Perspectives on Terrorism
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Perspectives on Terrorism is the peer-reviewed online journal of the Terrorism Research Initiative and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

117 Results

Anti-Government Extremism: A New Threat?

1 December 2022

Pathways to radicalisation

Terms and Definitions

What Is Anti-Government Extremism?

1 December 2022

Terms and Definitions

Uncharted Territory: Towards an Evidence-Based Criminology of Sovereign Citizens Through a Systematic Literature Review

1 December 2022

Pathways to radicalisation

Driven by Conspiracies: The Justification of Violence among “Reichsbürger” and Other Conspiracy-Ideological Sovereignists in Contemporary Germany

1 December 2022

The QAnon Security Threat: A Linguistic Fusion-Based Violence Risk Assessment

1 December 2022

Online Terrorist Recruitment

Patterns and Consequences of Threats Towards Politicians: Results from Surveys of National and Local Politicians in Norway

1 December 2022

The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): An Update on Data Collection and Results

17 February 2022

De-radicalisation

International Links and the Role of the Islamic State in the Barcelona and Cambrils Attacks in 2017

10 February 2022

The Dead Drops of Online Terrorism: How Jihadists Use Anonymous Online Platforms

9 February 2022

Causes of radicalisation

Online Terrorist Recruitment

Stochastic Terrorism: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis

9 February 2022

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

Pathways to radicalisation

Evidence to Explain Violent Extremist Communication: A Systematic Review of Individual-Level Empirical Studies

8 February 2022

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

Frictional Security Governance: Policing the Crime-Terror Nexus in Denmark

7 February 2022

De-radicalisation

Policy documents

Connecting, Competing, and Trolling: “User Types” in Digital Gamified Radicalization Processes

3 February 2022

Pathways to radicalisation

Counter-Terrorism as a Public Policy: Theoretical Insights and Broader Reflections on the State of Counter-Terrorism Research

2 February 2022

Discussions on Policy

From Spandau to Guantanamo: Prisons as Propaganda Instruments for Extremists and Terrorists

28 January 2022

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

The Long-Term Impacts of Attacks: The Case of the July 22, 2011 Attacks in Norway

26 January 2022

Consensus or Conflict? A Survey Analysis of How Norwegians Interpret the July 22, 2011 Attacks a Decade Later

24 January 2022

Breivik’s Long Shadow? The Impact of the July 22, 2011 Attacks on the Modus Operandi of Extreme-right Lone Actor Terrorists

20 January 2022

Monster or Hero? Far-right Responses to Anders Behring Breivik and the July 22, 2011 Terrorist Attacks

18 January 2022

Understanding the Motivations of “Lone Wolf” Terrorists: The “Bathtub” Model

14 January 2022

The Devil’s in the Details—or Is He? The Ethics and Politics of Terrorism Data

12 January 2022

Policy recommendations

US Extremism on Telegram: Fueling Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and Accelerationism

10 January 2022

Preventing Violent Extremism the Lebanese Way: A Critical Analysis of the Lebanese PVE Strategy

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

De-radicalisation

Discussions on Policy

Radical Beings? How Group Identities Impact Willingness to Justify Terrorism

Violence and Restraint within Antifa: A View from the United States

Terms and Definitions

Network vs. Network: Countering Crime-Terror by Combining the Strengths of Law Enforcement, Military and Academia

De-radicalisation

Counterterrorism in the Philippines: Review of Key Issues

Climate Change - Terrorism Nexus? A Preliminary Review/ Analysis of the Literature

Bringing Religiosity Back In: Critical Reflection on the Explanation of Western Homegrown Religious Terrorism (Part I)

Causes of radicalisation

Is Youth Unemployment Related to Domestic Terrorism?

Causes of radicalisation

On the Permissibility of Homicidal Violence: Perspectives from Former U.S. White Supremacists

Pathways to radicalisation

More Grist to the Mill? Reciprocal Radicalisation and Reactions to Terrorism in the Far-Right Digital Milieu

Right-Wing Terror: A Fifth Global Wave?

Terrorism and COVID-19: Actual and Potential Impacts

Detecting Future ‘Marawis’: Considering Alternative Indicators for Assessing the Potential for New Manifestations of Violent Extremism in Mindanao

Online Deceptions: Renegotiating Gender Boundaries on ISIS Telegram

Learning in a Double Loop: The Strategic Transformation of Al-Qaeda

The Threat of Transnational Terrorist Groups in Kashmir

Converging Patterns in Pathways in and out of Violent Extremism: Insights from Former Canadian Right-Wing Extremists

24 January 2020

Benevolent Radicalization: An Antidote to Terrorism

18 September 2019

Knowing What to Do: Academic and Practitioner Understanding of How to Counter Violent Radicalization

De-radicalisation

Call of Duty: Jihad – How the Video Game Motif Has Migrated Downstream from Islamic State Propaganda Videos

The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): Examining Recidivism Rates for Post-9/11 Offenders

The Hand that Feeds the Salafist: an Exploration of the Financial Independence of 131 Dutch Jihadi Travellers

Tackling Terrorism’s Taboo: Shame

The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): Examining Recidivism Rates for Post-9/11 Offenders

Mapping Transnational Extremist Networks: An Exploratory Study of the Soldiers of Odin’s Facebook Network, Using Integrated Social Network Analysis

A “Lunatic Fringe”? The Persistence of Right Wing Extremism in Australia

Background and Preparatory Behaviours of Right-Wing Extremist Lone Actors: A Comparative Study

Understanding Muslims’ Support for Suicide Bombing in West Africa: A Replication Study

Ideological Infighting in the Islamic State

30 Terrorism Databases and Data Sets: a New Inventory

27 February 2019

Migration, Transnational Crime and Terrorism: Exploring the Nexus in Europe and Southeast Asia

The Strategic Communication Power of Terrorism: The Case of ETA

21 December 2018

Theory-Testing Uyghur Terrorism in China

14 December 2018

The Derna Mujahideen Shura Council: A Revolutionary Islamist Coalition in Libya

7 December 2018

Headhunting Among Extremist Organizations: An Empirical Assessment of Talent Spotting

A Response to Jacob Zenn on Boko Haram and al-Qa‘ida

Tackling Terrorism’s Taboo: Shame

Spaces, Ties, and Agency: The Formation of Radical Networks

Reconsidering Radicalization: Fanaticism and the Link Between Ideas and Violence

Radicalisation: A Subtype of Religious Conversion?

Black-boxing the Black Flag: Anonymous Sharing Platforms and ISIS Content Distribution Tactics

200+ Academic Theses (Ph.D. and MA) on Terrorism- and Counter-Terrorism - related Issues, written in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, and Norwegian

Countering Violent Extremism in Prisons: A Review of Key Recent Research and Critical Research Gaps

18 December 2017

De-radicalisation

Discussions on Policy

Terrorism Events Data: An Inventory of Databases and Data Sets, 1968-2017

16 October 2017

Towards Academic Consensus Definitions of Radicalism and Extremism

13 October 2017

Central Asian Jihadists in the Front Line

12 October 2017

The Islamic State after the Caliphate - Can IS Go Underground?

10 October 2017

Who are the British Jihadists? Identifying Salient Biographical Factors in the Radicalisation Process

A Mixed Methods Empirical Examination of Changes in Emphasis and Style in the Extremist Magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah

The Tranquillity Campaign: A Beacon of Light in the Dark World Wide Web

De-radicalisation

An Empirical Analysis of Causes of Islamist Radicalisation: Italian Case Study

Deciphering Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Al-Qaeda’s Strategic and Ideological Imperatives

Ansar al-Sharia in Libya: An Enduring Threat

Blast through the Past: Terrorist Attacks on Art and Antiquities as a Reconquest of the Modern Jihadi Identity

The ISIS Emni: The Origins and Inner Workings of ISIS's Intelligence Apparatus

Women of the Caliphate: The Mechanism for Women's incorporation into the Islamic State (IS)

The Future of Jihadism in Europe: A Pessimistic View

Why States Fail to Counter Foreign Fighter Mobilizations: The Role of Intelligence Services

Discussions on Policy

Countering Violent Extremism with Governance Networks

Discussions on Policy

Plebeian Jihadism in Denmark: An Individualisation and Popularization Predating the Growth of the Islamic State

27 February 2017

Patterns of Involvement among Individuals Arrested for Islamic State-related Terrorist Activities in Spain

20 February 2017

Jihadism in Norway: a Typology of Militant Networks in a Peripheral European Country

10 February 2017

Pathways to radicalisation

The French "Iraqi Networks" of the 2000s: Matrix of the 2015 Terrorist Attacks?

3 February 2017

Terrorism and Beyond: Exploring the Fallout of the European Foreign Fighter Phenomenon in Syria and Iraq

31 January 2017

Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq and the Socio-Economic Environment They Faced at Home: A Comparison of European Countries

24 January 2017

Discussions on Policy

“I Just Said It. The State”: Examining the Motivations for Danish Foreign Fighting in Syria

17 January 2017

IS and the Jihadist Information Highway – Projecting Influence and Religious Identity via Telegram

10 January 2017

With a Little Help from my Friends: an Exploration of the Tactical Use of Single-Actor Terrorism by the Islamic State

Jihadi Terrorism in Europe: The IS-Effect

27 December 2016

Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus

22 December 2016

Involvement Mechanisms of Jihadist Networks

12 December 2016

'Criminalised’ Islamic State Veterans – A Future Major Threat in Organised Crime Development?

7 December 2016

Poverty and “Economic Deprivation Theory”: Street Children, Qur’anic Schools/almajirai and the Dispossessed as a Source of Recruitment for Boko Haram and other Religious, Political and Criminal Groups in Northern Nigeria

5 December 2016

IS and its Predecessors: Violent Extremism in Historical Perspective

28 November 2016

Framing Daesh: Failures and consequences

26 September 2016

Misoverestimating ISIS: Comparisons with Al-Qaeda

21 September 2016

Violent Political Movements: Comparing the Shining Path to the Islamic State

7 September 2016

Constructions of Terrorism

Targeted Killings and Compellence: Lessons from the Campaign against Hamas in the Second Intifada

Right-Wing Terrorism and violence in Western Europe: Intorducing the RTV dataset

Evaluating CVE: Understanding the Recent Changes to the United Kingdom’s Implementation of Prevent

De-radicalisation

Discussions on Policy

‘Gonna Get Myself Connected’: The Role of Facilitation in Foreign Fighter Mobilizations

Jihadism, narrow and wide: The dangers of loose use of an important term

18 December 2015

Re-Examining the Involvement of Converts in Islamist Terrorism: A Comparison of the U.S. and U.K.

27 October 2015

Social media, recruitment, allegiance and the Islamic State

The concept of Bay‘a in the Islamic State’s ideology

Picture or it didn’t happen: A snapshot of the Islamic State’s official media output

The dreams of Islamic State

The metronome of apocalyptic time: Social media as carrier wave for millenarian contagion

Heirs of Zarqawi or Saddam? The relationship between al-Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State

Understanding jihadi proto-states

Bibliography: Islamic State

Assessing the Islamic State’s commitment to attacking the West

Who Are They and Why Do They Go? The Radicalization and Preparatory Processes of Dutch Jihadist Foreign Fighters

Pathways to radicalisation

Deradicalization or Disengagement? A Process in Need of Clarity and a Counterterrorism Initiative in Need of Evaluation

23 February 2013