Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare
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
2023. Cragin, R. Kim, “Counterterrorism Jenga,” Lawfareblog, 25 June 2023. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/counterterrorism-jenga
2021. Cragin, R. Kim, Michael Bartlett, Will Crass, “Recalibrating U.S. Counterterrorism: Lessons Learned from Spain,” Lawfareblog, 10 October 2021, https://www.lawfareblog.com/recalibrating-us-counterterrorism-lessons-learned-spain
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.
2017. Cragin, R. Kim, “Foreign Fighter Hot Potato,” Lawfareblog, 26 November 2017, available online at https://lawfareblog.com/foreign-fighter-hot-potato.
2016. Cragin, R. Kim, “Can Silicon Valley Help in the Social Media War with ISIS?” Middle East Institute blog post, 10 February, http://www.mei.edu/content/article/can-silicon-valley-help-social-media-war-isis.
2015. Cragin, Kim, “Countering the Lure of ISIS,” presentation made at the Middle East Institute, August, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIO_g5X_XoY.
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
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
Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs)
2019. Noonan, Michael, Colin Clarke, Kim Cragin, David Malet and Barak Mendelsohn, “Roundtable: The Future of the Foreign Fighters Problem,” FPRI, November 2019. https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/11/roundtable-the-future-of-the-foreign-fighters-problem/
2018. Cragin, R. Kim, “The Riptide: How Foreign Fighter Returnees Could Shape the Jihadist Movement,” 20 March 2018, available online at https://tnsr.org/roundtable/policy-roundtable-future-jihadist-movement/.
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. Cragin, Kim, “Foreign Fighters” episode of the Defense Matters podcast, available online at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/defense-matters/id1253593329?mt=2; June 28.
Terrorist Ideology, Messaging, Radicalization and Recruitment
2024. Cragin, R. Kim, “Hamas Cannot Be Fought Like Al-Qaeda,” Lawfareblog, 12 May 2024. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/hamas-cannot-be-fought-like-al-qaeda
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
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.
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 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. Cragin, Kim, “Tackling Radicalization Before it Begins,” US News and World Report, February 2015, http://rand.org/blog/2015/02/tackling-radicalization-before-it-begins.html.
2009. “Understanding Terrorist Motivations,” testimony presented to the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Risk Assessment, Winter 2009.[rand_ct338]
2007. “Understanding Terrorist Ideology,” testimony presented to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Summer 2007. [rand_ct283]
Terrorist Groups’ Use of New Technologies and Tactics
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]
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
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]
Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Affiliates, and Sympathizers
2024. “The Evolution of ISIS and its Challenge for U.S. Foreign Policy,” Network 20/20 Commentary. YouTube, June 2024. https://youtu.be/4RD2XMqY0hM?si=pN15Awjbv6-Am4PT
2019. Cragin, Kim, “Assessing the Threat from Homegrown Extremists Sympathetic to the Islamic State,” Lawfareblog, 7 July 2019. https://www.lawfareblog.com/addressing-threat-homegrown-violent-extremists-sympathetic-islamic-state.
2018. Cragin, Kim, “The Enemy Gets a Vote,” Lawfareblog, 16 September 2018, available online at https://www.lawfareblog.com/enemy-gets-vote.
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]
2018. Cragin, Kim, “Arc of Crisis in the MENA Region,” panel at the Atlantic Council, October, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6r7BJZiAlg
2017. Cragin, R. Kim, “Europe’s Terrorist Threat,” Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation and Trade, House of Representatives, 27 June 2017. [Cragin Written Testimony (June 2017)] or https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4675157/terrorist-threat-europe-house-subcommittes-hearing-6-27-2017.
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.
2017. Cragin, Kim, “Security in the Maghreb Region,” presentation made at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,” December, https://www.c-span.org/video/?438027-3/security-threats-north-africa-panel-2.
2015. Cragin, Kim, “The Growing Role of Women in ISIS,” FOX News Commentary, November, https://video.foxnews.com/v/4628412806001/?#sp=show-clips.
2015. Cragin, Kim, “Countering the Lure of ISIS,” presentation made at the Middle East Institute, August, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIO_g5X_XoY.
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
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.
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