Jihadist Extremism

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS:  

• J.M. Berger is author of the groundbreaking history Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam. 

• With Jessica Stern, J.M. Berger is co-author of the authoritative ISIS: The State of Terror. 

• With the destruction of the caliphate, the Islamic State has lost far more than territory (with Amarnath Amarasingam)

• Deconstruction of Identity Concepts in ISIS Propaganda

• Countering IS Messaging Through “Linkage-Based” Analysis

• What does "defeat the ideology" mean?

• ISIS and the Dystopian Spectacle

• The ISIS Twitter Census (2015) with Jonathon Morgan

• The Islamic State's Irregulars (2014) 

• War on Error: The New Shape of Al Qaeda (2014)

• The Metronome of Apocalyptic Time: Social Media as Carrier Wave for Millenarian Contagion

• Omar and Me: My Relationship with an American Terrorist

• The Enduring Appeal of Awlaqi's "Constants of Jihad"

• Misunderestimating ISIS 

• J.M. Berger, Senate testimony on ISIS recruitment 

• ISIS vs. al Qaeda: The next jihadi superpower 

• How ISIS Games Twitter