Global Security and Intelligence Studies • Volume 6 , Number 1 • Spring / Summer 2021
Editorial Welcome
Welcome to the first issue of our Sixth edition ! Global Security and Intelligence Studies is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal that aims to bridge the two-way gap between academia and practitioners . We serve as common ground to a diverse and growing audience ranging from policymakers to academics to operators on the front lines . GSIS strives to provide work pertaining to the most current and relevant topics in an ever-evolving and rapidly expanding threat-scape . In order to keep up with the evolving field , we are excited to introduce a new peer-reviewed section to GSIS . The Critical Analysis section will feature research subject to the same high academic standards as your other Research Articles but without the empirical requirement . This area of research is intended to showcase argumentative and explanatory research that stands on its own merits outside of a rigid experimental model . This edition sees the field further expand into epidemiology and the COVID-19 pandemic , the rise of political extremism in the US , corporate espionage , and how words have become weaponry . This issue covers a lot of ground in the security and intelligence industry !
We open this issue with an extremely timely discourse on extremism within the US . J . J . Brookhouser presents a quantitative analysis on domestic right-wing extremism and violence within the US from 2000 to 2020 . Despite an increasing number of extremist groups with right-wing ideology , increases in violence associated with such groups have failed to be recognized as terrorism . Using the Global Terrorism Database Brookhouser correlated ideological motivators to attack lethality .
Our second research article in the issue Joshua Pease and James Hess depart of the research-rich field of extremist Islamism and look at their more moderate counterparts . The pair take an in-depth look at the philosophical underpinnings and limitations of Deobandi and Salafi doctrines . The research is founded on a very insightful qualitative meta-ethnography of past research and ethnographic accounts of the moderate ( Deobandi and Salafi ) and extremist ( Taliban and Salafi Jihadi ) doctrines . Applicable to researchers of Islamic-based terrorism the conclusions and methods of the authors also offer insight into the developmental evolution of budding extremist organizations in the US .
In our third article , Melissa Schnyder digs deeper into Europe ’ s refugee crises by investigating how refugee protection and public support can be shaped . Her research articulates how participants from France and Germany perceive legislative protection measures when they are presented as aspects of national security . The results noted no significant differences for those presented with arguments centered on national security versus the control group who were not . The results
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