Terrorism

Ansarullah Bangla Team: A Major Threat for Bangladesh’s Democracy

Siegfried O. Wolf • Jan 30 2016 • Articles

Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh poses the most dangerous challenge to the idea of a tolerant, secular democracy in a Muslim majority country.

A “Major Terrorist Event” Case Study: Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012

Robert Tugwell • Jan 29 2016 • Essays

The Benghazi attacks ultimately assisted in the ongoing destabilisation of post-Gaddafi Libya, and advanced multiple extremist Islamist causes.

The Perilous Path of India-Pakistan Relations, Post-Pathankot

Michael Kugelman • Jan 26 2016 • Articles

The terror attack on India’s Pathankot air base may have failed to derail the India-Pakistan dialogue, yet the future and success of these talks remain highly uncertain.

Is There a Religious Diversity Peace Dividend?

Dan G. Cox • Dec 28 2015 • Articles

Religious diversity significantly reduces terrorism, which may provide empirical verification for claims that religious freedom increases political stability.

ISIS Threat Laps the Caribbean

Peter Clegg • Dec 15 2015 • Articles

With the region’s porous borders and often weak state capacity to deal with security threats, regional governments must gear up to the challenges that face them.

Independently Wealthy: ISIL’s Sinews of War

Craig Giorgis and Daniel Myers • Dec 11 2015 • Articles

One of the primary indicators of a violent extremist organization’s potential longevity is its ability to self-finance. Today, ISIL is the richest such group in the world.

The Women of Daesh: Thinking about a Decade of Research on Women, Gender, and Terrorism

Laura Sjoberg • Dec 6 2015 • Articles

So long as gender stereotypes rule our understandings of women’s participation in terrorism, those understandings will necessarily be partial.

After Paris: What Should (Not) Be Done?

Lee Jarvis • Nov 30 2015 • Articles

In the wake of the Paris events, thinking more carefully about the contexts of these terror attacks is a useful start to normalising responses to terrorism.

India’s Complex Security Environment & the Need for International Partnerships

Satgin Hamrah • Nov 21 2015 • Articles

India needs to develop and implement effective strategies and tactics that address its diverse security environment in a multi-pronged and multi-layered manner.

Larval Terror and the Digital Darkside

Nandita Biswas Mellamphy • Nov 14 2015 • Articles

When war becomes larval, it becomes pervasive and perpetual; the need for fear, for threats, for insecurity also become circulated within the spheres of everyday life.

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