Critical junctures in terrorism studies: the Arab Spring and the new twenty-first century security environment

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Michael J. Schumacher

Michael J. Schumacher, Ph.D., is an instructor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. His current research examines the foreign fighter phenomenon from a comparative, historical perspective by looking at the specific cases of the foreign fighters who fought for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the foreign fighters who fought for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Syrian Civil War (2011-Present). He is broadly interested in the causes and consequences of terrorism, the links between democratisation, authoritarianism, and political violence, and the impact of violent non-state actors on foreign policy making. His published work has appeared in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Democracy and Security, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, and The Journal of North African Studies.