The Darkest Shade of Green: Climate Change, Terrorist Organizations, and the Battle for Environmental Legitimacy Climate change is fundamentally reshaping modern terrorism through “environmental governance competition”—strategic contests where terrorist organizations exploit climate vulnerabilities to outperf...

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Thrilled My Latest Article - The Darkest Shade of Green - Is Out In Studies In Conflict & Terrorism 🎉🍾🥳I Examine the Links Between #ClimateChange and #RebelGovernance among #IslamicState #AlQaeda #Hamas & #Hezbollah 👇👇👇
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Al-Shabab’s shadow state: Why Somalia’s militants are winning legitimacy The jihadist group's administrative successes pose uncomfortable questions for the international community.

Honored for our #Somalia control #map to have been featured in the second installment of @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's "rebel rule" series on #rebelgovernance in areas outside control of official govts. #geography #defactostates #AlShabaab #HornOfAfrica

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Now available. It features the cover of Inside Salafi-Jihadist Governance: The Strategies and Characteristics of Islamist Insurgent Rule, by Marta Furlan. It includes a blurb by Ayse G. Lokmanghu and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! Offering a window into the inner workings of government and civilian life under Islamist power, INSIDE SALAFI-JIHADIST GOVERNANCE sheds new light on rule by nonstate groups more broadly. buff.ly/tIHtQSF #RebelGovernance #CivilWar #ArmedGroups #Jihadism #ISIS #HTS #AQAP #Syria #Iraq

🔥 New from Kai M. Thaler: From Insurgent to Incumbent (Comparative Politics)
How does ideology shape rebel governance & statebuilding after victory in civil wars?

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#CRSmembers #RebelGovernance #Statebuilding #CivilWars

4/ To explain this, I introduce the concept of more-than-rebel territory, i.e. spaces where armed groups capture—but then enable civilian-led, relational processes of territory-making.

This contributes to literature on post/decolonial approaches to #territory & #rebelgovernance.

Join us bright and early on Tuesday for the really exciting panel I organised on #rebelgovernance where I’m also presenting a piece that (finally) builds on my 2017 article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rebel rule in Idlib hints at what the rest of Syria can expect The Islamist group that now runs Syria has led everyday life for people in Idlib for seven years.

The Idlib Model of Ahmad Al-Sharra for whole Syria. Inclusive and moderate.
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#Idlib #Syria
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Greetings, new followers! These panels on #RebelGovernance are going to be terrific & hella fun. I'll be presenting on #Zapatista & rebel interactions in #Mexico. And, w/ co-authors Rumela Sen & Keshab Giri, on Rebel #IntimateGovernance in #SouthAsia. Hope to see you @ #ISA2025 @isanet.bsky.social

Revisiting Charles Townshend’s history of the Irish Revolution. This book & Arthur Mitchell’s (somewhat harder to find) Revolutionary Government in Ireland are masterful histories of Republican counterstate building. Absolute goldmines for any #polisky folks interested in #rebelgovernance