Colin R. G. Murray (Newcastle): The Problems with Proscription: Tackling Terrorist Organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Ashlie Perry and Binneh Minteh (Rutgers): Home Grown Terrorism in the United States: Causes, Affiliations and Policy Implications. Christopher A. D. Charles (West Indies) and Marie-Helen Maras (John Jay): Strengthening Counterterrorism from the Information of a Successful Terrorist Attack and Failed Missions in the United States. Leti Volpp (UC-Berkeley): The Boston Bombers. Peter J. Spiro (Temple): Expatriating Terrorists. From New America, here is a database to provide as much information as possible about American citizens and permanent residents engaged in violent extremist activity as well as individuals, regardless of their citizenship status, living within the United States who have engaged in violent extremist activity. From The Intercept, Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux on the secret government rulebook for labeling you a terrorist. Can an American be investigated for terrorism merely for expressing support for it? The government isn’t saying. Is Vice's documentary on ISIS illegal? Andrew F. March on how the courts have broadly defined what it means to support terrorists. The Joseph T. Simpson Public Library in Mechanicsburg, a small town eight miles southwest of Harrisburg, is not being considered a breeding ground for jihadists, but it has been implicated as a sleeper threat to our nation’s food supply. Move over, jihadists: Sovereign citizens seen as America’s top terrorist threat. Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler (IDC) and Cas Mudde (Georgia): “Ecoterrorism”: Terrorist Threat or Political Ploy? Michael Loadenthal (George Mason): Eco-Terrorism? Countering Dominant Narratives of Securitisation: a Critical, Quantitative History of the Earth Liberation Front (1996-2009). Just what is it that makes today’s eco-terrorists so different, so appealing?
