{"title":"“For God, for Tsar and for the Nation : authenticity in the Russian Imperial Movement’s propaganda”","authors":"A. Kruglova","doi":"10.1080/1057610X.2021.1990826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2021.1990826","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will examine how extremist organizations manage to present themselves as credible actors in the eyes of potential supporters on social media. This paper will address this question by exploring the role of authenticity in strategic narratives, which is believed to help these groups achieve this purpose. Apart from introducing this new theoretical concept, the paper will also apply it to a new case study of the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) – the first far-right organization to be designated as terrorist by the U.S. and Canada. By conducting discourse analysis of the group’s social media propaganda on the Russian network VKontakte, the paper will show how the RIM makes its strategic narratives authentic and, as a consequence, creates an image of a credible and trustworthy actor and thus manages to reach out to its target audience.","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"26 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90869966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Rebelling to Ruling: Insurgent Victory and State Capture in Africa","authors":"Christopher Day, Michael Woldemariam","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1980978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1980978","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91190157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the Outcome of Investigations and Prosecutions of Extremism in the United States","authors":"Rachel Yon, D. Milton","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1987659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1987659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81047674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female Combatants and Durability of Civil War","authors":"Keshab Giri, Roos Haer","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1980982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1980982","url":null,"abstract":"How is conflict duration affected by female combatants in rebel group? In this study, we advance three possible pathways through which female combatants enhance the resilience of the rebel group, thereby lengthening the conflict. We explore this association using quantitative cross-sectional data on female combatant and conflict duration. The positive relationship between female combatants and civil war duration from quantitative analysis is substantiated by the qualitative evidence collected via in-depth interviews with former male and female combatants in the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. This work has important implications for the study of armed conflict duration, rebel organizations, and post-conflict peacebuilding.","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"404 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72419013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fast & The Furious…Torturous?: Examining the Impact of Torture Scenes in Popular Films on Public Perceptions of Torture Policy","authors":"Erin M. Kearns, C. Delehanty","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1983211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1983211","url":null,"abstract":"Entertainment media regularly depict torture as effective. Indeed, most popular films contain torture—often outside of counterterrorism-specific plotlines. In the counterterrorism-specific context,...","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76600877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bombing It: The Meaning and Sources of Suicide Bombing Failure","authors":"J. Warner, Ellen Chapin, Q. Sorenson","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1956062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1956062","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years, political scientists and policymakers have striven to understand the circumstances under which terrorists fail, operationally and strategically. However, the question of failure has...","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"217 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77771156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data","authors":"Daniela Peterka-Benton, F. Laguardia","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1980981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1980981","url":null,"abstract":"Terrorism research has gained much traction since the 9/11 attacks, but some sub genres of terrorism, such as right-wing terrorism, have remained under-studied areas. Unsurprisingly data sources to...","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"136 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76811597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terrorist Peer Review: Which Autonomous Attacks Does ISIL Accept for Publication?","authors":"Joseph M. Brown","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1970891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1970891","url":null,"abstract":"The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claims some attacks by autonomous jihadists in the West, but not all of them. This article argues that ISIL selectively takes credit for attacks that...","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90630871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crossing Battle Death Lines: Why Do Some Insurgent Organizations Escalate Violence to Higher-Intensity Armed Conflicts?","authors":"Victor Asal, M. Shkolnik","doi":"10.1080/1057610x.2021.1968983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.1968983","url":null,"abstract":"Why do some insurgent groups escalate violence to higher-intensity insurgencies or civil war? We explore this question among 140 insurgent groups worldwide across various thresholds of armed confli...","PeriodicalId":38834,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Conflict & Terrorism","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81642347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}