By Dr. Lorne L. Dawson. The study of homegrown jihadi terrorist radicalisation has veered from early efforts to theorise what was happening, which were often insufficiently grounded in empirical evidence, to a reticence to theorise much at all, given the perceived complexity of the phenomenon. Yet knowledge acquisition and mobilisation in this relatively new field […]
As the military defeat of IS in the Levant is becoming a more tangible reality and the number of foreign fighters returning to their countries of origin is surpassing that of those leaving, governments are faced with the question of what to do with potentially dangerous returned and returning foreign fighters. Several articles, including ones […]
In October 2016, the coalition-backed operation to recapture the city of Mosul was initiated. Notwithstanding its early territorial successes, it soon became clear that the campaign would take much longer than its predicted two months. The so-called Islamic State (IS) had been anticipating and preparing for it for quite literally years and, as such, advancing […]