Critical Studies on Terrorism is a new international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. The journal seeks to publish quality research on all aspects of terrorism, counter-terrorism and state terror.

Forthcoming Contents

A key aim of the journal is to both create space for robust, innovative research on terrorism, and to encourage fruitful intellectual engagement between critical and orthodox accounts of terrorism.  In particular, the editors are looking for empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented articles that recognise the inherently problematic nature of the terrorism label, employ a critical-normative perspective broadly defined, and challenge accepted orthodoxies. Research on terrorism employing methodological and disciplinary perspectives from outside the poltical science and international relations paradigms is especially encouraged.

Within this broad framework, the journal seeks submissions in some of the following areas:

• The achievements and limitations of terrorism studies as a discipline
• Preconditions and facilitating factors of terrorism
• Sociological, anthropological, psychological analyses of political terror
• Comparative history of (counter) - terrorism
• State terror and political repression
• The institutionalisation of counter-terrorism
• Torture, human rights/civil liberties and coercive counter-terrorism
• Ethical-normative analyses of (counter) - terrorism
• Gender dimensions of political terror
• The politics of naming/power-knowledge dimensions of 'terrorism'
• Identity, culture and representation of 'terrorism'
• The political communication of (counter) - terrorism
• Media studies of (counter) - terrorism
• Pathways out of political terror (non-state or state)
• Conflict resolution and counter-terrorism
• Perspectives from the Global South on (counter) - terrorism

Critical Studies on Terrorism will provide a forum for the publication of original theoretical and empirical research articles, disciplinary debates and assessments, editorial commentary, special issues, research notes, announcements and book reviews.

Critical Studies on Terrorism will be of interest to practitioners and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including: political science, security studies, international relations, sociology, psychology, history, applied philosophy, religious studies, law, criminology, anthropology, communication, media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, conflict resolution, development studies and area studies, among others.