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Linda Schlegel

Linda Schlegel is a PhD student at Goethe University Frankfurt and an Associate Fellow at both the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and modus I Center for Applied Research on Deradicalization. Her research focuses on storytelling in P/CVE narrative campaigns, gaming and extremism, and digital radicalization processes.
Terrorism

Mind the Gap: What We Do and Don’t Know About Gaming and Radicalization

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Gaming and its potential (mis-)use by extremist actors is the new hot topic in radicalization and extremism studies. After the 2019 right-wing extremist attack...
Security

Who Doesn’t Like a Good Story? Why Narratives Are Essential in Counter-extremism Efforts

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“The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. Everyone loves a good story; every culture bathes its children in stories.”, writes...
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Designing Jihad: How Ideological Concepts Influence the Strategy of Salafi-jihadist Groups

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Terrorism in its many shapes and forms is a strategy which has been employed by a variety of different groups throughout history. From the...
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Who, Why, What, When, Against Whom? The Problem With Researching the Effectiveness of Terrorism

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Recent years have seen an increase in academic and policy interests regarding how individuals and groups come to choose terrorism as a tactic. Many...
Politics

Cosmopolitan Jihadists and a Global Insurgency?

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In an interview with Frontline, David Petraeus, a retired US army general and former commander of ISAF in Afghanistan, claimed that “the word insurgency...
Politics

‘Lone Wolf’ or Part of a Pack? How Lonely and How Successful are Attacks by Lone Actor Terrorists?

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The list of so-called lone wolf terrorist attacks in both the West is long and has always been long. However, recent years have seen...

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Defense

The Map Isn’t the War: The Slow Arithmetic Deciding Ukraine

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The map isn’t the war. Ukraine is fighting systems—power grids, drones, attrition. Russia leads this phase by compounding pressure, not breakthroughs. Outcome still contested, but arithmetic, not headlines, is deciding January 2026.
Opinion

Is Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s ‘Policy Summit 2026’ the Blueprint Bangladesh Has Been Waiting For?

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Bangladesh may be seeing a rare shift: from who rules to how to govern. Jamaat-e-Islami’s Policy Summit 2026 outlines a knowledge economy, digital anti-corruption tools, and welfare reforms—but can vision survive execution?
Arctic

In Icy Greenland, the Jungle Grows Back

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In icy Greenland, great-power politics thaw old colonial instincts. As Washington talks force, Nuuk answers identity: not American, not Danish—Greenlandic. The Arctic’s “trillion-dollar ocean” risks reviving the law of the jungle.
Americas

Maduro’s Capture: The Rise of Might-Makes-Right International Order?

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Maduro’s capture signals a grim shift: power over law. From Venezuela to Gaza and Ukraine, force is normalised, sovereignty erodes, and multilateral institutions hollow out—ushering a dangerous might-makes-right world order.
Commentary

The Russian Far East and China: Turning a Resource Periphery into a Gateway for Growth

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Sanctions revived Russia’s Far East as a pivot to Asia, but China ties remain extractive. Without diversification—energy, digital, tourism—the region risks staying a resource periphery, not a Northeast Asian gateway.

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