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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
A Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism	Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen	January, 2018 to December, 2020
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+	Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve Sin	July, 2018 to April, 2020
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)	Barnett S. Koven	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database	Marcus A. Boyd	January, 2019 to December, 2019
Updates to the Big, Allied, and Dangerous (BAAD) Dataset	Victor Asal	January, 2019 to December, 2019
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset	Gina Scott Ligon	January, 2019 to December, 2019
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space	Steve Sin, Marcus A. Boyd	September, 2016 to September, 2019
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban	Barnett S. Koven	February, 2019 to August, 2019
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia	Barnett S. Koven	March, 2018 to June, 2018
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence		January, 2018 to June, 2018
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs	William Braniff	June, 2016 to May, 2017
Framing Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West	Peter Neumann	July, 2012 to December, 2015
Failure Points in Smuggling Networks	Brandon Behlendorf	September, 2013 to March, 2015
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism	Arie Kruglanski, Jarret Brachman, Michele Gelfand	July, 2012 to December, 2014
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction	Gina Scott Ligon	November, 2014
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion	Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Roberta Belli	July, 2012 to December, 2013
The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal, Gary LaFree	October, 2008 to December, 2012
Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States	Kathleen Smarick	October, 2010 to December, 2011
Martyrs without Borders: Iraq's Foreign Fighters and the Third Generation of Global Jihad	Mohammed Hafez	June, 2008 to May, 2011
Where the Extremes May Touch: The Potential for Collaboration Between Islamist, Right- and Left-Wing Extremists	Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey Bale	July, 2005 to September, 2009
Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorist Networks	Alan Neustadtl, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	June, 2006 to June, 2009
Militant Islamist Networks in the West	Jeffrey Bale	July, 2005 to April, 2008

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
The Nature of the Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist Attacks	April 2008	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Is Islamist Terrorism More Dangerous?: An Empirical Study of Group Ideology, Organization, and Goal Structure	January 2009	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Online Networks of the Italian and German Extreme Right: An Explorative Study with Social Network Analysis	February 2009	Caiani, Manuela	Journal Article
Islamism and Totalitarianism	June 2009	Bale, Jeffrey	Journal Article
Hezbollah's Social Jihad: Nonprofits as Resistance Organizations	June 2009	Flanigan, Shawn	Journal Article
Hizballah as a Social Movement Organization: A Framing Approach	November 2009	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia	June 2010	Mincheva, Lyubov; Gurr, Ted Robert	Book Chapter
’Unholy Alliances’: How Transnational Terrorists and Crime Make Common Cause	November 2010	Mincheva, Lyubov; Gurr, Ted Robert	Book Chapter
Locating Al Qaeda's Center of Gravity: The Role of Middle Managers	October 2011	Neumann, Peter	Journal Article
Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization	October 2011	Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
Al Qaeda's Post-9/11 Evolution: An Assessment	November 2011	Moghadam, Assaf; Braniff, William	Book Chapter
Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States	January 2012	della Porta, Donatella; Caiani, Manuela	Book
Towards Global Jihadism: Al-Qaeda's Strategic, Ideological and Structural Adaptations since 9/11	June 2012	Moghadam, Assaf; Braniff, William	Journal Article
Crime-Terror Alliances and the State: Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security	January 2013	Mincheva, Lyubov	Book
Terrorism and the North Caucasus: An Overview	April 2013	Johns, Mila	Background Report
Networks as strategic repertoires: Functional differentiation among Al-Shabaab terror cells	May 2013	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade	May 2013	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Breiger, Ronald	Journal Article
Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD)	September 2013	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Project Fact Sheet
Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing	November 2013	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Lethal Connections: The Determinants of Network Connections in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, 1970–1998	January 2014	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Alliance Hubs: Focal Points in the International Terrorist Landscape	May 2014	Bacon, Tricia	Journal Article
Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity	June 2014	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
The Nexus between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting	July 2014	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Report
Spotting the Threat	July 2014	Neumann, Peter	Journal Article
Exploring the U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks and Trade Diversion	October 2014	Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta; Chermak, Steven	Research Brief
Psychology Not Theology: Overcoming ISIS' Secret Appeal	October 2014	Kruglanski, Arie	Op-ed
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction	November 2014	Ligon, Gina Scott; Simi, Peter	START Reports
Boko Haram: An Assessment of Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Options	January 2015	Pate, Amy	START Reports
Enemies with Benefits? Violent Rivalry and Terrorist Group Longevity	January 2015	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Hurdles to International Terrorist Alliances: Lessons from Al Qaeda's Experience	February 2015	Bacon, Tricia	Journal Article
Building Terrorism from Social Ties: The Dark Side of Social Capital	February 2015	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism	February 2015	Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
Mapping and Deterring Violent Extremist Networks in North-West Africa	April 2015	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Western Muslims Volunteering to fight in Syria and Iraq: Why do they go, and what should we do?	July 2015	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Journal Article
A Tale of Two Caliphates: Al-Qaida and its Associated Movement vs. the Islamic State and its Associated Movement	September 2015	Braniff, William	Presentation
Big, Allied And Dangerous (BAAD) Fact Sheet	October 2015	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Project Fact Sheet
Exploring the Crime-Terror Nexus in the United States: A Social Network Analysis of a Hezbollah Network Involved in Trade Diversion	October 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Only the Bad Die Young: The Correlates of Organizational Death for Far-Right Extremist Groups	December 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
With Friends Like These…Why Terrorist Organizations Ally	January 2016	Ackerman, Gary; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
An Analysis of Violent Nonstate Actor Organizational Lethality and Network Co-Evoluation in the Middle East and North Africa	February 2016	Young, Joseph; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	START Reports
Catch Them Coming and Going: Probabilistic Pathway Projection to Counter Foreign Fighters	March 2016	Boyd, Marcus A.	START Reports
Cross-Milieu Terrorist Collaboration: Using Game Theory to Assess the Risk of a Novel Threat	April 2016	Ackerman, Gary; Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Probabilistic Pathway Projection to Counter Foreign Fighters	April 2016	Boyd, Marcus A.	Research Brief
Terrorism, Radicalization and De-radicalization	June 2016	Kruglanski, Arie	Journal Article
Momin Khawaja: Mechanisms of Radicalization	August 2016	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	START Reports
NGO Interventions: Influences on Terrorist Activity	August 2016	Hodwitz, Omi	Journal Article
A Preliminary Typology Mapping Pathways of Learning and Innovation by Modern Jihadist Groups	September 2016	Singh, Rashmi	Journal Article
Changing Organizational Structures of Jihadist Networks in the Netherlands	October 2016	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Social Network Analysis of German Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq	February 2017	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
Recruitment and Selection in Violent Extremist Organizations: Exploring What Industrial and Organizational Psychology Might Contribute	April 2017	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
Marriage of Convenience: The Evolution of Iran and al-Qa'ida's Tactical Cooperation	April 2017	Moghadam, Assaf	Journal Article
Nexus of Global Jihad: Understanding Cooperation Among Terrorist Actors	May 2017	Moghadam, Assaf	Book
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States	May 2017	Pyrooz, David C.; LaFree, Gary; James, Patrick; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
Women in the White Supremacist Movement	July 2017	Yates, Elizabeth	Book Chapter
Political Fragmentation and Alliances among Armed Non-state Actors in North and Western Africa (1997–2014)	September 2017	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Do 90 Percent of Terrorist Groups Last Less Than a Year? Updating the Conventional Wisdom	September 2017	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Lethal Combinations: Studying the Structure of Terrorist Networks	September 2017	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Book Chapter
Al Qaeda and the Islamic State's Break: Strategic Strife or Lackluster Leadership?	October 2017	Bacon, Tricia	Journal Article
Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism	November 2017	Singh, Rashmi	Book
Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend? How Terrorist Groups Select Partners	January 2018	Bacon, Tricia	Journal Article
The Social Psychological Makings of a Terrorist	February 2018	Kruglanski, Arie	Journal Article
Cultivating Trust and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Online Counternarratives Intended to Reduce Support for Terrorism	April 2018	Braddock, Kurt	Journal Article
Loners, Colleagues, or Peers? Assessing the Social Organization of Radicalization	April 2018	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
ISIS: Its History, Ideology, and Psychology	April 2018	Kruglanski, Arie	Book Chapter
Headhunting Among Extremist Organizations: An Empirical Assessment of Talent Spotting	April 2018	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
Mapping Today's Jihadi Landscape and Threat	May 2018	Moghadam, Assaf	Journal Article
Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing	May 2018	Leuprecht, Christian	Book Chapter
Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances	May 2018	Bacon, Tricia	Book
Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings	June 2018	Breiger, Ronald	Journal Article
Terrorist Group Survival as a Measure of Effectiveness	June 2018	Phillips, Brian	Book Chapter
How “Alone” are Lone-Actors? Exploring the Ideological, Signaling, and Support Networks of Lone-Actor Terrorists	October 2018	Hofmann, David	Journal Article
Al-Qaida and Al-Shabaab: A Resilient Alliance	January 2019	Bacon, Tricia	Book Chapter
Fratricide in Rebel Movements: A Network Analysis of Syrian Militant Infighting	January 2019	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
Networks of Cooperation: Rebel Alliances in Fragmented Civil Wars	February 2019	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
Terrorist Group Rivalries and Alliances: Testing Competing Explanations	August 2019	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
The Rise and Endurance of Radical Right Movements	September 2019	Caiani, Manuela	Journal Article
Do Machines Replicate Humans? Toward a Unified Understanding of Radicalizing Content on the Open Social Web	September 2019	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
Islamist Terrorism, Diaspora Links and Casualty Rates	October 2019	LaFree, Gary; Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Networks, Power, and the Effects of Legitimacy in Contentious Politics	January 2020	Milward, H. Brinton	Journal Article
Rebel Group Attrition and Reversion to Violence: Micro-Level Evidence from Syria	January 2020	Mironova, Vera	Journal Article
Fratricidal Rebels: Ideological Extremity and Warring Factionalism in Civil Wars	April 2020	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure	April 2020	Koven, Barnett S.; Lindquist, Katy; Erdemandi, Max	Project Fact Sheet
Contextualizing Disengagement: How Exit Barriers Shape the Pathways Out of Far-Right Extremism in the United States	May 2020	Yates, Elizabeth; Jensen, Michael; James, Patrick	Journal Article
Women Too: Explaining Gender Ideologies of Ethnopolitical Organizations	May 2020	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Doing Good while Killing: Why Some Insurgent Groups Provide Community Services	May 2020	Flanigan, Shawn; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Understanding Recruitment to Organized Crime and Terrorism	June 2020	Weisburd, David	Book
Cumulative Disruptions: Interdependency and Commitment Escalation as Mechanisms of Illicit Network Failure	September 2020	Behlendorf, Brandon	Journal Article
Impact of Perceived Peer Attitudes and Social Network Diversity on Violent Extremist Intentions	September 2020	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia	December 2020	Henkin, Samuel D.	START Reports
The Three Percenters: A Look Inside an Anti-Government Militia	March 2021	Beutel, Alejandro	Report
The Three N Approach to Strategies for United States Government Information Operations	May 2021	Kruglanski, Arie	White Paper
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia	December 2021	Henkin, Samuel D.	Report
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah	December 2021		Report
Extremist Group/Movement Affiliations of the January 6 Capitol Rioters	May 2022	Jensen, Michael	Map
Terrorism and Conspiracy Theories: A View from the 3N Model of Radicalization	June 2022	Kruglanski, Arie	Journal Article

Title	Byline
New START model forecasts the flow of foreign fighters	Jessica Rivinius
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines	Valerie Snaman
Financing terrorism through trade diversion	Lauren Sagl
Dagher discusses ISIL in Iraq and new public opinion data	Charlotte Taylor
Rassler delves into the intricacies of the Haqqani Nexus	Charlotte Taylor
Discussion Point: The Prospective Military Power of Al Qaeda Affiliated Groups in the Syrian Conflict	Aaron Lin, Daniel Smith, Ryan Pereira
Background Report: Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
START Newsletter: US beliefs before, after Boston bombings; Terrorist targeting of civilians; Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis
A Discussion with Dr. Matthew Levitt, Author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God	Laura Walker
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
Al-Shabaab Attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya
START Symposium showcases impactful research, datasets	Mary Beck, Jessica Rivinius
START researchers awarded top honors for applying marketing framework to violent groups	Jessica Rivinius
New study examines terrorism in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand	Emily Smith
Hegghammer explains variation in western jihadists	J.R. Taylor
START Research Brief: Al-Shabaab's use of Twitter
Research Roundtable details the patterns of terrorism worldwide	Emily Bonta
New database provides insights into terrorism countermeasures	Catherine Llamido
Remittances and the financing of terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa	Catherine Llamido
START launches new tool for counterterrorism community
Terrorism Studies Minor information sessions
LaFree speaks at National Institute of Justice conference	Emily Bonta
Database Spotlight: Muslim Public Opinion and Public Opinion in the Islamic World on Terrorism, al Qaeda and U.S. Policies	Nicholas Munson
Database spotlight: Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD)	Emily Bonta
START welcomes visiting scholar	Claire Simon
Al-Qaida's fatal terrorism under Osama bin Laden
New study shows alliances and not religious ideology are key to forecasting CBRN pursuit
Summer courses for credit through START
START investigator and former TRA recipient publish book on the mobilization of right-wing extremism	Samantha Goldman
Research Roundtable features expert on policing terrorism	Samantha Goldman
START research informs Senate report on Chesser
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research	Jessica Rivinius
Leading terrorism expert discusses mobilization of women into terrorist networks	Samantha Goldman
Terrorism studies graduate certificate application deadline is quickly approaching	Kelly Kline
LaFree Discusses Terrorism Myths and Realities
START Assesses Impact of 9/11
START Researchers Present at American Political Science Association Annual Conference
START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference
START Announces 2011-2012 Terrorism Research Award Participants
START Researchers Featured in Journal of Homeland Security
START releases new data collections
START Response to Death of bin Laden
2011-2012 Background Report Undergraduate Terrorism Analysis Training (UTAT) Program Application Deadline Extended
Press Release: START Panel Addresses Key Questions in Terrorism
Have you seen it yet? START Research Review
START Announces 2009 Curriculum Development Grant Recipients
New Research Brief Released: The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
Secretary Ridge announces creation of terrorism center

Title	Job Title	Institution
Erin Miller	GTD Program Manager, START	University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman	Associate Professor, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
Gary LaFree	Founding Director, START; Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice	University of Maryland
Kurt Braddock	Assistant Professor, American University	American University
Marcus A. Boyd	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START Director of Graduate Studies, START	University of Maryland
Michael Jensen	Senior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Michelle Jacome	Operations Officer on International Finance Cooperation at the World Bank
Peter Simi	Associate Professor, Chapman University Director, Earl Babbie Research Center	Chapman University
R. Karl Rethemeyer	Associate Professor of Public Administration & Policy	University at Albany, State University of New York
Samuel D. Henkin	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Sheehan Kane	Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START	University of Maryland
Steve Sin	Director, Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) Subject Matter Expert Instructor, National Center for Security & Preparedness	University of Maryland
Thomas Guarrieri	Director of Undergraduate Studies Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons & Technology (UWT) Division, START	University of Maryland
Victor Asal	Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration	University at Albany, State University of New York