Terrorism and the Pandemic: Weaponizing of COVID-19 - Softcover

Gunaratna, Rohan; Petho-Kiss, Katalin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1805397478 ISBN 13: 9781805397472

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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).

Katalin Petho-Kiss is a CBRNE specialist with expertise on counter terrorism. She is a Senior Fellow at the Global Peace Institute and a Senior Analyst at the Counter Terrorism Information and Criminal Analysis Centre in Hungary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805397478
• ISBN 13: 9781805397472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213