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Extinguishing the Torch of Terror: The Threat of Terrorism and the 2010 Olympics

Journal of Strategic Security, 2009
With the change in seasons comes the expected change of insurgency operations in Afghanistan as Taliban and al-Qaida fighters mount their spring and summer offensives against both NATO forces and Afghanis sympathetic to foreign troops.
Serge E. Vidalis
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The Saudi Savior—Justifying Operation Decisive Storm

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 1, Winter 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that despite the success of Saudi Arabia's use of discourse to legitimize Operation Decisive Storm, their initial bombing and blockade of Yemen, to the United States, ultimately these discourses were problematic. Via analyzing speeches from Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adel Al‐Jubeir, and articles from Saudi news ...
Tom Walsh
wiley   +1 more source

Minimalist economic management, deferred revenue regime and aid dependency: Explaining contradictory post‐war statebuilding aims

Global Policy, Volume 15, Issue 5, Page 869-885, November 2024.
Abstract The paper analyses a contradiction in the liberal approach to post‐war statebuilding. The form of the state is seen to aim for the establishment of a centralised maximalist administration when the state's de jure economic policy makes its revenue dependant on market‐generated private sector taxes that are either inadequate or its institutions ...
Kambaiz Rafi
wiley   +1 more source

Geographic Trajectories of Al-Qaida and Taliban Terrorist Groups in Pakistan

Journal of Strategic Security, 2010
Though Western analysts tend to mention al-Qaida and Taliban in Pakistan in the same context, the dynamics of their relationship are far more complex than a cursory examination would reveal.
Syed Manzar Abbas Zaidi
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Al Qaida’s Persuasive Devices in the Digital World

Journal of Terrorism Research, 2015
The study examines the application of the post-World War II U.S. Armed Forces propaganda analysis methods as a valid framework for the analysis of modern extremist social media.  Using Jihadist and Islamic extremist, Al Qaida core, affiliate and associate (AQAA), digital media products, the framework examines persuasive devices used to attempt to ...
Bachmann, Michael, Wright, Julia E.
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“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars

American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 3, Page 509-520, September 2024.
Abstract This article focuses on female bodies co‐laboring across the racial lines and academic‐activist divides to explore both the potentials and constraints of feminist solidarity in the hyper‐masculine and ultra‐nationalist normative order of the global war on terror.
Serra Hakyemez, Ozlem Yasak
wiley   +1 more source

Al-Qaida en Irak [PDF]

, 2003
La irrupción del integrismo islámico en la región kurda fuera del control de Bagdad ha sido aprovechada por la red internacional de Al-Qaida para llevar su acción hasta las puertas de Turquía –país miembro de la Alianza Atlántica- y de otros países ...
Martorell, Manuel
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Systemic innovation for countering violent radicalization: Systems engineering in a policy context

Systems Engineering, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 663-684, July 2024.
Abstract This paper brings a systems engineering approach to policymaking in the context of violent radicalization. We test strategies to combat terrorism under the premise that violent radicalization is a complex system of social contagion resulting in terrorism.
Timothy Clancy, Bland Addison, Oleg Pavlov, Erika Palmer, Khalid Saeed   +4 more
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Terrorism, Trust, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 942-957, July 2024.
Abstract We study the effects of terrorism on political trust and national versus ethnic identification. Making use of unexpected attacks by the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, which occurred during the fieldwork of a public opinion survey in 2014, we show that even in a context of weak state institutions and frequent terrorist activities ...
Robin Harding, Arinze Nwokolo
wiley   +1 more source

Who does (not) belong to the jihadis’ umma? A comparison of IS’s and al Qaida’s use of takfīr to exclude people from the Muslim community.

Journal for Deradicalization, 2017
Since the declaration of the caliphate in mid-2014, the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) has been preoccupying the media as well as experts and scientists.
Christina Hartmann
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