This article reviews several recent books on the Islamic State in order to understand its
goals, motivations, strategy, and vulnerabilities. It argues that the Islamic State's ideology is …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Dominant narratives-from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror-have often served
as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past …

We provide a review of theoretical and empirical contributions on the economic analysis of
terrorism and counterterrorism. We argue that simple rational‐choice models of terrorist …

The'long nineteenth century'(1776–1914) was a period of political, economic, military and
cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing …

This article studies variation in conflict theater choice by Western jihadists in an effort to
understand their motivations. Some militants attack at home, whereas others join …

Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that
galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering …

Affect and emotion are key elements of our lived experience as human beings but currently
play little role in how we theorize actorhood in international relations. We offer six …

Since 2001, the United States has created or reorganized more than two counterterrorism
organizations for every apprehension it has made of Islamists apparently planning to commit …

Every year a staggering number of unidentified shell corporations succeed in hiding
perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which …