As co-organizer (together with Hedayah Abu Dhabi, a leading global research institution in the field of P/CVE), EICTPs President Herbert Scheibner held the opening speech at the International CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) Research Conference in Granada and EICTP Senior Reseacher Dr. Nicolas Stockhammer delivered a key note presentation on “Counter-Narratives and Alternative Narratives as Effective…
EICTP was accepted as a member in the EU–HYBNET (Empowering a Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats). EU-HYBNET Network is a EU-funded project that brings together security practitioners, academia, industry players and SME actors across the EU collaborating with each other in ever increasing numbers to counter hybrid threats. The project aims at enriching the existing European networks…
On January 12, 2022, the third volume of the EICTP Vienna Research Papers on Transnational Terrorism and Counter Terrorism, entitled “Trends and Scenarios of Transnational Terrorism,” was presented to the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and the United Nations (ÖGAVN) by the EICTPs President Herbert Scheibner and editor Dr. Nicolas Stockhammer. Based on a key…
Our European democracy(s) is/are under threat, at a post-World War II historical level. This paper examines the current threats facing our European democracies, primarily at the level of analysis of homeland security. These threats and their actors are analyzed here in the thematic areas of democratic resilience, narratives and conspiracy narratives of radicals and extremists,…
Towards a New Iron Curtain By Prof. Dr. Rob de Wijk / The Hague Center for strategic Studies and Leiden University The Russian war against Ukraine will have important implications for the future European security order. Many analysts, including myself, did not believe that Putin would attack: 150.000 troops are simply too few to…
In 2022 the Media Mujahidin – the media operatives who work on and offline in support of Salafi-Jihadi groups – have continued to maintain a persistent presence online and conduct influence operations amongst their primary, Arabic speaking, target audience. This contrasts significantly with the dominant narrative which has been presented by both the transatlantic orthodoxy…
Whereas records of acts of piracy reach as far back as the fourteenth-century BC, this study confines itself to the present century. Maritime terrorism, like all forms of terrorism, stems primarily from political, ideological or religious sources. Terrorists thus seek to identify and target industrial infrastructures. They may focus attention on so-called choke points and…
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted life all over the planet and impacted nearly every aspect of human life. With national governments thrown into confusion as how to best react to the spread of the virus while keeping up its most central functions, Islamist terrorist militias have taken advantage of the situation. Terrorist…
At present, Turkey is trying to adopt a position of “active neutrality” in the war between Russia and Ukraine. A foreign policy position that Ankara has been pursuing since 2014. In concrete terms, this means that Ankara supports both states to the best of their ability. Turkey’s alliance with Ukraine is important for Ankara to…
Terrorist groups like Al Qaeda (AQ) or the Islamic State (IS) have been pro-active in using the internet as well as traditional media formats to maintain a persistent media presence with the intention to influence their target audiences. For that purpose, they project influence based on a coherent – and thus for its target audience…
Prof. Herfried Münkler analyzes in this expert paper the reasons for Europe’s incapability to position itself as a global player. The complexity of the political order in Europe and the interplay of growing Euroscepticism, Brexit and the role of nuclear weapons in Europe’s security policy indicate the numerous gaps and vulnerabilities. By examining the fault…
This major research study, a collection of state of the art contributions by world-leading experts in the field on the subject of transnational terrorism and its multifaceted implications, EICTP intends to provide a first-hand account dealing with the imminent sub-conventional threats to current international security environments. Reflections introduced and elaborated cover a wide range of…