Speakers

Sercan Canbolat

University of Connecticut
 

Sercan Canbolat (M.A. Bilkent University) is a Fulbright Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Connecticut. His scholarly works have appeared in International Studies Review, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, and Routledge.
 

Decoding Militant Islamists’ Rhetoric and Strategy in Their Native Language: A Novel Arabic Coding Scheme for Leadership Analysis in the Middle East and North Africa
 

This project introduces an Arabic coding scheme for leadership analysis to profile key terrorist leaders in MENA. I argue that political beliefs of militant leaders can function as causal mechanisms to account for group fragmentation and lethality.

Sessions

Stirring the Pot in North Africa