Click here for free access to the recent special issue of Perspectives on Terrorism (2012, Vol. 6, No. 4-5) containing several high quality research articles on terrorist group decision-making. You can also download the entire PDF file (186 pages) at this link.

Information about my new book. The Terrorism Lectures, is now available at the publisher’s website: 

http://www.nortiapress.com/Terrorism_Lectures.html

You can also view the new Facebook page for the book, at http://www.facebook.com/TerrorismLectures

Here are my remarks and slides from this morning’s speech at the TransAtlantic Dialogue meeting.

JForest-CrimeTerror_Dialogue_June2012

Here is a copy of my recent JSOU report on Boko Haram, the terrorist group in northern Nigeria.

For more publications from Joint Special Operations University Press, please click here

Great new CTC report, available online at:
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/letters-from-abbottabad-bin-ladin-sidelined

This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). They consist of electronic letters or draft letters, totaling 175 pages in the original Arabic and 197 pages in the English translation. The earliest is dated September 2006 and the latest April 2011.  These internal al-Qa`ida communications were authored by several  leaders, most prominently Usama bin Ladin.  In contrast to his public statements that focused on the injustice of those he believed to be the “enemies” of Muslims, namely corrupt “apostate” Muslim rulers and their Western “overseers,” the focus of Bin Ladin’s private letters is Muslims’ suffering at the hands of his jihadi “brothers”. He is at pain advising them to abort domestic attacks that cause Muslim civilian casualties and focus on the United States, “our desired goal.” Bin Ladin’s frustration with regional jihadi groups and his seeming inability to exercise control over their actions and public statements is the most compelling story to be told on the basis of the 17 de-classified documents. “Letters from Abbottabad” is an initial exploration and contextualization of 17 documents that will be the grist for future academic debate and discussion.

Click here to see my latest work in a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence, addressing the topic of intersections between criminals and terrorists.

Click here to read my recent article in Perspectives on Terrorism (Vol. 6, No. 1):  “Perception Challenges Faced by Al-Qaeda on the Battlefield of Influence Warfare”

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND TERRORISM
Edited by
James J.F. Forest and Russell D. Howard

Second Edition
(New York: McGraw-Hill, March 16, 2012)
821 Pages. ISBN-13: 9780078026225

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Preface

More information is available on the website http://www.wmdterror.net

For anyone interested in the “homegrown terrorism” threat in the U.S., here’s an interesting new report and data source:

http://homegrown.newamerica.net/overview

Cheers

James

The Feb. 2012 issue of the CTC Sentinel is now available, at:
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/publications/sentinel

The Praeger Security International book series on Terrorists, Insurgents and other Armed Groups is now in its third year of publication. Recent volumes  have included the Army of God, PKK, ETIM, Phinehas Priesthood and PLO.

We are accepting proposals for new manuscripts. Please see the following web page for more details:  http://www.teachingterror.net/PSI/

Please see the following web page for information on submitting articles to the journal Perspectives on Terrorism.

http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

I’ve taken on a new role as Associate Editor of this journal. If you have something you’d like to submit for consideration, please let me know.

My Op-Ed piece, co-authored with Vanda Felbab-Brown, is available online at the Brookings website [ Click Here ]

Here are two recent perspectives on the increasing Boko Haram-related violence in northern Nigeria:

1. The Economist (Jan. 14 2012 issue): http://www.economist.com/node/21542764

1. an Op-Ed that I co-authored (Jan. 12 2012): http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0112/Nigeria-s-Boko-Haram-attacks-are-misunderstood-as-regional-Islamist-threat

I’ve also just completed a monograph on Boko Haram, for Joint Special Operations University Press, currently under final review. Quite a terrorism hotspot these days . . .

See page 7 of the attached conference report from the threat convergence summit in Zurich

Zurich Conference Final Report