This month, the RESOLVE Network team’s “What We’re Reading” post highlights additional findings from our February 2017 working paper “Mining the Gaps: A Text Mining-Based Meta-Analysis of the Current State of Research on Violent Extremism.” Written in collaboration with Stability Analytics Incorporated (SAI), the working paper employed automated machine-learning analytical techniques to review literature at the intersection between conflict, political violence, and anti-pluralist belief systems. Listed below are the top ten authors cited by articles related to violent extremism and their relevant publications, as revealed by the study.

Fearon, J. D. 2005. “Primary Commodity Exports and Civil War.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 49 (4), 483 507. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022002705277544 

Collier, P., and A. Hoeffler. 2005. “Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 49 (4), 625 33. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022002705277551 

Fearon, J. D., D. D. Laitin, and G. W. Bush. 2016. “Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States.” International Security 28 (4): 5–43. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/0162288041588296 

Gurr, T. R. 1970. Why Men Rebel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/894.html 

Hoffman, B. 2009. “Radicalization and Subversion: Al Qaeda and the 7 July 2005 Bombings and the 2006 Airline Bombing Plot.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism32 (12): 1100–16. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10576100903319896 

Azam, J. P., and A. Hoeffler. 2002. “Violence against Civilians in Civil Wars: Looting or Terror?” Journal of Peace Research 39 (4): 461–85. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022343302039004006 

Sandler, T. 2013. “The Analytical Study of Terrorism: Taking Stock.” Journal of Peace Research 51 (2): 257–71. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022343313491277 

Sambanis, N. 2013. “Using Case Studies to Expand Economic Models of Civil War.” Perspectives on Politics 2 (2): 259–79. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/using-case-studies-to-expand-economic-models-of-civil-war/D06130066DDF1FEA37F8C022CFF7E0B8 

Crenshaw, M. 2001. “Counterterrorism Policy and the Political Process.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 24 (January): 329–37. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/105761001750434204 

Tilly, C. 2005. “Terror as Strategy and Relational Process.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 46 (1–2): 11–32. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0020715205054468