Articles of the Week – 2/9-2/15

Monday February 11:

Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online in 2018: The Year in Review – Maura Conway, Vox-Pol: https://bit.ly/2GrELF8

Aid, Intervention, and Terror: The Impact of Foreign Aid and Foreign Military Intervention on Terror Events and Severity – Orlandrew E. Danzell, Emizet F. Kisangani, and Jeffrey Pickering, Social Science Quarterly:

Wednesday February 13:

Beauty tips and bullets: the magazines shaping the ideal jihadist woman – Reem Abdelaziz, BBC Monitoring: https://bit.ly/2WZPGLf

What Matters Is Who Supports You: Diaspora and Foreign States as External Supporters and Militants’ Adoption of Nonviolence – Marina G. Petrova, Journal of Conflict Resolution: https://bit.ly/2X4LN7S

Jihadism and crime in Spain: A convergence settings approach – Javier Argomaniz and Rut Bermejo, European Journal of Criminology: https://bit.ly/2Nn1PoX

Thursday February 14:

Networks of Cooperation: Rebel Alliances in Fragmented Civil Wars – Emily Kalah Gade, Michael Gabbay, Mohammed M. Hafez, and Zane Kelly, Journal of Conflict Resolution: https://bit.ly/2NIwzD8

Friday February 15:

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Internal Conflict and Renewed Tensions with Hurras al-Deen – Tore R. Hamming, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/2Ixkv6E

How ‘gangsters’ become jihadists: Bourdieu, criminology and the crime–terrorism nexus – Jonathan Ilan, Sveinung Sandberg, European Journal of Criminology: https://bit.ly/2VcQL0j

Islamization of criminal behaviour: The path to terrorism? Terrorist threat and crime in French counterterrorism policy-formulation – Silvia D’Amato, European Journal of Criminology: https://bit.ly/2IvEDpY

New video message from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām’s Shaykh Yaḥyā Bin Ṭāhar al-Firghālī: “A Theory of Victory in Islām, Part 2″

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Tuesday January 29:

The Shifts in the Jihadi-Salafi Paradigms: From the Peshawar and Jalalabad Paradigms to Those of Idleb and Raqqa – Djallil Lounnas, Terrorism and Political Violence:

When to Take Credit for Terrorism? A Cross-National Examination of Claims and Attributions – Erin M. Kearns, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/2Sj0eWc

Either or? Reconciling Findings on Mental Health and Extremism using a Dimensional Rather than Categorical Paradigm – Oluf Gøtzsche‐Astrup and Lasse Lindekilde, and Journal of Forensic Sciences: https://bit.ly/2Y1LCct

Wednesday January 30:

The Saga of Mukhtar Robow and Somalia’s Fractious Politics – Christopher Anzalone and Stig Jarle Hansen, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/2WCxIxU

Ghosts of the Past: The Muslim Brotherhood and its Struggle for Legitimacy in post‑Qaddafi Libya – Inga Kristina Trauthig, ICSR:

When do ties bind? Foreign fighters, social embeddedness, and violence against civilians – Pauline Moore, Journal of Peace Research: https://bit.ly/2MKe12R