At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Belgians left their native country and crossed the Atlantic. The American Dream was their beacon.
Rik CoolsaetVoyage to America
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‘Radicalisation’ and ‘countering radicalisation’
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The emergence and expansion of a contentious concept
Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering RadicalisationTheorizing Radicalization and Violent Extremism
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An interview on the ‘old’ terrorism studies and the ‘new’ radicalisation research
Making Sense of Radicalization and Violent ExtremismWhat the Zeitgeist can Tell us About the Future of Terrorism
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Right-wing extremism is on the rise in most Western countries. Jihadi terrorism in contrast is in relative decline. What does that tell us about the future of terrorism?
icct.nlWhen do individuals radicalize?
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For more than a century now, observers have been trying to understand why and how individuals become terrorists. What do we now know – and what don’t we known (yet)?
Contemporary Terrorism StudiesFrom bad to worse
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The fate of European foreign fighters and families detained in Syria, one year after the Turkish offensive
Thomas Renard & Rik Coolsaet (Egmont Institute)Foreign Fighters and the Terrorist Threat in Belgium
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Returnees are no longer the sole – or even main – concern of security services.
Rik Coolsaet, Thomas Renard (ISPI)Terrorism and Counter Terrorism: European and American experiences
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Two classes on terrorism & counterterrorism at CERIS (Brussels), 10-11 January 2020
(CERIS, Brussels)New figures on European nationals detained in Syria and Iraq
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New estimates compiled by the Egmont Institute contradict some of the figures circulating previously on the number of European adults and children detained in Syria and Iraq.
Thomas Renard, Rik Coolsaet (Egmont Institute)Losing Control Over Returnees?
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Europe is not yet done with the challenge of returning foreign fighters, and time is not on its side.
Thomas Renard, Rik Coolsaet (Lawfare)Radicalization: The origins and limits of a contested concept
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The concept of radicalization has been less helpful or adequate at explaining and countering terrorism than its early advocates envisaged fifteen years ago.
Rik Coolsaet (Radicalisation in Belgium and the Netherlands: Critical Perspectives on Violence and Security)Radicalisation. A marginal phenomenon or a mirror to society ?
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Radicalisation remains as fraught with conceptual confusion and divergent policy prescripts as at the beginning, a decade and a half ago.
Rik Coolsaet (Radicalisation. A marginal phenomenon or a mirror to society ?)