We conducted a systematic review of the contemporary scientific literature to (a) identify
consensus, where it exists, regarding factors associated with membership in terrorist …

The past decade has witnessed burgeoning efforts among governments to prevent people
from developing a commitment to violent extremism (conceived of as a process of …

Women have participated in political violence throughout history, yet the concept of women
as active proponents and perpetrators of political violence and terrorism is not widely …

We propose an explanatory framework for the comparative study of radicalization that
focuses on its" how" and" when" questions. We build on the relational tradition in the study of …

Social media interactions are popularly implicated in psychological changes like
radicalization. However, there are currently no viable methods to assess whether social …

Arriving at a consensual definition of the phenomenon of terrorism has been a particularly
difficult undertaking. Some definitions are either too specific or too vague, concentrating on …

As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this
book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the …

Scholars of political terrorism generally agree that the radical group is usually a splinter
faction of an opposition movement. Seldom, however, is an attempt made to incorporate …

This volume of cutting-edge research brings together internationally recognized experts in
the field of protest studies and contentious politics to analyse the causes and trajectories of …

How does state repression affect the incidence and impact of terrorism? This study conducts
a process tracing analysis of the ongoing contention between the Uyghur separatist …