Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg This article is excerpted in Homeland Security Today. Introduction On May 11, 2021 Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas gave testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee pointing out that…
This is a pre-publication version of this manuscript. Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg Abstract In the midst of global health and economic crises, more immigration than ever before, and continually updating technology, it is critical that security professionals are prepared…
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, Jesse Morton, and Alexander Ash This manuscript has been published in the Journal of Strategic Security. Introduction In recent years, there has been growing concern about the potential threat of violence, including terrorism and mass murder,…
Gabriel Sjöblom-Fodor & Anne Speckhard Introduction During the rise and peak of ISIS, the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark, stood out as major suppliers of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] to ISIS; people who left their homes to…
Jesse Morton; Alexander Ash; Ken Reidy; Naama Kates; Molly Ellenberg and Anne Speckhard ABSTRACT: Research and journalistic accounts of the involuntary celibate (incel) online subculture suggest that incel-related extremism is characterized by a resentment of women and society propelled within…
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19434472.2020.1839118. by Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg Abstract The present study is a targeted analysis of in-depth…
Anne Speckhard and Mona Thakker As published in Homeland Security Today: As the ISIS foreign women languish in the overcrowded Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] administered camps of Al Roj and Al Hol housing without adequate and regular access to health care,…
Anne Speckhard, Mona Thakker and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: In the past weeks, foreign ISIS women held in custody in the northeast Syrian region controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who were for the most part…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: “Coming to ISIS was the best deradicalization I could have.” Bouchra Abouallal, age 26, Belgian ISIS wife The ISIS “Caliphate” at its apex managed to attract approximately 40,000 foreign terrorist…
Anne Speckhard Originally published in Democracy and Security. There has been considerable interest in recent years to study and attempt to understand the motivations, recruitment, psycho-social and cultural patterns of individuals who become terrorists, particularly those among the “militant jihadi”i…