Policy failures are often assumed to be unintentional and anomalous events about which
well-intentioned governments can learn why they occurred and how they can be corrected …

Policy tools are chosen and deployed in the expectation that they will continue to work
effectively over extended periods of time. This is a tall expectation to meet, given that the …

Policy designs must not only “work” in the sense of accomplishing their goals but must also
work in their intended fashion. Most research to date has focused on the former topic and …

This article explores the banning of National Action (NA), a small, violent national-socialist
group, which, in December 2016, became the first extreme right-wing group proscribed by a …

Few issues have attracted as much discussion in recent years as that of terrorist violence
and how it should be countered. Attacks from 9/11, through to events in Bali, Madrid …

A recent wave of scholarship has drawn attention to the need for further engagement with
the role of 'the audience'in securitization 'games'. This article contributes to this discussion …

This paper examines the security governance of the Tamil diaspora through a practice lens.
It takes as its starting point the observation that the Tamil diaspora community has …

This article offers a discursive analysis of UK Parliamentary debate on the proscription of
terrorist organisations between 2002 and 2014. It argues that these debates play an …

Everyday public behavior is premised on honesty. But the imperative to be honest can
conflict with self-interest. This conflict between public good and private gain is one of the …

This article considers the status and value of the US Designated Foreign Terrorist
Organizations (FTO) list via an extended and annotated interview with James R. Clapper …