Two experts in political rhetoric explain how one candidate has used rhetorical devices like framing and ‘argumentum in terrorem’ to stoke fear and attract voters since the Orlando nightclub shooting.
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Police face overwhelming pressure from two kinds of violence.
Was this a crime about hate or political ideology? Extremist experts use data to explain what type of crime took place in Florida, and why it matters.
Terrorism and links to IS – real or purported – need to be very carefully handled by the media for fear of reproducing propaganda.
Business Briefing: what breeds terrorism?
The breeding ground for terrorism isn't necessarily poverty - it's the middle class.
In our modern understanding of terror, Islamic extremism seems to trump everything else. This is a mistake.
The Orlando LGBTI massacre looks like the work of an individual rather than a planned terror attack, but it’s no less deadly for that.
It has taken the killing of 50 innocent people at an LGBT club to bring home how much homophobia is embedded in Western societies.
Recent attacks in Paris and Brussels have taught the French some important lessons about how to deal with the threat of terrorism.
In two weeks, Brits will cast a vote that could change the future of the European Union. A UCLA expert explores the continent’s greatest threats to unity.
From Twitter, to Facebook, to online gaming; radical groups use a vast range of tools to recruit new followers to their causes.
The timing of Kenya’s announcement that it will close the world’s largest refugee camp, and its reasons for doing so, hold important lessons for understanding refugee situations around the world.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has attacked the European Arrest Warrant for putting British nationals at risk of extradition. Is he right?
Only six percent of airline accidents in 2015 included fatalities. A security expert argues that a more accurate risk assessment of airline travel would take into account close calls.
The government has had to make many u-turns of late and that’s unlikely to change now.
The home secretary has announced that the threat of terrorism related to Northern Ireland is now highly likely in Britain.
The most difficult aspect of trade in “post-sanctions” Tehran, is how to navigate the sanctions still in place.
Throwaway phones are just one piece of the ever-widening technological arsenal of extremists and terror groups of all kinds.
The stakes around Australia’s defence appear higher and the urgency greater than at any time since the height of the Cold War.
Imposing significant restrictions on the liberty of a person found not guilty subverts the ordinary criminal justice process.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Senior research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Associate Professor, Law School, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
