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Shootings In Iraq: A South Korean Response, Ibpp Editor
Shootings In Iraq: A South Korean Response, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This author examines statements of South Korean president, Roh Moo Hyun, in the wake of the news of the November 30, 2003 killings of two South Korean civilian electrical workers in Iraq. The nature of terrorism as well as potential interpretations of the president’s statements are stressed.
Saudi Arabia’S Counterterrorist Rationale, Ibpp Editor
Saudi Arabia’S Counterterrorist Rationale, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article analyzes United States public discourse on the authenticity of the Saudi Arabian government’s counterterrorism efforts.
Trends. The United States, Israel, And Parallelism In Counterterrorist Response, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The United States, Israel, And Parallelism In Counterterrorist Response, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses and evaluates United States reactions to terrorist attacks, and US support for Israel in a political psychological context.
Trends. Commentary On “The Influence Component Of Counterterrorism: A Systems Approach, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Commentary On “The Influence Component Of Counterterrorism: A Systems Approach, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses the guiding principles for and challenges to a conceptual framework for deterring terrorism against the United States and its interests as presented by Paul Davis and Brian Jenkins in the Spring 2003 issue of Rand Review.
Trends. Car Bomb Explosion And An Explosion Of Truths, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Car Bomb Explosion And An Explosion Of Truths, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses multiple political psychological aspects of the August 29, 2003 car bomb explosion adjacent to the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq
Trends. Why Humanitarian Workers Should Be Killed: A Perspective From Nietzschean Slave Morality, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Why Humanitarian Workers Should Be Killed: A Perspective From Nietzschean Slave Morality, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses different views of the murders of United Nations humanitarian workers in Iraq – first, from a modern Western perspective, and, second, from the perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche as he considered the transvaluation of what is Good on the part of the powerless.
“Bin Laden’S Brain”: The Abrasively Negativistic Personality Of Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Aubrey Immelman, Kathryn Kuhlmann
“Bin Laden’S Brain”: The Abrasively Negativistic Personality Of Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Aubrey Immelman, Kathryn Kuhlmann
Psychology Faculty Publications
This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network at the time of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States and allegedly chief strategist for al-Qaida operations and personal physician to Osama bin Laden.
Al-Zawahiri’s primary personality patterns were found to be Contentious/oppositional and Dominant/controlling, with secondary features of the Dauntless/dissenting and Ambitious/self-serving patterns.
The amalgam of Contentious (negativistic, or passive-aggressive) and Dominant (aggressive, or sadistic) patterns in al-Zawahiri’s profile suggests the presence of the “abrasive negativist” syndrome. For these personalities, minor frictions easily …
A Grenade Attack And The Fog Of War, Ibpp Editor
A Grenade Attack And The Fog Of War, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes the social psychological and political psychological contexts within which attributions of causality may have been constructed concerning a grenade attack within Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, on the very early Sunday morning of March 23, 2003.
Trends. Iraq And The Implosion Of The Terrorism Construct, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Iraq And The Implosion Of The Terrorism Construct, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses assorted definitions of terrorism to determine which definitions could practically be applied to military action as a way of reducing violence against United States military personnel in Iraq.
Finding The Feathers In “Birds Of A Feather”: An Antiterrorist And Counterterrorist Dilemma In Profiling, Ibpp Editor
Finding The Feathers In “Birds Of A Feather”: An Antiterrorist And Counterterrorist Dilemma In Profiling, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes a significant challenge for intelligence analysts attempting to identify individuals, groups, and organizations that have joined, are joining, or will join forces in terrorist enterprises.
Psychological Profiling Of Terrorists: Recent Findings From Singapore On Jemaah Islamiyah, Ibpp Editor
Psychological Profiling Of Terrorists: Recent Findings From Singapore On Jemaah Islamiyah, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article reviews the contemporary history of psychological profiling of terrorists and then relates this history to recent psychological profiling data on detainees who are allegedly members of a group that allegedly engages in terrorist behavior.
The “Great Game” For The Twenty-First Century: Islamic Extremism And Central Asia, Ian Sethre
The “Great Game” For The Twenty-First Century: Islamic Extremism And Central Asia, Ian Sethre
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin. London: Pluto Press, 2001. 272pp.
and
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 281pp.
and
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 274pp.