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How much of a risk is it that Afghanistan without the West will once again become a base for terrorists? The killings at Kabul airport have been attributed to ISIS-K, but Al Qaeda is also still active in the country. Dr Tim Wilson, director, the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrew's University, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Yuan Potts and Roger Hearing it's unclear whether the Taliban can control what goes on, but it would not be in their interest to allow terrorists to operate from inside their territory. Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute, joins to discuss the ways in which money reaches the Taliban and the other groups and how it can be blocked. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. During 20111-16 he was Wardlaw Professor of Politics in the School of International Relations, and Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of eight books, including Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003), Terrorism: How to Respond (2009), and Does Terrorism Work? A History (2016). He is a frequent media commentator on terrorism, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, and an Honorary Professor at the university of St. Andrews. Research that has influenced Richard's career Martha Crenshaw (2011), Explaining Terrorism Charles Townshend (1984), Political Violence in Ireland Eric Hobsbawm (1997), On History Some of Richard's key research Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) Terrorism: How to Respond (2009) Does Terrorism Work? A History (2016)

Event recording from 08/03/2018. The European continent was struck by a wave of international terrorism for the first time in the 1970s, and governments had to develop concerted responses and policies to counter the threat. In The Origins of International Counterterrorism, Aviva Guttmann analyses this inter-governmental process from Switzerland’s perspective. Swiss authorities played a surprisingly important role in shaping international counterterrorism cooperation, especially on the secret intelligence level. In this lecture, Aviva Guttmann presents her main research findings and conclusions of the book. Her talk is followed by a comment given by Dr Marco Wyss (Lancaster University). The event will be of interest to anyone interested in issues pertaining to counterterrorism, crisis management, multilateral diplomacy, and intelligence cooperation and to anyone seeking new insight into the Global Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the role of neutrals in this context. Biography: Aviva Guttmann, Ph.D. (2016), is a Research Fellow and Teaching Associate in Intelligence and International Security at King’s College London, Department of War Studies. Her research is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). She has been a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Europe. She was educated at the University of Basel (B.A. Hons philosophy) and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (M.A. international history), Sciences Po in Paris, and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). She was awarded a Ph.D. in contemporary history by the University of Bern (Switzerland). During the last year of her Ph.D., Aviva was a doctoral visiting fellow at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). The event was chaired by Professor Michael S. Goodman (King’s College London).

Dr. Jeffrey Stevenson Murer explores the problems of group violence, inter-communal conflict, and political terrorism through the lens of collective identity formation. Presently he is the Senior Lecturer on Collective Violence in the School of International Relations and a Research Fellow to the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews. In 2006, he edited with Professor Derek Reveron Flashpoints in the War on Terror, and has published in numerous journals including Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal for Terrorism Research, and the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. His forthcoming book, Repeating Hate (Palgrave 2018), explores far-right political extremism and violence in Central Europe, and with Dr. Clare Bielby, he is the co-editor of another forthcoming volume Perpetrating Selves: Performing Identity, Doing Violence (Palgrave 2018). As well as being a Scottish Institute for Policing Research Lecturer, in 2017 Murer became a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Some research that has influenced Jeffrey's career Vamik Volkan (1988) The Need for Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships Julia Kristeva (1991) Strangers to Ourselves Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein (1991) Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities Some of Jeffrey's key research Understanding collective violence: The communicative and performative qualities of violence in acts of belonging (2014) Ethnic Conflict: An Overview of Analyzing and Framing Communal Conflicts from Comparative Perspectives. (2012) The Emergence of a Lumpen-consumerate: The Aesthetics of Consumption and Violence in the English Riots of 2011 (2015) Constructing the Enemy-Other: Anxiety, Trauma and Mourning in the Narratives of Political Conflict. (2009)

In this week's episode John talks to Javier Argomaniz of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of East London. Javier discusses the role of the EU in counter-terrorism, the role of deterrence and backlash in relation to countering ETA, and the role which victims can and do play in the development and dissemination of counter-narratives. As always if you want to read more in depth about any research referred to in today's pod be sure to visit our website uel.ac.uk/TERC/Talking-Terror and to keep in touch follow us on Twitter @TERCUEL and tweet at us using #TalkingTerror

The conference keynote was delivered by Dr Tim Wilson, Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. Dr Wilson is the author of a range of publications on political violence, ethnic violence, and terrorism, including Frontiers of Violence: Conflict and Identity in Ulster and Upper Silesia, 1918-22 (Oxford, 2010) and ‘The Strange Death of Loyalist Monaghan, 1912–1921’ in S. Paseta (ed.), Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster (Oxford, 2016).