A Comparative Study of Extreme Religious Nationalist Terrorist Groups in the United States [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to conduct a comparative study of Radical Right Wing terrorism and Radical Islamic terrorism both of which are categorized under the Religious Nationalism/Extremism typology of terrorism.
Arthur, Colleen
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A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races
Abstract Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party's down‐ballot candidates to low‐quality or extreme top‐of‐the‐ticket candidates, but empirical evidence on this conventional wisdom is scant. We estimate the effect of candidate quality and ideology in gubernatorial and U.S.
Kevin DeLuca +2 more
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The role of religious mentoring in countering extremism and terrorism
Religious, Islamic in particular, extremism under the current political conditions on a global scale has been discussed. A significant obstacle to stopping the alarming rise in young people taking up arms on behalf of various terrorist organizations is ...
L.M. Ravandi-Fadai
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Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches
ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker +2 more
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Understanding the Roots of Radicalisation on Twitter [PDF]
In an increasingly digital world, identifying signs of online extremism sits at the top of the priority list for counter-extremist agencies. Researchers and governments are investing in the creation of advanced information technologies to identify and ...
Borum Randy +5 more
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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States
Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli +2 more
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Security, Religion, and Political Culture: A Defense of Weak Disestablishment
Many, especially in the West, have long argued against state religious establishments on the ethical grounds of the rights of freedom of conscience and personal autonomy.
Joseph Prud’homme
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A bare-bones mathematical model of radicalization
Radicalization is the process by which people come to adopt increasingly extreme political or religious ideologies. While radical thinking is by no means problematic in itself, it becomes a threat to national security when it leads to violence.
McCluskey, Connell, Santoprete, Manuele
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Marriage of Love? Cross‐Fertilisation Between Illiberalism and Euroscepticism
Abstract The article contributes to the conceptual mapping of the interaction between Euroscepticism and illiberalism, suggesting that there is a mutual reinforcement process between them. The overlaps cover the following areas: the critique of supranationalism, the resulting defence of national sovereignty, the defence of the (national) majority ...
Vít Hloušek, Vratislav Havlík
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Religious islamist extremism legal and philosophical aspects
Examines the current problems associated with religious Islamic extremism in the Russian Federation and abroad. Indicated that the Russian national legislation given legal definition of extremism, which is enshrined in the Federal Law of the Russian ...
N V Volodina, P E Zhigotsky
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