Terrorism and the Pandemic - Weaponizing of Covid-19

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? Utilizing the largest COVID-19-related terrorism database, the book presents an analysis built upon a quantitative and qualitative comparison between the nature of both the radical Islamist and the far-right-related threat in 2018 and 2020. It provides, for the first time, a true picture of novel trends since the pandemic outbreak.

About the author

Rohan Gunaratna is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. He is the author of 20 books including The Three Pillars of Radicalization: Needs, Narratives and Networks (2019, Oxford University Press, co-authored with Arie W. Kruglanski and Jocelyn J. Bélanger).

Product details

• Authors: Rohan Gunaratna, Rohan Petho-Kiss Gunaratna, Gunaratna Rohan, Katalin Petho-Kiss
• Assisted by: Katalin Peth¿-Kiss (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781805397472
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-747-2
• No. of pages: 213
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Terrorism, armed struggle, Infectious & contagious diseases, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious & theocratic ideologies, Human coronaviruses, Religious and theocratic ideologies and movements