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Where the Extremes May Touch: The Potential for Collaboration Between Islamist, Right- and Left-Wing Extremists Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey Bale -
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset Gina Scott Ligon -
Updates to the Big, Allied, and Dangerous (BAAD) Dataset Victor Asal -
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Roberta Belli -
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia Barnett S. Koven -
The Mobilization Puzzle: How Individual, Group, and Situational Dynamics Produce Extremist Outcomes Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen -
The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal, Gary LaFree -
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States Erin Miller, Michael Jensen -
START-Oxford University Press Book Series Laura Dugan, Anthony Lemieux, Gary Ackerman, Gary LaFree -
Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorist Networks Alan Neustadtl, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal -
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence -
Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States Kathleen Smarick -
Militant Islamist Networks in the West Jeffrey Bale -
Martyrs without Borders: Iraq's Foreign Fighters and the Third Generation of Global Jihad Mohammed Hafez -
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism Arie Kruglanski, Jarret Brachman, Michele Gelfand -
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction Gina Scott Ligon
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Framing Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West Peter Neumann -
Failure Points in Smuggling Networks Brandon Behlendorf -
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database Marcus A. Boyd -
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah Barnett S. Koven, Samuel D. Henkin -
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space Steve S. Sin, Ph.D., Marcus A. Boyd -
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+ Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban Barnett S. Koven -
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs William Braniff -
A Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen -
Project Title Sort ascending Publication Date Publication Type
Women Too: Explaining Gender Ideologies of Ethnopolitical Organizations 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Women in the White Supremacist Movement 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
With Friends Like These…Why Terrorist Organizations Ally 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism 2024-01-04T12:00:00 Journal Article
Western Muslims Volunteering to fight in Syria and Iraq: Why do they go, and what should we do? 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia 2010-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Understanding Recruitment to Organized Crime and Terrorism 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book
Towards Global Jihadism: Al-Qaeda's Strategic, Ideological and Structural Adaptations since 9/11 2012-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Three Percenters: A Look Inside an Anti-Government Militia 2021-03-01T12:00:00 Report
The Three N Approach to Strategies for United States Government Information Operations 2021-05-01T12:00:00 White Paper
The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails 2007-12-01T12:00:00 Book
The Social Psychological Makings of a Terrorist 2018-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Rise and Endurance of Radical Right Movements 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Nexus between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Report
The Nature of the Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist Attacks 2008-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Group Survival as a Measure of Effectiveness 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorist Group Rivalries and Alliances: Testing Competing Explanations 2019-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity 2014-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism, Radicalization and De-radicalization 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism as Transnational Advocacy: An Organizational and Tactical Examination 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism and the North Caucasus: An Overview 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Terrorism and Conspiracy Theories: A View from the 3N Model of Radicalization 2022-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and Its Fallacies 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Spotting the Threat 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Social Network Analysis of German Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq 2017-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Researching Terrorist Networks 2006-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Recruitment and Selection in Violent Extremist Organizations: Exploring What Industrial and Organizational Psychology Might Contribute 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rebel Group Attrition and Reversion to Violence: Micro-Level Evidence from Syria 2020-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Psychology Not Theology: Overcoming ISIS' Secret Appeal 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Op-ed
Probabilistic Pathway Projection to Counter Foreign Fighters 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Political Fragmentation and Alliances among Armed Non-state Actors in North and Western Africa (1997–2014) 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Only the Bad Die Young: The Correlates of Organizational Death for Far-Right Extremist Groups 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Online Networks of the Italian and German Extreme Right: An Explorative Study with Social Network Analysis 2009-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers 2007-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
NGO Interventions: Influences on Terrorist Activity 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Nexus of Global Jihad: Understanding Cooperation Among Terrorist Actors 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Networks, Power, and the Effects of Legitimacy in Contentious Politics 2020-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Networks of Cooperation: Rebel Alliances in Fragmented Civil Wars 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Networks as strategic repertoires: Functional differentiation among Al-Shabaab terror cells 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Momin Khawaja: Mechanisms of Radicalization 2016-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Marriage of Convenience: The Evolution of Iran and al-Qa'ida's Tactical Cooperation 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mapping Today's Jihadi Landscape and Threat 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mapping and Deterring Violent Extremist Networks in North-West Africa 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Loners, Colleagues, or Peers? Assessing the Social Organization of Radicalization 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Locating Al Qaeda's Center of Gravity: The Role of Middle Managers 2011-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lethal Connections: The Determinants of Network Connections in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, 1970–1998 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lethal Combinations: Studying the Structure of Terrorist Networks 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Islamist Terrorism, Diaspora Links and Casualty Rates 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Islamism and Totalitarianism 2009-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
ISIS: Its History, Ideology, and Psychology 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
ISIS in Iraq: The Social and Psychological Foundations of Terror 2023-05-18T12:00:00 Book
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction 2014-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend? How Terrorist Groups Select Partners 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Is Islamist Terrorism More Dangerous?: An Empirical Study of Group Ideology, Organization, and Goal Structure 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Impact of Perceived Peer Attitudes and Social Network Diversity on Violent Extremist Intentions 2020-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Hurdles to International Terrorist Alliances: Lessons from Al Qaeda's Experience 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How “Alone” are Lone-Actors? Exploring the Ideological, Signaling, and Support Networks of Lone-Actor Terrorists 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Hizballah as a Social Movement Organization: A Framing Approach 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Hezbollah's Social Jihad: Nonprofits as Resistance Organizations 2009-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Headhunting Among Extremist Organizations: An Empirical Assessment of Talent Spotting 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization 2011-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Fratricide in Rebel Movements: A Network Analysis of Syrian Militant Infighting 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Fratricidal Rebels: Ideological Extremity and Warring Factionalism in Civil Wars 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Extremist Group/Movement Affiliations of the January 6 Capitol Rioters 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Map
Exploring the Crime-Terror Nexus in the United States: A Social Network Analysis of a Hezbollah Network Involved in Trade Diversion 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Enemies with Benefits? Violent Rivalry and Terrorist Group Longevity 2015-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Doing Good while Killing: Why Some Insurgent Groups Provide Community Services 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do Machines Replicate Humans? Toward a Unified Understanding of Radicalizing Content on the Open Social Web 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Do 90 Percent of Terrorist Groups Last Less Than a Year? Updating the Conventional Wisdom 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2020-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cumulative Disruptions: Interdependency and Commitment Escalation as Mechanisms of Illicit Network Failure 2020-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cultivating Trust and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Online Counternarratives Intended to Reduce Support for Terrorism 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cross-Milieu Terrorist Collaboration: Using Game Theory to Assess the Risk of a Novel Threat 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Crime-Terror Alliances and the State: Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Contextualizing Disengagement: How Exit Barriers Shape the Pathways Out of Far-Right Extremism in the United States 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Changing Organizational Structures of Jihadist Networks in the Netherlands 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Catch Them Coming and Going: Probabilistic Pathway Projection to Counter Foreign Fighters 2016-03-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Building Terrorism from Social Ties: The Dark Side of Social Capital 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Boko Haram: An Assessment of Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Options 2015-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Big, Allied And Dangerous (BAAD) Fact Sheet 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
An Analysis of Violent Nonstate Actor Organizational Lethality and Network Co-Evoluation in the Middle East and North Africa 2016-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Alliance Hubs: Focal Points in the International Terrorist Landscape 2014-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Al-Qaida and Al-Shabaab: A Resilient Alliance 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Al Qaeda's Post-9/11 Evolution: An Assessment 2011-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Al Qaeda and the Islamic State's Break: Strategic Strife or Lackluster Leadership? 2017-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Tale of Two Caliphates: Al-Qaida and its Associated Movement vs. the Islamic State and its Associated Movement 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Presentation
A Preliminary Typology Mapping Pathways of Learning and Innovation by Modern Jihadist Groups 2016-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
’Unholy Alliances’: How Transnational Terrorists and Crime Make Common Cause 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Exploring the U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks and Trade Diversion 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
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UMD Report: Conspiracy theories fueled more terror attacks in 2020
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research
Terrorism Studies Minor information sessions
Terrorism studies graduate certificate application deadline is quickly approaching
Taken to extremes: Faculty Q&A with Michael Jensen
Summer courses for credit through START
START welcomes visiting scholar
START Symposium showcases impactful research, datasets
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations
START Response to Death of bin Laden
START Researchers Present at American Political Science Association Annual Conference
START Researchers Featured in Journal of Homeland Security
START researchers awarded top honors for applying marketing framework to violent groups
START research informs Senate report on Chesser
START Research Brief: Al-Shabaab's use of Twitter
START releases new data collections
START Newsletter: US beliefs before, after Boston bombings; Terrorist targeting of civilians; Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis
START launches new tool for counterterrorism community
START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference
START investigator and former TRA recipient publish book on the mobilization of right-wing extremism
START hosts virtual book talk on “Insurgent Terrorism”
START Assesses Impact of 9/11
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START Announces 2011-2012 Terrorism Research Award Participants
START Announces 2009 Curriculum Development Grant Recipients
Secretary Ridge announces creation of terrorism center
Research Roundtable details the patterns of terrorism worldwide
Research Roundtable features expert on policing terrorism
Remittances and the financing of terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rassler delves into the intricacies of the Haqqani Nexus
Press Release: START Panel Addresses Key Questions in Terrorism
New study shows alliances and not religious ideology are key to forecasting CBRN pursuit
New study examines terrorism in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines
New START model forecasts the flow of foreign fighters
New Research Brief Released: The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East
New editor will take on post for START-Oxford University Press book series
New database provides insights into terrorism countermeasures
Leading terrorism expert discusses mobilization of women into terrorist networks
LaFree speaks at National Institute of Justice conference
LaFree Discusses Terrorism Myths and Realities
Hegghammer explains variation in western jihadists
Have you seen it yet? START Research Review
Financing terrorism through trade diversion
Discussion Point: The Prospective Military Power of Al Qaeda Affiliated Groups in the Syrian Conflict
Database Spotlight: Muslim Public Opinion and Public Opinion in the Islamic World on Terrorism, al Qaeda and U.S. Policies
Database spotlight: Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD)
Dagher discusses ISIL in Iraq and new public opinion data
Background Report: Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
Al-Shabaab Attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya
Al-Qaida's fatal terrorism under Osama bin Laden
A Discussion with Dr. Matthew Levitt, Author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God
2011-2012 Background Report Undergraduate Terrorism Analysis Training (UTAT) Program Application Deadline Extended
‘The Three Pillars’ book tour offers insight to international governments
Title Sort ascending Job Title Institution
Asal_Victor Victor Asal Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration University at Albany, State University of New York
Guarrieri Thomas Guarrieri Director of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons &
Technology (UWT) Division, START
University of Maryland
person-default Sheehan Kane Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START University of Maryland
R. Karl Rethemeyer R. Karl Rethemeyer Associate Professor of Public Administration & Policy University at Albany, State University of New York
person-default Peter Simi Associate Professor, Chapman University
Director, Earl Babbie Research Center
Chapman University
Jacome_Michlle Michelle Jacome Operations Officer on International Finance Cooperation at the World Bank
person-default Michael Jensen Research Director and Senior Researcher, START University of Maryland
Boyd_Marcus Marcus A. Boyd Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START
Director of Graduate Studies, START
University of Maryland
kurt braddock Kurt Braddock Assistant Professor, American University American University
Lafee Gary LaFree Founding Director, START
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman Gary Ackerman Associate Professor, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Miller Erin Erin Miller GTD Program Manager, START University of Maryland
elena akers Elena Akers Researcher/Junior Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
McCauley_Clark Clark McCauley Professor of Psychology Bryn Mawr College
Brandon Behlendorf Brandon Behlendorf Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Koven Barnett S. Koven Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
Adam martin Adam Martin Software Developer, Vexterra Group
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Where the Extremes May Touch: The Potential for Collaboration Between Islamist, Right- and Left-Wing Extremists
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset
Updates to the Big, Allied, and Dangerous (BAAD) Dataset
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia
The Mobilization Puzzle: How Individual, Group, and Situational Dynamics Produce Extremist Outcomes
The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States
START-Oxford University Press Book Series
Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorist Networks
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence
Replication Data for: "Crime, Conflict and the Legitimacy Tradeoff: Explaining Variation in Insurgents' Participation in Crime" Go
Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States
Militant Islamist Networks in the West
Martyrs without Borders: Iraq's Foreign Fighters and the Third Generation of Global Jihad
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Framing Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West
Failure Points in Smuggling Networks
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)
BAAD Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) Database 1 - Lethality Data, 1998-2005 Go
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs
A Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism