Journal Articles by Date
2026. Cragin, R. Kim. “From Theory to Policy: The Four Waves and U.S. Counterterrorism,” Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol 83, 9 March. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2025.2601816
2025. Cragin, R. Kim. “Foreign Fighters: A Threat in Stasis,” CTC Sentinel, November-December. https://ctc.westpoint.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CTC-SENTINEL-112025_article-6.pdf
2024. Cragin, R. Kim. “Confronting Irregular Warfare in the South China Sea: Lessons Learned from Vietnam,” Military Review, November-December. https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/Nov-Dec-2024/IW-South-China-Sea/.
2024. Cragin, R. Kim. “The Elusive Promise of Over-the-Horizon Counterterrorism,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, published online 27 June 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2024.2371489
2022. Cragin, R. Kim. “Virtual and Physical Realities: Violent Extremists’ Recruitment of Individuals Associated with the US Military,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, published online 18 October 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2022.2133346
2020. Fenzel, Michael R., Leslie Slootmaker, and R. Kim Cragin, “The Strategic Potential of Collected Exploitable Material,” Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 99, 19 November. https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/2420897/the-strategic-potential-of-collected-exploitable-material/
2020. Cragin, R. Kim. “Tactical Partnerships for Strategic Effects: Recent Experiences of US Forces Working By, With, and Through Surrogates in Syria and Libya,” Defense Studies, Online release August 2020, https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702436.2020.1807338
2019. Cragin, R. Kim. “Preventing the Next Wave of Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Lessons Learned from the Experiences of Algeria and Tunisia, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Online release February 2019, https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2019.1568005.
2018. Cragin, R. Kim and Ari Weil. “Virtual Planners in the Arsenal of Islamic State External Operations,” Orbis, Spring 2018, https://www.fpri.org/article/2018/04/virtual-planners-in-the-arsenal-of-islamic-state-external-operations/ or [Virtual Planners]
2017. Cragin, R. Kim. “Metastases: Exploring the Impact of Foreign Fighters in Conflicts Abroad,” Journal of Strategic Studies, accepted manuscript, October 2017. Online release November 2017, http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/sIySvhZfYHVYq84mIvhQ/full, or http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2017.1402766.
2017. Cragin, R. Kim. “The Challenge of Foreign Fighter Returnees,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, accepted manuscript, February 2017. Online release April 2017, Published July 2017, available online at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043986217697872.
2017. Cragin, R. Kim. “The November 2015 Paris Attacks: The Impact of Foreign Fighter Returnees,” Orbis, Spring 2017, [November 2015 Paris Attacks] or http://www.fpri.org/article/2017/03/november-2015-paris-attacks-impact-foreign-fighter-returnees/.
2017. Marcellino, William, Kim Cragin and Joshua Mendelsohn et al, “Measuring the Popular Resonance of Daesh’s Propaganda,” Journal of Strategic Security, Vol 10, No. 1. March. [Popular Resonance of Daesh] or http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol10/iss1/4.
2016. Cragin, R. Kim and Phillip Padilla, “Old Becomes New Again: Kidnappings by Daesh and other Salafi Jihadists in the 21st Century,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, [old-becomes-new] or http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/1057610X.2016.1237217
2015. Cragin, Kim, “Semi-Proxy Wars and U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 38:5, pp. 311-327. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2015.1018024
2014. Cragin, Kim, “A Recent History of al-Qa’ida,” The Historical Journal, 67:3 (September 2014), pp. 803-824. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/a-recent-history-of-al-qaida/0A94DC7027C4811304625D2CE9E8617D
2013. Cragin, Kim, “Resisting Violent Extremism: A Conceptual Model for Non-Radicalization,” Terrorism and Political Violence, (December 2013), pp. 337-353. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09546553.2012.714820
2009. Cragin, Kim and Drew Curiel, “Prime Numbers: 9/11 + 5”, Foreign Policy, October 2009, http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/15/911-5/.
2009. Cragin, Kim, “Al-Qa’ida Confronts Hamas: Divisions in the Sunni-Jihadist Movement and its Implications for US Policy,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 32:7, July 2009, pp. 576-509. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10576100902961748.
2008. Cragin, Kim, “The Early History of al-Qa’ida,” The Historical Journal, 51:4, November 2008, pp. 1047-1067. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/early-history-of-al-qaida/712B4E593C762040899BB4A78E62AEA1.
Books and Monographs by Date
2017. Robinson, Eric, P. Kathleen Frier, Kim Cragin et al, “What Causes Individuals to Reject Violent Extremism in Yemen?” Santa Monica, RAND Corporation [RAND_RR1727_Yemen] or http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1727.html.
2016. Cragin, R. Kim, “Countering Terrorism,” in R.D. Hooker Jr (ed) Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration, Washington DC, NDU Press. [ch7_countering-terrorism] or access the full report at http://ndupress.ndu.edu/Publications/Books/charting-a-course/.
2016. Cragin, R. Kim et al, What Factors Cause Individuals to Reject Violent Extremism? Results of an Exploratory Analysis in the West Bank, Santa Monica, RAND Corporation. [rand_rr1118]
2015. The FBI: Protecting the Homeland in the 21st Century, Congressionally-Mandated Report by the 9/11 Review Commission to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, March. FINAL 9-11 Review Commission Report (Unclassified).
2011. Cragin, Kim “The Strategic Dilemma of Terrorist Havens,” in Brian M. Jenkins and John Gordon (eds) The Long Shadow of 9/11: America’s Response to Terrorism (Santa Monica: RAND). [rand_mg1107]
2009. Cragin, R. Kim and Sara Daly, Women as Terrorists: Mothers, Recruiters and Martyrs, (New York: Praeger). http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=E2555C.
2009. Davis, Paul K. and Kim Cragin (eds), Social Science for Counterterrorism: Putting the Pieces Together (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation). [rand_mg849]
2009. Wehrey, Frederic, David E. Thaler, Nora Bensahel, Kim Cragin, Jerrold D. Green, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Nadia Oweidat, Jennifer Li, Dangerous but not Omnipotent: Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation). [rand_mg781]
2007. Cragin, Kim et al, Sharing the Dragon’s Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation). [rand_mg485]
2007. Jackson, Brian A., Peter Chalk, Kim Cragin, Bruce Newsome, John Parachini, William Rosenau, Erin M. Simpson, Melanie W. Sisson, Donald Temple, Breaching the Fortress Wall: Understanding Terrorist Efforts to Overcome Defensive Technologies (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation).[rand_mg481]
2006. Cragin, Kim “Learning to Survive: The Case of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas),” in James Forrest, ed., Teaching Terror: Strategic and Tactical Learning in the Terrorist World (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield). [https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Terror-Strategic-Tactical-Terrorist/dp/0742540782]
2005. Cragin, Kim and Scott Gerwehr, Dissuading Terror: Strategic Influence and the Struggle Against Terrorism (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation). [rand_mg184]
2004. Cragin, Kim and Sara Daly, The Dynamic Terrorist Threat: An Assessment of Group Motivations and Capabilities in a Changing World, (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation). [mr1782]
2003. Cragin, Kim and Peter Chalk, Terrorism and Development: Using Social and Economic Development to Inhibit a Resurgence of Terrorism (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation). [mr1630]
2002. Cragin, Kim and Bruce Hoffman, Arms Trafficking and Colombia (Santa Monica: RAND). [mr1468]
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