Abstract A vast amount of social science research has been dedicated to the study Islamist extremism – in particular, uncover its psychological and structural drivers. However, recent revival extreme-right points need investigate this re-emerging phenomenon. This article highlights some characteristics extremisation Islamism Europe parallel with rise right-wing extremist groups. In doing so, we...

The article examines the affective potential of populist civilizational discourse. It reflects on two prevalent, opposing, identities to render visible their shared fantasmatic grounding. With reference far right and Islamist configurations, aims reveal hidden disguised elements discourse that I contend give it power. Drawing theory centralizes antagonism in social identification, use performan...

How does terrorism affect citizens’ political attitudes? Over the years, many scholars have tried to answer this question. This article performs a meta-analysis on literature, reviewing about 325 studies conducted between 1985 and 2020 more than 400,000 respondents. The findings confirm that is associated—to small but significant extent—with outgroup hostility, conservatism rally-‘round-the-fla...

In July 2011, the Pakistani public unexpectedly learnt that the CIA had conducted a fake vaccination campaign as part of the operations to capture Osama Bin Laden. This episode was extensively used by Taliban groups to discredit the health system and vaccination campaigns. We implement a Difference-in-Differences strategy to document the effect of the disclosure of this information on demand fo...

Abstract A recently published paper in this journal (Choi, 2021) establishes a statistical link between, on the one hand, Islamist terrorist campaigns – including attacks and online propaganda and, other growth of Muslim population. The author explains result by stating that successful lead some individuals to convert Islam. In commentary, we intend reply article focusing impact religious conve...