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“(Re) Assessing the Threat from Incel Violence: A Study of Violent Incel-Related Federal Cases in America” in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Re) Assessing the Threat from Incel Violence: A Study of Violent Incel-Related Federal Cases in America
This article reassesses claims that the Incel movement constitutes a form of terrorism by examining its ideology, patterns of violence, and empirical case data. Drawing on an original dataset of US...
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February 2, 2026 at 11:34 AM
“(Re) Assessing the Threat from Incel Violence: A Study of Violent Incel-Related Federal Cases in America” in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The Radicalisation Loop: A Layered Linguistic Model of Disengagement and Re-Engagement in an Incel Forum” in Current Psychology link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The radicalisation loop: A layered linguistic model of disengagement and re-engagement in an incel forum - Current Psychology
Online engagement with extremist communities presents significant mental health and real-world risks. This study investigated how patterns of engagement within an incel forum relate to dynamic affecti...
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February 2, 2026 at 9:18 AM
“The Radicalisation Loop: A Layered Linguistic Model of Disengagement and Re-Engagement in an Incel Forum” in Current Psychology link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Attitudes Towards Extremist Organizations in the United States” in Journal of Conflict Resolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 31, 2026 at 7:12 AM
“Attitudes Towards Extremist Organizations in the United States” in Journal of Conflict Resolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
“The Social Psychology of Collective Violence: Civilian Motivations for Involvement in the Indonesian May 1998 Riots” in British Journal of Social Psychology bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:25 AM
“The Social Psychology of Collective Violence: Civilian Motivations for Involvement in the Indonesian May 1998 Riots” in British Journal of Social Psychology bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“(A)Moral Underpinnings of Militant Extremist Thinking Pattern: The Role of Moral Foundations and Dark Tetrad” in Personality and Individual Differences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(A)moral underpinnings of militant extremist thinking pattern: The role of moral foundations and Dark Tetrad
We investigated the association between the Militant Extremist Mindset (MEM)—a measure of radicalisation consisting of Proviolence (advocating ideolog…
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January 30, 2026 at 8:01 AM
“(A)Moral Underpinnings of Militant Extremist Thinking Pattern: The Role of Moral Foundations and Dark Tetrad” in Personality and Individual Differences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Why and How do Terrorism-Sponsoring States Weaponise their Complicity through Controlled Confession? The Case of Pakistan” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Why and how do terrorism-sponsoring states weaponise their complicity through controlled confession? The case of Pakistan
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a grassroots civil rights collective, accuses the Pakistan Army of instrumentalizing Islamist militancy in the Pak-Afghan borderlands to extract lucrative “count...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:48 AM
“Why and How do Terrorism-Sponsoring States Weaponise their Complicity through Controlled Confession? The Case of Pakistan” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The Importance of School and Victim Testimonies in Adolescents’ Knowledge of Terrorism: An Assessment of Public Policies in Spain” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The importance of school and victim testimonies in adolescents’ knowledge of terrorism: an assessment of public policies in Spain
Young Spaniards born after 2000 constitute the first generation in democratic Spain to receive secondary education on the country’s various forms of terrorism, most notably ETA violence. The Minist...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:26 PM
“The Importance of School and Victim Testimonies in Adolescents’ Knowledge of Terrorism: An Assessment of Public Policies in Spain” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The Construction of Threatening Others: Discourses and Agendas of the Brazilian and German Radical Right” in Political Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The construction of threatening Others: Discourses and agendas of the Brazilian and German radical right
Based on empirical data from a comparative study of youth activism in the Radical Right of Brazil and Germany, this article identifies the construction of threatening Others as a common root of agend...
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January 27, 2026 at 5:05 PM
“The Construction of Threatening Others: Discourses and Agendas of the Brazilian and German Radical Right” in Political Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Law and Order, Magical Spirits, and False Flag Operations: On the Co-Occurrence of Authoritarianism, Spirituality, and Conspiracy Beliefs and Their Association with Support of Violent Protests” in Political Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Law and order, magical spirits, and false flag operations: On the co‐occurrence of authoritarianism, spirituality, and conspiracy beliefs and their association with support of violent protests
In Western democracies, commentators have noted an unprecedented diversity in protest movements opposing ecological and health regulations, including traditional right-wing authoritarians alongside c...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:14 PM
“Law and Order, Magical Spirits, and False Flag Operations: On the Co-Occurrence of Authoritarianism, Spirituality, and Conspiracy Beliefs and Their Association with Support of Violent Protests” in Political Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Migration Discourses from the Radical Right: Mapping and Testing Potential for Political Mobilization” in Political Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Migration discourses from the radical right: Mapping and testing potential for political mobilization
Radical right-wing groups are often linked to conspiratorial beliefs that can fuel political extremism but understanding how these beliefs translate into real-world action remains a challenge, as the....
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January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
“Migration Discourses from the Radical Right: Mapping and Testing Potential for Political Mobilization” in Political Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“The Overlap of Anti-Black and Anti-Protest Rhetoric: How Far-Right Political Commentators Preserve Anti-Black Racist Stereotypes in the Context of Black Lives Matter Debates” in British Journal of Social Psychology bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Research has shown that speakers opposing political demonstrations can pathologize protesters campaigning against racial prejudice in order to justify racialized police profiling and brutality. This ...
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January 27, 2026 at 12:01 PM
“The Overlap of Anti-Black and Anti-Protest Rhetoric: How Far-Right Political Commentators Preserve Anti-Black Racist Stereotypes in the Context of Black Lives Matter Debates” in British Journal of Social Psychology bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“‘I Do Solemnly Promise … ’ The IRA’s Green Book and its Community of Practice” in Small Wars & Insurgencies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘I do solemnly promise … ’ the IRA’s Green Book and its Community of Practice
The Green Book was a training and induction manual for volunteers in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), written in the mid-1970s. It provided practical guidance, including on how to resis...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:01 PM
“‘I Do Solemnly Promise … ’ The IRA’s Green Book and its Community of Practice” in Small Wars & Insurgencies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The United States Proscription of Hezbollah: A Critical Discourse Analysis (1985–1997)” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The United States proscription of Hezbollah: a critical discourse analysis (1985–1997)
Hezbollah, a Lebanese political and armed organisation founded in 1982, was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States. Since then, the US has pressured other states to ...
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January 24, 2026 at 3:09 PM
“The United States Proscription of Hezbollah: A Critical Discourse Analysis (1985–1997)” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“A Target-Centric Approach to Distinguishing Between Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare” in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Target-Centric Approach to Distinguishing Between Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare
This article discusses the distinction between terrorism and guerrilla warfare as being descriptive terms that can be viewed as being mainly dependent on the targeting preferences that violent non-...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:03 PM
“A Target-Centric Approach to Distinguishing Between Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare” in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Filling in the Blind Spot? Problematisations of ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ in German Federal-Level P/CVE Policy” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Filling in the blind spot? Problematisations of ‘right-wing extremism’ in German federal-level P/CVE policy
This article interrogates how “right-wing extremism” is problematised in German federal-level policies to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). While scholarship has critiqued European P/C...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:53 PM
“Filling in the Blind Spot? Problematisations of ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ in German Federal-Level P/CVE Policy” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Ideological Affinity, State Toleration and the Transnational Expansion of the Far-Right Russian Imperial Movement” in Global Crime www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ideological affinity, state toleration and the transnational expansion of the far-right Russian imperial movement
How do far-right groups transplant abroad without the kin or diaspora ties that typically abet criminal mobility? This article offers a qualitative, single-case study of the Russian Imperial Moveme...
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January 23, 2026 at 10:43 AM
“Ideological Affinity, State Toleration and the Transnational Expansion of the Far-Right Russian Imperial Movement” in Global Crime www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Colonial Legacies and Racialised Threats: How the “Terrorism” Discourse Stigmatises Palestine Solidarity Activism at Canadian Universities” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Colonial legacies and racialised threats: how the “terrorism” discourse stigmatises Palestine solidarity activism at Canadian universities
In response to Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, students across universities in North America and Europe organised encampments to demand that their institutions pressure Israel to end its viole...
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January 22, 2026 at 1:58 PM
“Colonial Legacies and Racialised Threats: How the “Terrorism” Discourse Stigmatises Palestine Solidarity Activism at Canadian Universities” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Minding the Standing Gap: The Case for Adopting a Surveillance-Style Approach to Counter-Extremism Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights” in Democracy and Security www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Minding the Standing Gap: The Case for Adopting a Surveillance-Style Approach to Counter-Extremism Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights
The decade-long expansion of programs to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE) among Council of Europe Member States has not seen a similar rise in the quantity of P/CVE-related cases reach...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:29 AM
“Minding the Standing Gap: The Case for Adopting a Surveillance-Style Approach to Counter-Extremism Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights” in Democracy and Security www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success” in British Journal of Political Science www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:13 AM
“Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success” in British Journal of Political Science www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Counter-Terrorism Via Proxies? How the U.S. Defeated ISIS in Syria” in Small Wars & Insurgencies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Counter-terrorism via proxies? How the U.S. defeated ISIS in Syria
Is the use of proxies in counter-terrorism effective? The campaign against ISIS in Syria may offer an answer. In 2017, the U.S. captured the capital of ISIS in Syria after a 3-year war. This swift ...
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January 20, 2026 at 12:07 PM
“Counter-Terrorism Via Proxies? How the U.S. Defeated ISIS in Syria” in Small Wars & Insurgencies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The Impact of Islamic State Affiliation on Civilian-Targeting Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparative Insights from ISCAP-Mozambique and ISWAP” in Small Wars & Insurgencies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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January 20, 2026 at 11:12 AM
“The Impact of Islamic State Affiliation on Civilian-Targeting Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparative Insights from ISCAP-Mozambique and ISWAP” in Small Wars & Insurgencies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“‘It’s a Fight to Finish; It’s either Us or Them’: Shifting Trust from Civilian Joint Task Force and Embracing Self-Defence in Counter-Terrorism in Northeast, Nigeria” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“It’s a fight to finish; it’s either us or them”: shifting trust from Civilian Joint Task Force and embracing self-defence in counter-terrorism in northeast, Nigeria
The northeast of Nigeria has witnessed over two decades of Boko Haram terrorism. The government’s efforts to address the problem have left a trust gap that alienates members of the local communitie...
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January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
“‘It’s a Fight to Finish; It’s either Us or Them’: Shifting Trust from Civilian Joint Task Force and Embracing Self-Defence in Counter-Terrorism in Northeast, Nigeria” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Who is ‘Rustam’: Enablers’ Role in the Islamic State Khorasan’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures” in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Who is “Rustam”: Enablers’ Role in the Islamic State Khorasan’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Who is “Rustam”: Enablers’ Role in the Islamic State Khorasan’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Since 2022, The Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-K) has shown an increasing intent to strike a...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:20 PM
“Who is ‘Rustam’: Enablers’ Role in the Islamic State Khorasan’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures” in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Stern” in Terrorism and Political Violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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January 17, 2026 at 11:04 AM
“A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Stern” in Terrorism and Political Violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Acute to Chronic Islamophobia: the Impact and Mitigation of Counter-Extremism on Young Muslims in Northern Europe” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Acute to Chronic Islamophobia: the impact and mitigation of counter-extremism on young Muslims in Northern Europe
This paper examines the evolving role of the counterterrorism state in Islamophobia across Northern Europe, exploring how new preventative counterextremism measures have reshaped Islamophobia from ...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
“Acute to Chronic Islamophobia: the Impact and Mitigation of Counter-Extremism on Young Muslims in Northern Europe” in Critical Studies on Terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....