Islamic State has been spreading its influence beyond the Middle East – and Central Asia could be in the firing line.
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Dirty bombs are relatively easy for a terrorist organisation to make. So how do we tackle the threat?
Ashraf Ghani has accused citizens of abandoning their country under the ‘slightest pressure’.
Evidence suggests that the threat is not being taken seriously enough.
News from Syria that the ancient town has been taken back from Islamic State is good news – but especially for Putin and Assad.
The seeds of radicalisation were being sown long before Islamic State came along.
It’s going to take time and money, but the country must act on its terrorism problem.
Terrorist attacks that are locally sourced and financed are very hard to detect.
Violent Islamist extremism appears to have reached a crisis point in Europe with a “perfect storm” of circumstances, Malcolm Turnbull has said.
Although not an intuitive conclusion, the Brussels attacks are actually indicative of Islamic State’s growing decline and desperation.
Scholars specializing in extremism are beginning to unravel how people – including a higher number of Americans than one might expect – become radicalized to embrace political violence.
It is impossible to know for sure what a Trump presidency would be like. But there are sensible reasons to suspect it could be disastrous – not only for the US but also for Australia.
The gun attack at a hotel marks another bloody chapter in West Africa’s fight against Islamist militancy.
What is the likelihood of stateless terror suspects being brought to book for their crimes?
The Russian president’s announcement he will be pulling troops out of Syria has taken everyone by surprise.
Our series on understanding Islamic State attempts to catalogue many of the forces and events that can arguably have played a part in creating the conditions necessary for these jihadists to emerge.
Death toll data from the war in Syria should be treated with great caution. It’s nearly impossible to provide precise numbers and assigning blame for the casualties is harder again.
The rise of Islamic State and its declaration of the caliphate can be read as part of a wider story that has unfolded since the formation of modern nation states in the Muslim world.
The tradition of republicanism offered us civil religion, a foundation of belief that could counter any politics or policy that demands sacrifice in this world to be compensated in some “beyond”.
Stopping the conflict in Syria means solving a horrible array of intertwined, intractable problems.
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Research fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
