by editor | Jul 9, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has released a new white paper, entitled How Islamist Extremists Quote the Qur’an. The study is based on of over 1500 verse citations from over 2000 items of extremist propaganda collected as part of our extremist narrative project....
by admin | May 21, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Islam, Language, Publications, Religion, Southeast Asia
The CSC has released a new white paper by Inayah Rohmaniyah and Mark Woodward entitled Wahhabi Perspectives on Pluralism and Gender: A Saudi – Indonesian Contrast. The paper is available here and the executive summary follows: In public discourse about Islam,...
by admin | May 17, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Bruce Gregory* ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller, “Arab Youth Survey 2012,” May 2, 2012. In this fourth annual survey of young Arabs in 12 countries, 82 percent say economic concerns, “fair pay and home ownership,” are their top priority,...
by admin | May 17, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Complexity, Counterterrorism, Islam, Military, Narrative, Politics, Publications, Religion, Sharia
by Jeffry R. Halverson The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) has released a short monograph, De-Legitimizing al-Qaeda: A Jihad-Realist Approach, by sociologist Paul Kamolnick, a professor at Eastern Tennessee State University. Kamolnick criticizes current US efforts...
by admin | Apr 24, 2012 | Afghanistan, COMOPS Journal, Framing, Publications, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has an article in the current issue of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism on casualty inflation by the Taliban in the Afghanistan conflict. The abstract follows, and the full text is available here (subscription). Cooking the Books:...
by editor | Mar 11, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Publications, Strategic Comm.
CSC members H. L. Goodall, Jr, Pauline Hope Cheong, Kristin Fleischer and Steven R. Corman have just published a new article in Perspectives on Terrorism. The abstract is below, and the article is available (free) here. Rhetorical Charms: The Promise and Pitfalls of...