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Countering Terror in Transition: A Typology of Terrorist Organization Successors and their Vulnerabilities

Post author By Tricia L. Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm
Post date November 15, 2022

"File:Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri 2001.jpg" by Hamid Mir is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dr. Tricia Bacon is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University. Dr. Elizabeth Grimm is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. One of the singular challenges for a terrorist organization is how to transition to another leader after the founder’s death. For the […]

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Africa Regional Security & Conflict Uncategorized

The African Union’s Institutional Approach to Transnational Terrorism

Post author By Linda McMullen
Post date April 6, 2020

This paper examines the African Union’s (AU) institutional approach to transnational terrorism. Specifically, its approaches in combating Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Boko Haram, and al-Shabaab.

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Asia Pacific Civil Society Governance & Law Security & Conflict

The Evolution of FATA Land into a Hub of Terrorism

Post author By The SAIS Review
Post date December 15, 2016

Author Ahmad Shah Katawazai discusses the development of terrorist elements in the largely ungoverned Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, describes its implications for regional and international security, and offers policy prescriptions to combat the continued growth of extremism in the FATA.