“Justice Has a Bad Side”: Figurations of Law and Justice in 21st-Century Superhero Movies by Nicole Maruo-Schröder

“…Although they are critical of the loss of a democratic conception of justice, in which laws and the ways they are upheld and enforced are subject to independent control instances, the films also emphasize the necessity of suspending laws during crisis situations, thus supporting an ongoing state of exception in the face of contemporary terrorist threats.…”
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Traumatic Peregrinations: Intergenerational Memory and Migration in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland by Anastasia Ulanowicz

“…This essay analyzes images of both movement and immobility in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland, a Canadian graphic memoir in which the author/illustrator traces her father’s involvement in a Serbian nationalist terrorist cell. Although, as scholars such as Mihaela Precup have convincingly argued, Bunjevac depicts her father as trapped by historical circumstances he cannot control—and her larger family as “frozen in disbelief, anger, and sadness” (220)—I maintain that such immobility is paradoxically the consequence of constant movement. …”
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Thinking Mythologically: Black Hawk Down, the “Platoon Movie,” and the War of Choice in Iraq by Richard Slotkin

“…“Bush . . . told his aides that America’s hasty exit from Somalia after 18 soldiers died in the 1993 raid made famous in the movie . . . emboldened America’s terrorist enemies” to attack us on September 11. This study explains the ideological force of Black Hawk Down by framing it as the culmination of developments in American national mythology, and the mass culture genres that carry it. …”
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Was there really a siege of Kaffa by the Mongols in 1346 the first biological war? And what was the aftermath? by Christensen Carsten Sander

“…This is not only a historical interest but also relevant to current efforts to evaluate the threat of military or terrorist use of biological weapons. Based on published translations of the de’ Mussi’s manuscript and other 14th-century accounts of the Black Death it can be concluded that the Mongol attack was a biological warfare at Kaffa and provides the best explanation of the plague entry into the city. …”
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TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LIMITS OF APPLICATION OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA IN THE FIELD OF COUNTERING EXTREMIST ACTIVITIES by USM ADMIN

“…Keywords: extremist activity; fanaticism; fundamentalism; extremism; radicalism; terrorism; terrorist activity; reason for prejudice; the extremist motive; extremist materials; propaganda; agitation; call. …”
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Behavior of Full-Scale Porous GFRP Barrier under Blast Loads by D. Asprone, A. Prota, G. Manfredi, A. Nanni

“…This research paper is part of the SAS (Security of Airport Structures) Project funded by the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection, whose objective was to develop and deploy a fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) fencing system intended to protect airport infrastructures against terrorist acts. In the paper, the efficacy of the proposed glass FRP discontinuous (porous) barrier under blast loads is presented by showing the results of the blast test campaign conducted on full-size specimens with a focus on the reduction of the blast shock wave induced by the barrier. …”
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Harmonie, la critique d’un « totalitarisme mou » par un roman japonais by Thomas Michaud

“…Young girls oppose this system according to a suicidal and terrorist rhetoric urging them to fight against a liberticidal "medicracy". …”
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Retour à la page blanche après le choc du 11 Septembre by Yves Davo

“…By refusing to represent the event, by erasing the frames themselves, the author questions the role of narration after such a terrorist attempt of erasure, an ethical position which eventually needs to be discussed.…”
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International Criminalization of International Terrorizm by A. G. Volevodz

“…The author notes that differences in definitions that are enshrined in them hinders international cooperation in criminal matters with respect to terrorist cases. Difficulties reside in the necessity to meet the dual criminality requirement and in the political offense exception. …”
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Trump and the Al Qaeda and ISIS Networks in Africa by Christopher Griffin

“…Trump, however, has changed the US strategy from an emphasis on foreign aid and peacekeeping to a focus on the use of significant military force and firepower to defeat Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist groups. The wars in Africa fit into Trump’s worldwide war on terrorism aimed at destroying Al Qaeda and ISIS, and in which the administration is prepared to accept significant American casualties.…”
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Terror and Contemplation from Habermas and Chomsky to Derrida: A Formal and Content Critique of the Book Terror and Contemplation by Majid Hosseini, Meisam Ghahreman

“…In a general criticism, all of the above-mentioned viewpoints about a historiography of a terrorist event (each one from a specific perspective) have their own defects, and this has been acting as a block against making a comparison between terror and contemplation; consequently, it leads to better understand the phenomenon with different dimensions, and in the critiques, an attempt has been made to pay attention to it.…”
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Gender Perspective in the Studies of War by T. V. Skorospelova

“…The second section focuses on perceptions of new gender roles of women at war, which include the images of a woman as a soldier and a terrorist, both in the academic discourse and in the media. …”
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A Modified -Median Model for the Emergency Facilities Location Problem and Its Variable Neighbourhood Search-Based Algorithm by Menghao Xi, Feng Ye, Zhong Yao, Qiuhong Zhao

“…Emergency incidents, including natural disasters, terrorist attacks, public health outbreaks, and industrial and mining accidents, and so forth, result in severe human casualties and property losses. …”
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"Out there in that cabin in the middle of nowhere in Montana": Narrating the Geographical and Mental Deviance of the Unabomber by Robert Winkler

“…In 1996, the mathematician-turned-terrorist Theodore J. Kaczynski, nicknamed the Unabomber, was arrested in his self-built cabin in the woods of Montana after having terrorized the nation for over 20 years. …”
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The impact of the Hamas-Israel conflict on the U.S. defense industry stock market return. by Jeroen Klomp

“…On October 7th, 2023, Hamas carried out a terrorist attack on Israel. The Israeli government promptly retaliated the attack with massive bombing and a major military operation in the Gaza Strip. …”
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Leadership Networks as a Tool of Coercion in World Politics by A. I. Podberezkin, O. A. Podberezkina

“…Social media analysis is widely used in economics, sociology, in medical studies of spreading infectious diseases and in forensic science to stop terrorist networks and drug proliferation. Social media analysis is also used in political sphere. …”
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The Impact of Suicide Attacks on Voting Behavior: The Case of November 2015 Early Elections by Ceren Yegen

“…The participants supported the government in case of the suicide attacks and other terrorist attacks. The majority of the participants believed thatthe suicide attack, whichtook place in the train station intersection in Ankara,would have no effect on the behaviors of the voters for the Early Elections of November 1, 2015.…”
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Structure and subjects of information policy by A. A. Ebzeev, O. A. Sudorgin, V. F. Nitsevich, O. A. Nesterchuk

“…The use of the information space by terrorist and extremist organizations deprived of their official status for their own purposes is analyzed.…”
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Sulla (ri)articolazione della “marocchinità” nel Marocco contemporaneo, tra festivalizzazione del dissenso giovanile e revival sufi by Michela Buonvino

“…After September 11, 2001, and following terrorist attacks in Casablanca, the Moroccan monarchy was engaged in redefining a field of the sacred, which involved the neutralization of Salafist tendencies and their replacement with a Sufism deemed harmless and incapable of threatening the nation's spiritual security. …”
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THE AXIS OF EVIL: THE ALLIANCE OF NEO-CONSERVATISM AND NEO-ORIENTALISM IN RUSHDIE’S SHALIMAR THE CLOWN / ŞEYTAN ÜÇGENİ: SALMAN RUSHDİE’NİN SOYTARI ŞALİMAR ROMANINDA AŞIRI SAĞCI NEO... by Beyazıt AKMAN

“…It is argued that rather than questioning the assumptions about the “<em>Islamic</em> terrorist” and its place in the Western collective conscious, Rushdie reinforces and licenses the intellectual neo-orientalist discourse of “the axis of evil” perpetuated by the Bush administration by applying the stereotypes and clichés about the East, without engaging in a dialogue to understand the Other or historicizing the subject matter. …”
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