Research at FSI Stanford

Terrorism and counterterrorism

Research topic

Publications

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Variation in Western Jihadists' Choice between Domestic and Foreign Fighting
Thomas Hegghammer
American Political Science Review (2013)
Will Threats Deter Nuclear Terrorism?
Martha Crenshaw
Stanford Security Studies (2012)
Reaction Time
Martha Crenshaw
Foreign Policy (2012)
Torture Creep
Amy Zegart
Foreign Policy (2012)
Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns
Patrick Johnston
International Security vol. 36, 4 (2012)

Radiological Terrorism: A Risk Based Perspective
May 6, 2013 CISAC Science Seminar
Leonard Connell
Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture of Counterterrorism
April 11, 2013 CISAC Social Science Seminar
Robert Chesney, Shirin Sinnar
Peaceful Fusion? - The Use of Fusion Power and the Nuclear Order in the 21st Century
April 1, 2013 CISAC Science Seminar
Matthias Englert
Why Rebels Return: The Micro-Foundations of Surrender in Civil War
February 28, 2013 CISAC Social Science Seminar
Joseph Felter
Protecting Rights from Within? Inspectors General and National Security Oversight
February 14, 2013 CISAC Social Science Seminar
Shirin Sinnar, David Lazarus

Surveillance exposures more of a wake-up call than an alarm to terrorists
CISAC in the news: Bloomberg News on June 11, 2013
Syria's chemical weapons could intensify civil war and regional instability
May 15, 2013 CISAC in the news
British Islamist fighters in Syria a cause for concern
CISAC in the news: The Economist on May 4, 2013
The good, the bad, and the ugly of aviation security
Foreign Policy on January 19, 2012
Terrorism remains a thorn in every U.S. president's side
CISAC in the news: Foreign Policy on November 12, 2012
1962 or 2012? Intelligence agencies still failing 50 years on
CISAC in the news: Foreign Policy on October 10, 2012