Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1080/1057610x.2021.1954798
Cooper Vardy
While the Nazi war machine is best known for its use of concentration camps to exterminate vast swathes of Europe’s Jewish population, more than 1.5 million other “undesirables” were executed by mo...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-14DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1944023
Gregory D. Koblentz, Stevie Kiesel
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how an infectious disease can cause massive casualties, destabilize governments, and garner intense media attention as countries struggle to respond effectively. ...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1930863
Victor Asal, Joseph K. Young, Nakissa Jahanbani, Suzanne Weedon Levy
Abstract Why do foreign militaries attack some insurgencies and not others? Although foreign involvement in civil conflicts is on the rise, many insurgencies are not targeted militarily by external powers. Current research suggests organizations that are lethal or that attack democracies should be targeted more often. We argue that organizations that have vital markers of capabilities, such as alliances with other violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and territorial control, and the ability to attack members of a powerful country, in this case, U.S. citizens at home or abroad, are more likely to be targeted. Our empirical analysis supports this contention: we use a logistic regression model and, in post-estimation, predicted probabilities and a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) model to understand the effect of potential factors on international military interventions.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-12DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2020.1777711
G. Ramsay
Abstract Despite great interest in the importance of “narrative” to the global jihadi movement, research on actual examples of jihadi storytelling has been very limited to date. In this paper, I discuss the phenomenon of jihadi storytelling, specifically in digital contexts, focusing on the case study of one storyteller in particular: “Najm al-Din Azad”, a Saudi jihadist who tweeted and blogged a collection of “Tales of the Heroism of the Mujahidin” while participating in the Syrian civil war.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1940472
T. Zieliński
Drastic violations of human rights, humanitarian crises or genocide constituted a basis for the intervention of military forces under the flag of the UN or as part of a coalition of states after th...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1943813
David Jones, M. L. Smith
9/11 and its aftermath was to have a dramatic impact on the visual arts and the artistic response to the War on Terror. This study surveys the evolution of these responses from the dramatic events ...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1080/1057610x.2021.1935716
Saleh Hasanzadeh, Ali Abedi Renani
This paper studies the subject of jihad in the Qur’an and the Prophet’s conduct, and seeks to answer the following questions. What is the primary principle in the Islamic state’s international rela...
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.1080/1057610x.2021.1929051
Victor Asal, C. Linebarger, J. Greig
International attacks by rebel groups are an historically important phenomenon. Yet, few scholars have sought to understand why some rebel organizations “go abroad” and commence international attac...
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Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1917651
David Keatley, Sarah Knight, A. Maroño
Abstract Extremists and the behaviors performed by extremists are a growing concern. There is a growing body of research showing the differences between violent and nonviolent extremists in terms of developmental pathways and actions. The current research used a temporal approach, crime script analysis, to map the pathways of violent and nonviolent extremists. Results showed differences between the groups in terms of Internet use, social networks and methods of enacting their beliefs. This research provides a new approach to understanding extremism and highlights the role of temporal methods in showing key differences that require different intervention strategies.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.1080/1057610x.2021.1945187
J. Saalfeld
This article investigates whether inter-secular party competition can constrain the formation of Salafi-jihadist milieus. Focusing on the recent rise of militant Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa, I a...
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