Islamic State	2
Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions	2
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else?	2
Eco-Fascism Online: Conceptualizing Far-Right Actors’ Response to Climate Change on Stormfront	2
A Downward Spiral: The Role of Hegemonic Masculinity in Lone Actor Terrorism	2
The Fast & The Furious…Torturous? : Examining the Impact of Torture Scenes in Popular Films on Public Perceptions of Torture Policy	2
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies	2
A Witch’s Brew of Grievances: The Potential Effects of COVID-19 on Radicalization to Violent Extremism	2
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes	2
Queering Terrorism	2
The Devil is in the Detail: Assessing Threat-Framing in Violent Extremist Discourses	2
Blowin’ in the Wind? The Musical Response to the War on Terror	2
Gaza’s Subterranean Warfare: Palestinian Resistance Tunnels vs. Israel’s Military Strategy	2
Down the “Rabbit Hole” of Conspiracy-Fueled White Nationalism: Linking Outgroup Threat and Uncertainty to Conspiracy Beliefs and Prejudice Toward Immigrants	1
Nervos Belli or Economic Resources as Determinants of Terrorist Activity: The Case of ETA (1967–2010)	1
Recommendations for Assessing Vulnerabilities in Soft Targets and Crowded Places	1
Rights and Values in Counter-Terrorism Online	1
Between Containment and Degrading: Tracing U.S. Policy toward Africa through Strategic Transformations in AFRICOM’s Counter-Terrorism Approach	1
From Rebelling to Ruling: Insurgent Victory and State Capture in Africa	1
The Model Muslim Minority: Wasatiyah (Justly-Balanced) as a Counter-Ideology Tool in Singapore	1
The Intersection between Islamic Populism and Radicalism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of Aksi Bela Islam Movement	1
A Front Row Seat at the End of History: In Memoriam David Martin Jones	1
The Impact of Diasporas on the Tactics of Rebel Groups: The Case of the IRA and Noraid	1
Identifying Key Players in Violent Extremist Networks: Using Socio-Semantic Network Analysis as Part of a Program of Content Moderation	1
Virtual and Physical Realities: Violent Extremists’ Recruitment of Individuals Associated with the US Military	1
Jihad and Heroic Hypermasculinity – Recruitment Strategies, Battlefield Experiences, and Returning Home	1
How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power	1
Mechanisms of 3N Model on Radicalization: Testing the Mediation by Group Identity and Ideology of the Relationship between Need for Significance and Violent Extremism	1
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 Ideology That Binds Us: Homophily in Ideology and Terrorists Collaborations	1
A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Foreign Fighters Traveling to Syria and Iraq	1
State Legitimacy and Counterinsurgency: A Comparative Perspective	1
When Transnationalism is not Global: Dynamics of Armed Transnational Shi‘a Islamist Groups	1
Violent Extremism in Bima, Indonesia: Radical Milieu and Peacebuilding Efforts	1
From Mobilization to Annihilation: The Strategic Logics of Bioterrorism	1
The Frontlines Have Shifted: Explaining the Persistence of Pro-State Militias after Civil War	1
Palestinian Lone Assailants, 2015–2023: Suicide, Legitimacy Communities and Duped Attackers	1
Radical Feminist Rhetoric and Terrorism: The May 19th Communist Organization	1
Food, Terrorism, and the Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab Insurgencies	1
Introduction to Special Issue: The Practicalities and Complexities of (Regulating) Online Terrorist Content Moderation	1
Fragile States, Technological Capacity, and Increased Terrorist Activity	1
Innovating to Survive, a Look at How Extremists Adapt to Counterterrorism	1
Safety-Level Victories for Democratic States in Warfare Against Hybrid Non-State Terror Actors	1
Why Jihadis Switch: Social Ties, Ideological Affinity and Opportunity	1
“The Non-Combatant on the ‘Front Line’: British Servicewomen During the Troubles in Northern Ireland”	1
Dead Sheep Tell No Tales: Aum Shinrikyo’s Alleged Sarin Tests in Australia Never Happened	1
And the Last Straw Falls: The Cumulative Influence of Disillusionment among Former Viet Cong Insurgents	1
Five Things We Need to Learn About Incel Extremism: Issues, Challenges and Avenues for Fresh Research	1
Social Cohesion and Collective Violence: Latent Variable Approach to Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem	1
Fighting against Jihad? Blood Revenge and Anti-Insurgent Mobilization in Jihadist Civil Wars	1
The Islamic State’s Visions of Political Community and Statehood and Their Articulation Vis-à-Vis Nationalism	1
The Relationship between Existential Anxiety, Political Efficacy, Extrinsic Religiosity and Support for Violent Extremism in Indonesia	1
Jihadist Ideological Conflict and Local Governance in Mali	1
Discussing Terrorism in the Classroom – Adopting an Empathizing and Historical Perspective: A Research Note	1
White Warriors and Weak Women: Identifying Central Discourses of Masculinity in Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels	1
Beyond Healthy Skepticism: Exploring German News Media Framing of Terrorism-Affiliated Women Returnees	1
On Theory and Practice of No-Fly Zones in Humanitarian Intervention	1
A Crime Script Analysis of Violent and Nonviolent Extremists	1
Negotiating Fundamental Rights: Civil Society and the EU Regulation on Addressing the Dissemination of Terrorist Content Online	1
GIFCT Tech Trials: Combining Behavioural Signals to Surface Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online	1
The Role of Financial Technologies in US-Based ISIS Terror Plots	1
Female Combatants and Durability of Civil War	1
The Relationship between of Moral Injury and Radicalisation: A Systematic Review	1
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 Programs	1
Bombing It: The Meaning and Sources of Suicide Bombing Failure	1
Is There a Language of Terrorists? A Comparative Manifesto Analysis	1
Practices and Needs in Reintegration Programs for Violent Extremist Offenders in the United States: The Probation Officer Perspective	1

Community Legitimisation of Irish Republican Paramilitarism in Belfast: A Criminological Understanding	1
Strategies of Armed Group Consolidation in the Afghan Civil War (1989–2001)	1
Civil-Military Relations and Civilian Victimization in Civil War	1
The Other Dark Side of Pro-Government Militias: Deterring Nonviolent Action and Spoiling Prospects for Peace During Civil Wars	1
Barriers to Entry to Jihadist Activism on the Internet	1
Exiting the Manosphere. A Gendered Analysis of Radicalization, Diversion and Deradicalization Narratives from r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill	1
Anatomy of Terrorist Cells: A Critical Examination and Identified Gaps in Current Research	1