Assessing Inspire Magazine’s 10th Edition By Scott Stewart [ VP of Analysis at STRATFOR ] Republished with permission of Stratfor. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released the 10th edition of its English-language magazine, Inspire, on March 1. After discussing its contents with our analytical team, initially I decided not Continue Reading
Terrorist Groups
America’s Far-Right Extremists
An excellent new report on violent far-right extremists, published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, is available here. This study provides a conceptual foundation for understanding different far-right groups and then presents the empirical analysis of violent incidents to identify those perpetrating attacks and their associated trends. Through Continue Reading
New book – Crime and Terror Intersections
My newest book has just been released by Taylor and Francis. Details are available online at: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415639613/
Terrorist Group Decision-Making
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.
New book: The Terrorism Lectures
Information about my new book. The Terrorism Lectures, is now available at the publisher’s website:Â http://www.nortiapress.com/shop/nonfiction/forest-terrorism-lectures/ You can also view the new Facebook page for the book, at http://www.facebook.com/TerrorismLectures
Crime & Terror Pipelines speech
Here are my remarks and slides from this morning’s speech at the TransAtlantic Dialogue meeting. JForest-CrimeTerror_Dialogue_June2012
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Attacks
My Op-Ed piece, co-authored with Vanda Felbab-Brown, is available online at the Brookings website [ Click Here ]
Re: Boko Haram in Nigeria
Here are two recent perspectives on the increasing Boko Haram-related violence in northern Nigeria: The Economist (Jan. 14 2012 issue): http://www.economist.com/node/21542764 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 Continue Reading
Terrorism in Africa
Here is a link to the recent special issue of the journal Perspectives on Terrorism, which addresses Terrorism in Africa. http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot CONTENTS Terrorism and Political Violence in Africa: Contemporary Trends in a Shifting Terrain James J.F. Forest, Jennifer Giroux Terrorism in Liberation Struggles: Interrogating the Engagement Tactics of the Movement Continue Reading
Article on State Weakness
Just published a piece in the Netherlands-based NATO journal Atlantic Perspective. Here’s a link to the issue: http://www.atlcom.nl/upload/AP_2011_nr__6.pdf Ungoverned Territories: Engaging local nongovernmental entities in U.S. security strategy State weakness has become a prime concern for U.S. national security, and so-called ‘ungoverned territories’ are central to this concern. However, we Continue Reading