This month, the RESOLVE Network team’s “What We’re Reading” post highlights findings from our recently published 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 works cited by articles related to violent extremism, as revealed by the study.

Fearon, J., and D. D. Laitin. “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War.” The American Political Science Review 97 (1): (2016) 75–90. https://web.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/workingpapers/apsa011.pdf  

Collier, Paul, Anke Hoeffler, and Dominic Rohner. “Beyond Greed and Grievance: Feasibility and Civil War.” Oxford Economic Papers (2009) 61 (1): 1–27. https://academic.oup.com/oep/article/61/1/1/2362160/Beyond-greed-and-grievance-feasibility-and-civil  

Kalyvas, Stathis. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2006) http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/logic-violence-civil-war?format=HB&isbn=9780521854092  

Hoffman, B. Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press. (1998) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/inside-terrorism/9780231126991  

Pape, Robert. “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.” American Political Science Review (2003) 97 (3): 343–361. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/stille/Politics%20Fall%202007/readings%20weeks%206-7/Strategic%20Logic%20of%20Suicide%20Missions.pdf  

Tilly, Charles. Why Men Rebel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (1970) https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article/4/4/416/976931/Why-Men-Rebel-By-Ted-Robert-Gurr-Princeton  

Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (1985). http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520227064  

Crenshaw, Martha. “The Causes of Terrorism.” Comparative Politics 13 (4): (1981) 379–99. https://www.jstor.org/stable/421717?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents  

Sageman, Marc. Understanding Terror Networks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (2004) http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14036.html   

Pape, Robert. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House. (2006) https://books.google.com/books/about/Dying_to_Win.html?id=SOlnH3f_dXwC