Some Things We Think We've Learned Since 9/11: A Commentary on Marc Sageman's “The Stagnation in Terrorism Research”

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Christian Leuprecht, Todd Hataley, Sophia Moskalenko, and Clark McCauley, “Containing the Narrative: Strategy and Tactics in Countering the Storyline of Global Jihad,” Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism 5, no. 1 (2010): 42–57. Ibid. Clark McCauley and Sarah Scheckter, “What's Special About US Muslims? The War on Terrorism as Seen by Muslims in the United States, Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, and Indonesia,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 31, no. 11 (2008): 1024–1031. Clark McCauley, Christian Leuprecht, Todd Hataley, Conrad Winn, and Bidisha Biswas, “Tracking the War of Ideas: A Poll of Ottawa Muslims,” Terrorism and Political Violence 23, no. 5 (2011): 804–819. George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, United States Capitol, Washington, DC, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html 1/27/2014. Clark McCauley, “Ideas Versus Actions in Relation to Polls of US Muslims,” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 13, no. 1 (2013): 70–76. Leuprecht et al., “Containing the Narrative” (see note 1 above). Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko, “Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Moves an Individual From Radical Opinion to Radical Action,” Terrorism and Political Violence 26, no. 1 (2014): 69–85. Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko, Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Ibid., Chapter 9: Group Competition. John Horgan, Leaving Terrorism Behind: An Individual Perspective (Chichester: John Wiley, 2003). McCauley and Moskalenko, “Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists” (see note 8 above). Ibid. Metin Turcan and Clark McCauley, “Boomerang: Opinion Versus Action in the Radicalization of Abu-Mulal al-Balawi,” Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 3, no. 1 (2010): 14–31. Emmanuel Karagiannis and Clark McCauley, “Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: Evaluating the Threat Posed by a Radical Islamic Group that Remains Nonviolent,” Terrorism and Political Violence 18, no. 2 (2006): 315–334. Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, and Raven Korte, “The Impact of British Counterterrorist Strategies on Political Violence in Northern Ireland: Comparing Deterrence and Backlash Models,” Criminology 47, no. 1 (2009): 17–45. Clark McCauley, “Group Desistance from Terrorism: A Dynamic Perspective,” Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 1, no. 3 (2008): 269–293. McCauley and Moskalenko, Friction (see note 9 above), Chapter 13: Martyrdom. Clark McCauley, Discussion Point: Introducing “Political Resilience” (College Park, MD: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (NC-START), August 31, 2012), http://www.start.umd.edu/news/discussion-point-introducing-political-resilience. Additional informationNotes on contributorsClark McCauleyClark McCauley is a Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College; Co-Director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict; and Editor of the journal Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.Sophia MoskalenkoSophia Moskalenko is a Social Psychologist working on questions of radicalization at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland, and is also affiliated with the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict.