Graig R. Klein
  • Bio
  • Research
  • Publications & Media Appearances
  • Teaching
  • C.V.

Peer Reviewed Publications
  • Alparone, Dilette, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, & Graig R. Klein. forthcoming. Comparative Public Attitudes About Drone Strikes: Survey Experiments in Italy, Germany, and Poland. ​Foreign Policy Analysis.
  • Klein, Graig R. 2025. Comparative Counterterrorism: All for One, but NOT One for All.” Global Counter-Terrorism: A Decolonial Approach, edited by Sagnik Dutta, Tahir Abbas, and Sylvia I. Bergh, Manchester University Press.
  • Klein, Graig R. 2024. Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 47(6): 668-99.
    • International Centre for Counter-Terrorism perspective applying the research to the Belarus-EU migrant crisis here
  • Fisher, Scott, Graig R. Klein, Juste Codjo, & Juris Pupcenoks. 2024. Answering Authoritarian State Asymmetric State Challenges: Tools for Deterring Hybrid Threats and Non-Military Coercion from China and Russia. Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, 53-77.
  • Pupcenoks, Juris, Scott Fisher, & Graig R. Klein. 2024. Sentiment Shifts and a New Approach to Strategic Narratives Analysis: Russian Rhetoric on Ukraine. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 32(1): 85-112.
  • Fisher, Scott, Graig R. Klein & Juste Codjo. 2022. Foreign Policy Through Language & Sentiment. Foreign Policy Analysis​. 18(2).
  • Klein, Graig R., José Cuesta, & Cristian Chagalj. 2022. The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018-2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests. Journal of Politics in Latin America 14(1): 55-83.
  • Tokdemir, Efe & Graig R. Klein. 2021. Strategic Interaction of Governments and Terrorist Groups in Times of Economic Hardship. Defence & Peace Economics. Online First: June 14.
  • Boddery, Scott S. & Graig R. Klein. 2021. Presidential Use of Diversionary Drone Force and Public Support.  Research & Politics. Online First: May 26.
  • Farrer, Benjamin & Graig R. Klein. 2019. How Radical Environmental Violence Impacts US Elections. Terrorism and Political Violence​. Online First: November 4.
  • Klein, Graig R. & Efe Tokdemir. 2019. Domestic Diversion: Selective Targeting of Minority Out-Groups. Conflict Management and Peace Science 36(1): 20-41. 
    • Political Violence @ a Glance post applying the research to 2020 racial tensions & campaign politics in the U.S. here
    • Political Violence @ a Glance post discussing our research here
  • Klein, Graig R. & Patrick M. Regan. 2018. Dynamics of Political Protests.  ​International Organization. 72(2): 485-521.
    • Political Violence @ a Glance post applying the research to 2019 Hong Kong protests here
    • Political Violence @ a Glance ​post applying the research to 2018 Iran protests here
  • Farrer, Benjamin & Graig R. Klein. 2017. The Political Roots of Domestic Environmental Terrorism. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties. 27(2): 133-155.
    • Monkey Cage post discussing our research here​​
  • Klein, Graig R. 2016.  Ideology Isn't Everything: Transnational Terrorism, Recruitment Incentives & Attack Casualties. Terrorism and Political Violence. 28(5): 868-887.
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Selected Public Analyses & Commentary​
  • Counter-Terrorism Targeted Killing of Hassan Nasrallah. Is Hezbollah Weaker? International Centre for Counter-Terrorism​. October 1, 2024.
  • Terrorism as a Strategy of Retribution. International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. June 13, 2024.
  • Turkey's Erdogan Took a Page from US Presidents and Boosted Reelection Campaign by Claiming to Have Killed a Terrorist. The Conversation. May 24, 2023.
  • The Buffalo Attack - An Analysis of the Manifesto. With Tahir Abbas, Inés Bolaños Somoano, Joana Cook, Isabelle Frens & Richard McNeil-Wilson. International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. May 18, 2022.
  • Using lies & disinformation, Putin and his team have been building the case for a Ukraine invasion for 14 years. The Conversation. April 5, 2022.
  • First Georgia, Then Ukraine: How Russian Propaganda Justifies Invasions. With Juris Pupcenoks. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (EIA) March 9, 2022. 
  • The Leader of ISIS is Dead, but are Targeted Killings Effective? International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. February 10, 2022.
  • Reframing Threats of Migrants in Europe. International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. December 13, 2021.
  • Trump Gambles on American Racial Tension. With Carla Martínez Machain & Efe Tokdemir. Political Violence @ a Glance. July 9, 2020.
  • Environmental Direct Action May Be Forgiven By Voters If They Can See That Conventional Politics Are Not Working. With Benjamin Farrer. London School of Economics - US Centre (USAPP). December 12, 2019.
  • Accommodating the Hong Kong Protests, It's Not Too Surprising. Political Violence @ a Glance. September 24, 2019.
  • Explaining Iran's Response to the Protests. With Patrick M. Regan. Political Violence @ a Glance. January 18, 2018.
  • Words and Deeds: Electoral Success for Greens in the US Leads to Less Environmental Sabotage. With Benjamin Farrer. London School of Economics - US Centre (USAPP). Nov. 2, 2017.
  • Will next week's U.S. elections lead to violence? Here's what environmental extremists can teach us. With Benjamin Farrer. The Washington Post, Monkey Cage. Nov. 1, 2016.
  • It's the Economy, Stupid (But Blame Minority Groups). With Efe Tokdemir & Carla Martínez Machain. Political Violence @ a Glance. October 27, 2016.
  • These Two Reasons Explain Why the Islamic State Attacked France Now. The Washington Post, 
    Monkey Cage. Nov. 18, 2015.
  • Rethinking Terrorism as a Strategy of Provocation. Political Violence @ a Glance. June 1, 2015.
  • Calling All Martyrs: Recruitment Incentives & Terror Attack Casualties. Quantitative Peace. September 9, 2014.


Media Appearances
  • BBC The World Today with Maryam Moshiri. January 2, 2025
    • ISIS inspired terrorist attack in New Orleans, USA
  • BBC World News. December 21, 2024
    • The Magdeburg, Germany Christmas Market attack
  • ​BBC Arabic News Bulletin. November 14, 2024
    • Potential Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire and implications for regional security
  • BBC Radio Scotland - Good Morning Scotland. October 19, 2024
    • Israel's counterterrorism targeted strikes against Hezbollah & killing Nasrallah
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