Principal Investigator of GNET
Dr Meleagrou-Hitchens is Co-Director of the Centre for Statecraft & National Security (CSNS) and lecturer in Terrorism and Radicalisation in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He is the co-convener of the MA in Terrorism, Security and Society and convenor of the Homegrown Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation optional MA module. His research interests focus on the ideology and strategy of extremist social movements in the West, with a particular interest in militant Islamists and the extreme right.
Selected Publications:
- Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad (Harvard University Press, 2020)
- “Salafism in America: History, Evolution, Radicalization,” George Washington University Program on Extremism, 2019
- “The Travelers: American Jihadists in Iraq and Syria,” George Washington University Program on Extremism (with Seamus Hughes and Bennet Clifford).
- “The Impact of Digital Communications Technology on Radicalization and Recruitment,” International Affairs, Vol. 93, No. 5. (with Audrey Alexander and Nick Kaderbhai)
- “The Challenges and Limitations of Online Counter-Narratives in the Fight against ISIS Recruitment in Europe and North America,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 3.
- “The Long 20th Century,” in Erica Chenoweth, Andreas Gofas, Richard English, Stathis Kalyvas (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism (Oxford University Press, 2019) (with Martyn Frampton and John Bew)
- “The English Defence League and Europe’s Counter-Jihad Movement,” in Peter Neumann (ed.), Radicalization, (Routledge, 2015)