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From the Islamic State to North Caucasian rebels and far-right nationalists, Russia is facing overlapping extremist threats.
Last night’s terrorist attack in Manchester reveals the challenges facing European intelligence and security services in preventing people who use everyday things like cars to cause mayhem.
Hyperbolic approaches to threat measurement don’t lead to very effective counter-terrorism policy.
In recent years, anti-terrorism defences have become more subtle. That might be about to change.
The UK has yet to properly grapple with its past complicity in prisoner abuses and torture.
For the first time, parliament plans to ban a right-wing extremist group, called National Action.
The government is set to increase its use of punitive security measures against individuals it can’t bring to court.
These days, we aren’t often told when a terrorist plot is foiled, but Brits still set off fireworks to remember the one they do know about.
When parliament returns later this month, Labor's Anne Aly will become the first Muslim woman to take a seat in the lower house.
Treating ‘illegal cultural practices’ as a form of terrorism could lead to more marginalisation.
After years of promises, the government still has not detailed how a bill to tackle extremism would work.
France has been in a state of emergency since November 2015, and yet a man was still able to plough a truck through a huge Bastille Day crowd.
A new mathematical model of ISIS supporters’ online behavior provides insights into how cyberactivity relates to real-world attacks.
Governments need to build trust, especially during a time of heightened tensions around the threat of international terror attacks.
The government has had to make many u-turns of late and that’s unlikely to change now.
Terrorist attacks that are locally sourced and financed are very hard to detect.
Scholars specializing in extremism are beginning to unravel how people – including a higher number of Americans than one might expect – become radicalized to embrace political violence.
Apple says it won’t comply with a court order to unlock a terrorism suspect’s iPhone for the FBI. Here’s the technology at play.
Apple is pushing back against the FBI’s order to decrypt the iPhone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook for the sake of privacy and security.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, The Philippines Institute, Australian National University
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Professor of International Politics, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication, University of East Anglia
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Departnent of Social Sciences, Pwani University
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Senior research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London