This article reviews the existing literature, mostly from political science, on suicide bombing.
A prominent weapon in the toolkit of violent nonstate actors for a generation, suicide …

We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 113 countries
between 1984 and 2012. We provide evidence, robust to various methodological changes …

This article introduces an extended data set of 760 terrorist groups that engaged in attacks
during 1970 to 2016. Unlike most extant group data sets, the extended data on terrorist …

A wide range of literature on ethnic conflict and terrorism has argued that domestic
competition increases the likelihood that a political organization will use violence in an effort …

Terrorism, mass uprisings, and political extremism are in the news every day. It is no
coincidence that these phenomena come together at the beginning of a new era. Radicals …

This article questions the current narrative paradigm and argues that al-Shabaab attacks
Kenya for strategic and highly rational reasons, beyond sharing a border and having bases …

How does the presence of multiple combatants affect rebel groups' ideological and demand
positioning? Although violent forms of inter-group conflict have been widely studied in the …

Despite the prevalence of armed groups in world politics, a prominent measurement
challenge obscures understanding about many of these militant actors, especially when …

In theory, terrorism is a political communication strategy for groups to convey their
grievances and the costs of ignoring them. In practice, though, terrorist groups take …

The goal of this special issue is to provide a contemporary overview of Jama'atu Ahlis
Sunnar Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad (that is, people committed to the propagation of the Prophet's …