Journal of Terrorism Research: Recent submissions

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    • Human bombing - a religious act 

      Ilyas, Mohammed (Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, 2014-09-01) - Journal article
      The issue of human bombing, which is popularly known as suicide bombing has become important in the Western world since the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks. Since then the issue of human bombing has become important to academia, the ...

    • Entering the black hole: the Taliban, terrorism, and organised crime 

      Phillips, Matthew D.; Kamen, Emily A. (Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, 2014-09-01) - Journal article
      Cooperation and imitation among crime and terror groups in recent years has given rise to a crime-terror nexus. A linear conceptualisation of a crime-terror spectrum, suggests that complete convergence of crime and terror ...

    • The theatre of cruelty: dehumanization, objectification & Abu Ghraib 

      Spens, Christiana (Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, 2014-09-30) - Journal article
      A clumsy pyramid of kneeling men, naked apart from the hoods over their heads, with a smiling, fair-headed woman and a grinning man with a moustache, wearing green cleaning gloves; a slight woman with a blank expression ...

    • Al-Qaeda in Gaza: isolating “the base” 

      Marshall, Warren (Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, 2010-11-30) - Journal article
      In 1996, Osama bin Laden declared jihad against the American forces occupying Saudi Arabia, calling for Muslims to expel the infidels from the “land of the two holy places.” The first sacred ground mentioned in this ...

    • Thinking about the 'law of unintended consequences' 

      Singh, Rashmi (Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, 2010-10-13) - Journal item
      The United State’s now-not-so-covert drone based program targeting Al Qaeda (AQ) and Taliban commanders based in Pakistan’s inhospitable and hostile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FETA) has been operational since ...