Hi and welcome to Curiously! In this podcast I will be asking whether the suicide bombings we have and continue to witness in the twenty first century are the result of religious fanaticism, or something more complex. 

Research included in this episode:

Arnett, G., 2014. Religious extremism main cause of terrorism, according to report. The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/nov/18/religious-extremism-main-cause-of-terrorism-according-to-report.

Dearden, L., 2017. ISIS carrying out more suicide bombings than ever before as it fights to defend strongholds in Iraq and Syria. The Independent.

Ebraheem, M., 2018. Six Iraqi soldiers injured as suicide bomber blows himself up in Anbar. Iraqi News. Available at: https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/six-iraqi-soldiers-injured-as-suicide-bomber-blows-himself-up-in-anbar/ [Accessed April 8, 2018].

Harries, M. & Harries, S., 1991. Soldiers of the sun: the rise and fall of the Imperial Japanese Army, Random House Inc.

Hoffman, B., 2003. The Logic of Suicide Terrorism. The Atlantic. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/06/the-logic-of-suicide-terrorism/302739/ [Accessed April 7, 2018].

Horowitz, M.C., 2015. The Rise and Spread of Suicide Bombing. Annual Review of Political Science, 18(1), pp.69–84.

Hutchinson, W., 2007. The systemic roots of suicide bombing. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 24(2), pp.191–200.

James, D.C. & Clayton James, D., 1987. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War John W. Dower. Pacific historical review, 56(3), pp.469–470.

Kramer, M., 2003. Coming to Terms: Fundamentalists or Islamists? Middle East Quarterly.

Lewis, J.W., 2013. The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing. Origins. Available at: http://origins.osu.edu/article/human-use-human-beings-brief-history-suicide-bombing [Accessed April 7, 2018].

Silke, A., 2015. Understanding suicide terrorism: Insights from psychology, lessons from history. In Investigating Terrorism. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 169–179.

Winter, C., 2017. War by Suicide: A Statistical Analysis of the Islamic State’s Martyrdom Industry. In ICCT International Centre for Counter Terrorism - The Hague .

Zaloga, S.J., 2011. Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944Â?45, Bloomsbury Publishing.

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