Terrorism, Armed Struggle

While the 'New Taliban' looms large in the global media, little is known about how it functions as an organisation. How united is it? Are its struc...

Exhausted and on the run, it looked like the end for the small band of men. Looking at the few who had followed him into the desert, Muhammad said,...

As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda...

The summer of 2014--when the Islamic State seized Mosul, Iraq's second city; captured vast swathes of eastern Syria; and declared itself a latter-d...

The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies...

Can laughter really be used to undermine the appeal of terrorist groups? And should it be? Is there any truth in the stereotypical notions of fanat...

How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movements extraordinary military operation relies on financial backi...

Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious ye...

This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah, since the ...

Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan ...

Who are the Taliban? Are they a militant movement? Are they religious scholars? The fact that these and other questions are still raised with frequ...

Across the Muslim world, from Iraq and Yemen, to Egypt and the Sahel, new alliances have been forged between the latest wave of violent Islamist gr...

This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by t...

Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terr...

Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terr...

This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the Middle East. Arguing that a ...

The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agen...

This book contributes to the study of collective memory and the sociology of terrorism by analysing the role of memorialization in relation to terr...

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of ...

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of ...