New journal alert: Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

from Zero Intelligence Agents by Drew Conway

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict (DAC) is a pioneering interdisciplinary journal that publishes original papers and reviews that contribute to understanding and ameliorating conflicts between states and non-state challengers. These conflicts too often lead to violence, sometimes to the extremes of terrorism or genocide. Understanding the trajectory to violence requires examination of conflicts that do not escalate to violence as well as those that do. This means studying individuals, groups, and movements who challenge the state without violence, as well as those who turn to radicalism and terrorism. Similarly, it is necessary to study state agents, agencies, and policy makers who respond to challenge without violence, as well as those who turn to torture, ethnic cleansing and genocide. It follows from this multi-level and dynamic perspective that every social science is welcome in the journal.

The inaugural issue covers some very interesting topics related to terrorism, but those that jumped out to me were:

• Jemaah Islamiyah's radical madrassah networks
  Justin Magouirk; Scott Atran


• Terrorism in the year 2020: Examining the ideational, functional and geopolitical trends that will shape terrorism in the twenty-first century
  Paul J. Smith


• Conflict resolution in asymmetric and symmetric situations: Northern Ireland as a case study
  James W. McAuley; Catherine McGlynn; Jon Tonge