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What happens to the Islamic State if it loses the battle for territory in Iraq and Syria? Here’s a list of ways it might go down.
The Bastille Day attack in Nice – committed by an individual unknown to French security services – marks the evolution of radicalisation in many ways.
The road to radicalisation can morph from an idea about noble deeds.
Social media were at the heart of the attacks in Paris, serving as tools of communication and also sources of information and emotion.
The British government’s position is that this was a legitimate act of self-defence in a war zone. But there are other issues to examine.
Life in the caliphate wasn’t exactly as advertised for one group of former fighters.
Western media tropes of black widows, deviant sexuality and unthinking compliance fail to explain why violence crosses the gender divide.
A week of carnage across northern Nigeria proves Boko Haram is alive and well. Can the Nigerian army get its act together?
Attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia come against a backdrop of increasing extremist violence across the world.
The Camp Speicher massacre was one of Islamic State’s earliest and worst mass killings – but it was nearly buried under a tide of misinterpretation and denial.
By exploiting weaknesses and divisions, the extremist group has been able to establish a brutal regime in just 12 months.
Record numbers of arrests of young Britons on suspicion of terrorism offences shows the need for a new and effective approach to online jihad.
Islamic State’s rapid successes in Syria and Iraq stand in stark contrast to al-Qaeda’s efforts at global jihad over the past decade.
A memorial service has been held in Copenhagen for the victims of the shootings that killed two and injured five in the city on February 14. A crowd of up to 40,000 people gathered just around the corner…
What makes someone want to travel to some of the most dangerous places on earth to fight alongside terrorists? It’s a question we’ve been asking about young people for more than a decade. But the rise…
Last week, London’s mayor Boris Johnson generated a largely negative reaction when he described European jihadis as “wankers” – people who feel they are failures and that the world is against them. Now…
Even as the world was still trying to make sense of the Paris attacks, attention suddenly shifted towards Brussels with the news that two suspected jihadis had been killed in a police anti-terror raid…
The first thing that I noticed in the gruesome pictures of two gunmen fleeing the scene of their attack on Charlie Hebdo was that the men were dressed from head to toe in black. It might sound strange…
The Twittersphere is abuzz about the news on Monday that ISIS or their affiliates are suspected of hacking and compromising the US Central Command’s official Twitter account. As of Monday afternoon in…
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Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University
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Professor of Middle-Eastern and Islamic Studies, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
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Associate Professor in Modern History, Political Violence and Terrorism, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor, Coventry University
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Visiting Research Professor, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
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Former researcher at the Global Terrorism Research Centre, Monash University
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Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center and Professor of Politics, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Forensic Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
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Directrice de recherche, Sciences Po
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Emeritus Professor of Political Psychology, Bournemouth University
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PhD researcher, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University