Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

Article	Citations
Blueprints for Red Insurgencies: Revolutionary Ideology and Strategy in India and Colombia	29
Fighting over International Legitimacy: Testing Israel’s Image War Strategies During the 2023–24 War Between Hamas and Israel	22
Financing of Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as a Case Study	21
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	17
Supply and Demand: Drivers of Women Non-Combat Participation in Rebel Groups	16
Complicating Convergence: A Micro-Ethnography of Neo-Fascist Accelerationist Views of Militant Islam on Terrorgram	13
How Governments Ensure the Loyalty of Pro-Government Militias: Evidence from Chechnya	12
Policing of the Far-Right Online: The Cases of the UK and Hungary	12
The Elusive Promise of “Over-the-Horizon” Counterterrorism	11
How Proximity and Space Matter: Exploring Geographical & Social Contexts of Radicalization in Northern Ireland	11
“ 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?	11
The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement	10
Conventional Insurgents: Understanding al-Shabaab’s Mass Attacks against African Union Bases in Somalia	10
The Social Identity Analytical Method: Facilitating Social Science-Based Practitioner Analysis of Violent Substate Conflict	9
Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales	9
Exploring the Motivation of the United Kingdom’s Domestic Extremist Informants	9
Gender, Agency, and Accountability for ISIS Violence: Public Perspectives from Mosul, Iraq	9
Special Issue on Radical and Militant Islamism in Indonesia	8
Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock	8
Online and Social Media News Usage, Conspiratorial Attitudes and Fear of Terrorism	8
Maintaining Course or Righting the Ship? Examining Adjustments in Al-Qaeda’s Communicative Approach	8
Post-Fordism and the Transformation of Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism	8
Rebel Recruitment and Governance: Examining the Relationship Between Mobilization Strategies and the Provision of Social Services to Civilians	8
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days	8
“The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo”: Exploring Israel’s Counter-Militancy Efforts against Sinai Peninsula-Based Threats	8

From Superiority to Supremacy: Exploring the Vulnerability of Military and Police Special Forces to Extreme Right Radicalization	7
Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited	7
Outbreak: A Comprehensive Analysis of Biological Terrorism♦	7
Research Note: Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An in-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files	7
How Members of the Islamic State-Linked Ripoll Cell Grouped, Radicalized and Plotted Mass Casualty Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona	7
The Logic of Non-State Armed Groups Survival in Syria: A Contemporary Framework of Analysis	7
Remembering a Road: How One U.S. Development Project Provides Insight into America’s Complicated Legacy in Afghanistan	7
Reasons behind Reasons: A Communitarian Reading of Women’s Radicalization and Family Bombings in Southeast Asia	6
Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation	6
Women in Militant Movements: The Role of the State in Driving Recruitment	6
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from an Insurgent Group to a Local Authority: Emergence, Development and Social Support Base	6
Is the U.S. Heading for a Civil War? Scenarios for 2024-25	6
The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks	5
Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria	5
Reassessing Core Perceptions of Evolving Threats Following the October 7th Attacks	5
Maintaining Dominance: Explaining the Rise of Late-Entering Insurgent Groups in El Salvador and Guatemala	5
What Do Overrepresented and Underrepresented Groups Tell Us About Risks for Involvement in Islamist Extremism?	5
Real or Imagined Consolidation? The Case of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces	5
Community, More than Conviction: Understanding Radicalisation Factors for Young People in Australia	4
Time to Bear Arms: An Exploration of Time Suspensions Between Lone Mass Shooting Attacks in the US and When the Perpetrator Acquired Their Weapons	4
How Do Offender Ideology and Offense Severity Impact Punitive Attitudes Toward Politically Motivated Offenders in the U.S.?	4
Developing a Responsive Regulatory Approach to Online Terrorist Content on Tech Platforms	4
The Effects of Social Media, Elites, and Political Polarization on Civil Conflict	4
“Among the World’s Most Powerful”: Analyzing the Evolution of Iran’s Cyber Espionage, Disruption, and Information Operations Capabilities	4
Blended Legacies : Vietnamese and Other Foreign Influences on the FARC-EP	4
The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism	4
Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion	4
Beyond “Leaderless Resistance”? Toward a Typology for White Supremacist Extremist Leadership	4
Masculinities and Disengagement from Jihadi Networks: The Case of Indonesian Militant Islamists	4
Warscapes and Reticulating Inhumanities: Ethnographic Lessons from Shia Militancy	4
Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security	4
We Protect Us: Cyber Persistent Digital Antifascism and Dual Use Knowledge	4
Foreign Military Aid, War-Induced Economy, and Terrorism in Afghanistan	4
Postage Stamps as Political and Religious Propaganda: The Case of Hamas	4
Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism	3
The Crime-Terror Nexus and the Illicit Trade in Drugs	3
Queering Terrorism	3
3D-Printed Firearms: Global Proliferation Trends and Analyses	3
From Democratic Resistance to Hostility against a “Covid-Regime” – Conspiracy Theories as Cross-Milieu Catalysts of Radicalization	3
The “Lightning” Brigade: Security Force Assistance and the Fight Against al-Shabaab	3
The Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s Quasi-State Agent of Influence	3
Spurious Correlations in Terrorism Studies	3
Ulsterisation vs De-Baathification: Precedents in Local Security During Counterinsurgency	3
Operation Jungle Fire: The Consolidation of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy	3
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board	3
The Kurdish Protection Units in Northern Syria: A Deviant Case of Peaceful Cohabitation between Foreign Fighters and Local Civilians?	3
Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia	3
Radicalization Discourse: Consensus Points, Evidence Base and Blind Spots	3
Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies	3
From Mobilization to Annihilation: The Strategic Logics of Bioterrorism	2

Red Pill Stories: British Neo-Nazis’ Narratives of Radicalization	2
Recommendations for Assessing Vulnerabilities in Soft Targets and Crowded Places	2
The Evolution of Far-Right Terrorist Tactics and Targeting	2
Beyond Healthy Skepticism: Exploring German News Media Framing of Terrorism-Affiliated Women Returnees	2
Eco-Fascism Online: Conceptualizing Far-Right Actors’ Response to Climate Change on Stormfront	2
From the PYD-YPG to the SDF: the Consolidation of Power in Kurdish-Controlled Northeast Syria	2
Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers That Correspond to Strategic Changes	2
Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions	2
Anatomy of Terrorist Cells: A Critical Examination and Identified Gaps in Current Research	2
The Ideology That Binds Us: Homophily in Ideology and Terrorists Collaborations	2
The European Union as a Maritime Security Provider – The Naval Diplomacy Perspective	2
Jihadist Ideological Conflict and Local Governance in Mali	2
Outsourcing Terror: How the Islamic State Tried to Spread Terrorism to Neighboring Jordan	2
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists	2
Countering the Financing of Terrorists’ Salaries	2
The Devil is in the Detail: Assessing Threat-Framing in Violent Extremist Discourses	2
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate	2
The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents	2
Under the Hood – Learning and Innovation in the Islamic State’s Suicide Vehicle Industry	2
Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems	2
From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships	2
The “Disaster Business”: Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking	2
The Islamic State’s Visions of Political Community and Statehood and Their Articulation Vis-à-Vis Nationalism	2
Down the “Rabbit Hole” of Conspiracy-Fueled White Nationalism: Linking Outgroup Threat and Uncertainty to Conspiracy Beliefs and Prejudice Toward Immigrants	2
From Black to White Flags: The Resurgence of Extremist Groups in Post-ISIS Iraq	2
Violent Extremism in Bima, Indonesia: Radical Milieu and Peacebuilding Efforts	2
Counter-Terrorism: The Risk of Performativity in Big Data-Based Mass Surveillance	2
The Growth of Narco-Terrorism in Mexico: Expanding The Counternarcotic Strategy with Foreign Terrorist Designation	2
Gaza’s Subterranean Warfare: Palestinian Resistance Tunnels vs. Israel’s Military Strategy	2
Networks, Marriage, and Socioeconomics: Comparing the Men and Women of the Islamic State	2
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else?	2
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Terrorism: A Systematic Review of the Literature	2
Risk of Romani Radicalization in the Balkans: Freeing the Shackles of a Marginalized Identity	2
The False Promise of Foreign Fighters: The Effect of Somali Foreign Fighters on Civilian Victimization	2
Nonviolent Criminal Radicalization in the Community: Understanding Identity Factors Shaping Far-Right Extremism	2
State Legitimacy and Counterinsurgency: A Comparative Perspective	2
Social Cohesion and Collective Violence: Latent Variable Approach to Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem	2
Discussing Terrorism in the Classroom – Adopting an Empathizing and Historical Perspective: A Research Note	2
The Gig Economy: A New Lens for Understanding Domestic Violent Extremism	1
Fighting against Jihad? Blood Revenge and Anti-Insurgent Mobilization in Jihadist Civil Wars	1
“It Wasn’t Because of Human Rights:” Exploring the Limited Use of Landmines by Colombian Paramilitary Groups	1
In Memorium—Peter Chalk, October 16, 1967–June 20, 2025	1
The Impact of Diasporas on the Tactics of Rebel Groups: The Case of the IRA and Noraid	1
Trends in Terrorism Research and Publications (2010–2023): A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Authorship, Thematic and Methodological Shifts	1
The Intersection between Islamic Populism and Radicalism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of Aksi Bela Islam Movement	1
The Model Muslim Minority: Wasatiyah (Justly-Balanced) as a Counter-Ideology Tool in Singapore	1
The Other Dark Side of Pro-Government Militias: Deterring Nonviolent Action and Spoiling Prospects for Peace During Civil Wars	1
Social Cleavages and Armed Group Consolidation: The Case of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces	1
Introduction to Special Issue: The Practicalities and Complexities of (Regulating) Online Terrorist Content Moderation	1
Negotiating Fundamental Rights: Civil Society and the EU Regulation on Addressing the Dissemination of Terrorist Content Online	1
White Warriors and Weak Women: Identifying Central Discourses of Masculinity in Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels	1
Jihad and Heroic Hypermasculinity – Recruitment Strategies, Battlefield Experiences, and Returning Home	1
Dead Sheep Tell No Tales: Aum Shinrikyo’s Alleged Sarin Tests in Australia Never Happened	1
Radical Feminist Rhetoric and Terrorism: The May 19th Communist Organization	1
How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power	1
And the Last Straw Falls: The Cumulative Influence of Disillusionment among Former Viet Cong Insurgents	1
When Transnationalism is not Global: Dynamics of Armed Transnational Shi‘a Islamist Groups	1
Nothing in Common? Analysis of Moral, Psychological, and Social Factors in the Identity Construction of Far-Right and Violent Jihadi Extremists	1
Does Martialization Contribute to Australia’s Right-Wing Extremism? Implications of an Analysis of the General Social Survey	1
The Constraints Hypothesis: Rethinking Causality in Deradicalisation, Disengagement and Reintegration Pathways. A Complex Systems Perspective	1
GIFCT Tech Trials: Combining Behavioural Signals to Surface Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online	1
Keeping the Ex-Enemy Close but Not in My Backyard	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
Five Things We Need to Learn About Incel Extremism: Issues, Challenges and Avenues for Fresh Research	1
A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Foreign Fighters Traveling to Syria and Iraq	1
Safety-Level Victories for Democratic States in Warfare Against Hybrid Non-State Terror Actors	1
The Frontlines Have Shifted: Explaining the Persistence of Pro-State Militias after Civil War	1
Territorial Control and the Militarization of Violent Non-State Actors: Transformation, Opportunities, and Vulnerabilities	1
Rights and Values in Counter-Terrorism Online	1
Community Legitimisation of Irish Republican Paramilitarism in Belfast: A Criminological Understanding	1
Between Containment and Degrading: Tracing U.S. Policy toward Africa through Strategic Transformations in AFRICOM’s Counter-Terrorism Approach	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
Virtual and Physical Realities: Violent Extremists’ Recruitment of Individuals Associated with the US Military	1
Palestinian Lone Assailants, 2015–2023: Suicide, Legitimacy Communities and Duped Attackers	1
Why Jihadis Switch: Social Ties, Ideological Affinity and Opportunity	1
Exiting the Manosphere. A Gendered Analysis of Radicalization, Diversion and Deradicalization Narratives from r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill	1
Fight or Hide: Why Organized Criminal Groups Go to War with the State	1
Influences of Islamist Radicalization: A Configurational Analysis of Balkan Foreign Fighters in Syria	1
Food, Terrorism, and the Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab Insurgencies	1
A Front Row Seat at the End of History: In Memoriam David Martin Jones	1

The Relationship between Existential Anxiety, Political Efficacy, Extrinsic Religiosity and Support for Violent Extremism in Indonesia	1
“The Non-Combatant on the ‘Front Line’: British Servicewomen During the Troubles in Northern Ireland”	1
Nervos Belli or Economic Resources as Determinants of Terrorist Activity: The Case of ETA (1967–2010)	1
The October 7, 2023 Attacks and the Maturation of Terrorism Studies	1
Is There a Language of Terrorists? A Comparative Manifesto Analysis	1
An Exploratory Thematic Analysis of the Decision Challenges Faced by Emergency Responders During the 2017 Manchester Arena Attack	1
Strategies of Armed Group Consolidation in the Afghan Civil War (1989–2001)	1
The Role of Financial Technologies in US-Based ISIS Terror Plots	1
Practices and Needs in Reintegration Programs for Violent Extremist Offenders in the United States: The Probation Officer Perspective	1
Civil-Military Relations and Civilian Victimization in Civil War	1
Understanding Qatar’s Relationship with Hamas: A Critical Exploration of State Sponsored Terrorism	1