Perspectives on Terrorism

1. Officially Blacklisted Extremist/Terrorist (Support) Organizations
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... against international terrorism has improved. However, the global community is still far from a situation in which one country’s terrorist group is all countries’ public enemy.  This comparative list enumerates ...

2. The Global Terrorism Database: Accomplishments and Challenges
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The Global Terrorism Database: Accomplishments and Challenges by Gary LaFree The paper provides an update on the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), an open source event database that now includes information ...

3. Confronting al-Qaeda: Understanding the Threat in Afghanistan
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Confronting al-Qaeda: Understanding the Threat in Afghanistan by Marc Sageman Counter-terrorism policy should be based on a comprehensive analysis of the facts. A comprehensive survey of global neo-jihadi ...

4. Revisiting the Contagion Hypothesis: Terrorism, News Coverage, and Copycat Attacks
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... advances in communication and information technology, and changes in the global media landscape during the last decade or so, this article reconsiders arguments surrounding contagion theories and contends ...

5. Book Reviews
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Ruediger Lohlker. Dschihadismus Materialien [Jihadism Materials]. Vienna, Facultas WUV, 2009. 248 pp. ISBN 978-3-8252-3132-3 Peter R. Neumann. Old & New Terrorism. Late Modernity, Globalization and ...

6. Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri’s Nizam, la Tanzim?
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... not seen evidence supporting this assertion – but rather this article attempts to show how al-Suri’s framework for global jihad offers a good prism through which to analyse this group since they would ...

7. Special Issue of Perspectives on Terrorism
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... and attitudes present in today’s environment. Each manuscript published in this issue examines a unique and burgeoning topic in the field of terrorism studies. From local to global, the impact of ...

8. In Cold Blood: The Madrid Bombings
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In Cold Blood: The Madrid Bombings By Phil Williams Much of the current debate about the global jihad movement revolves around competing organizational models. The first of these is a top down model ...

9. The Global War on Terror and State Terrorism
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The Global War on Terror and State Terrorism By Michael Stohl While it is often proclaimed that the events of 9/11 changed "everything," it is important to stress that even more than the carnage and ...

10. From the 'Global War on Terror' to Containment: An Opinion Brief
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From the 'Global War on Terror' to Containment: An Opinion Brief By Robert E. Kelly The Global War on Terror (GWoT) is maturing. In the first Bush term, it was characterized by aggressive rhetoric ...

11. An Argument for Terrorism
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... the way in which the Global War on Terror is prosecuted by the authorities both domestically and overseas. It also affects the way in which terrorism is understood and dealt with as a criminal act under ...

12. Terrorism’s Fifth Wave: A Theory, A Conundrum and a Dilemma
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... of study into a single article that identified a unifying global zeitgeist that linking terrorist movements on a global scale which had in most instances never been in direct contact with one another. ...

13. Islamist Terrorism and the “Pizza Effect”
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... understood forms of terrorism, using the frames of globalization and localization and of the less well known but equally important phenomenon of the “pizza effect,” the nature of which will be summarized ...

14. The Modern Terrorist Threat to Aviation Security
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... global aviation system. While no specific threats have been reported, there is a widespread fear based upon an extensive history of attacks, ranging from hijackings and in-flight bombings to surface-to-air ...

15. Al-Qaeda’s Propaganda Advantage and How to Counter It
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... places—can and do utilize global information and communication networks that did not exist a decade or so earlier or were not easily accessible.  ...

16. Global Poverty, Inequality, and Transnational Terrorism: A Research Note
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Global Poverty, Inequality, and Transnational Terrorism: A Research Note By James A. Piazza Among politicians and political figures within the media and throughout the general public, the idea that ...

17. Jihadist Propaganda and its Audiences: A Change of Course?
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... groups of the Global Jihadist Movement (GJM) from the earliest days. This is a logical priority when considering that to achieve their primary strategic objectives; jihadists need to mobilize Muslim Populations. ...

18. Greetings and Welcome to Perspectives on Terrorism
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... efforts. TRI was formed by scholars in order to provide the global community with centralized tools from which to better actualize the full potential of its labours. TRI is working to build a truly inclusive ...

19. Initiative Participants
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... University, USA. http://www.comops.org/ Defense & Strategic Studies Department, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC), Monash University, Australia. ...

20. 1, 2, 3…Coup! Of Violence, Incursions on Sovereignty and Recourses in Pakistan

1, 2, 3…Coup! Of Violence, Incursions on Sovereignty and Recourses in Pakistan