Scott Atran

Scott Atran is a director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and Professor of anthropology and psychology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion and the organizer of a NATO working group on suicide terrorism.

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The Jihadist Mutation

05.25.2005 Scott Atran

The coordinated train bombings in Madrid that killed 200 and injured roughly 1,600 have already had a greater impact on the world than any terrorist...

Publication Terrorism Monitor

The ‘Virtual Hand’ of Jihad

05.23.2005 Scott Atran

The presidential commission on WMDs and the 9/11 commission have condemned the status quo mentality of the intelligence community, which they see as being preoccupied...

Publication Terrorism Monitor

Soft Power and the Psychology of Suicide Bombing

05.19.2005 Scott Atran

The soldiers believed they came that spring to free a part of the Middle East from the tyranny of terrorists and evil men. What amazed...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Middle East

Soft Power And The Psychology Of Suicide Bombing

06.03.2004 Scott Atran

The soldiers believed they came that spring to free a part of the Middle East from the tyranny of terrorists and evil men. What amazed...

Publication Terrorism Monitor