Mia M Bloom

Biographic Data

ID1417522
NAMEMia M Bloom
GIVEN NAMESMia M
FAMILY NAMEBloom
SIGNATUREBLOOM M M
AFFILIATIONSGeorgia State University
ORCID0000-0001-9666-8029
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS137
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • The Cambridge Handbook on the Economics of Terrorism

    Open AccessAtin Basuchoudhary, Tod Sandler et al.BOOKThe Cambridge Handbook on the…2026

    Since the turn of the century, few issues have shaped political debate and policy-making more than terrorism. As a result, there has been a huge increase in the amount of academic research devoted to investigating the causes and consequences of terrorism. The Cambridge Handbook on the Economics of Terrorism is the first to present a state-of-the art survey of the economics of terrorism. It adopts a rational-choice perspective according to which t…

  • Gender-Bender Narratives: Radicalizing Effects of Disinformation That Threatens Gender-Normative Views

    Open AccessSophia Moskalenko, Ekaterina Romanova et al.ARTICLECrime & Delinquency2025

    Gender norms have become a focal point of cultural debate and wedge issues in political elections, leading to discussions on how they may impact political and psychological processes and potentially radicalize individuals who feel threatened by or uncomfortable as the norms shift. We investigated the relationship between beliefs about gender-threatening disinformation narratives and radicalization, and the role of “fragile” masculinity and femini…

  • Attitudes Toward Jews and Israel: Profiles Linked to Political Violence in the United States

    Sophia Moskalenko, Tamara Pavlovic et al.ARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2025

  • When Sexually Assaulted Women Are Not Believed: “Ideal Victims” and Political Relativity in the October 7 Hamas Attack

    Mia M Bloom, Mia Bloom et al.ARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2024Cited by: 1

    This research note investigates the reasons for the silence, disbelief, and denial of the sexual atrocities perpetrated by Hamas during the October 7 attack. It employs as a framework Christie's "ideal victim" conceptualization as adapted by van Wijk to explain the silence of international organizations and female-led civil society groups, about the abuse of Israeli women, including ensuing debates, despite expert reports documenting sexual abuse…

  • From Pawn to Knights: The Changing Role of Women’s Agency in Terrorism

    Mia M Bloom, Mia Bloom et al.ARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2020Cited by: 10

    As terrorist groups became more technologically advanced with their media campaigns, the global audience began to see pictures of women in black burkas pledging allegiance to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and posing with guns. Although there is a backlash against such change that we see reflected in the ideologies of violent extremism; the shifts in gender relations within these groups are significant to examine. Further, w…

  • Constructing Expertise: Terrorist Recruitment and “Talent Spotting” in the Pira, Al Qaeda, and Isis

    Mia M Bloom, Mia BloomARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2016Cited by: 14References: 29

    The academic literature is divided with regard to whether terrorist recruits are dangerous masterminds, “malevolently creative,” and capable of perpetrating well-planned mass casualty attacks in the heart of European capitals. Or whether they are imbeciles, incapable of carrying out the most basic tasks, who mostly end up blowing themselves up by accident. This duality about the capabilities of terrorists is reflected in analyses of terrorist inc…

  • Bombshells: Women and Terror

    Open AccessMia M Bloom, Mia BloomARTICLEGender Issues2011Cited by: 18References: 2

  • Book Note: Making Sense of Suicide Missions

    Open AccessMia M Bloom, Mia BloomARTICLEJournal of Peace Research2006

  • Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Public Support, Market Share, and Outbidding

    Open AccessMia M Bloom, Mia BloomARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2004Cited by: 81

    Journal Article Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Public Support, Market Share, and Outbidding Get access Mia M. Bloom Mia M. Bloom MIA M. BLOOM is a research fellow at the Center for Global Security and Democracy at Rutgers University, term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. Her research investigates the phenomenon of atrocities against civilia…

  • Ethnic conflict, state terror and suicide bombing in Sri Lanka

    Mia M Bloom, Mia BloomARTICLECivil Wars2003Cited by: 13References: 7

    What accounts for the absence of extremism surrounding the current peace talks between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan state? In similar cases of ethnic conflict, the strategies employed by the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have exacerbated extremism on both sides and led to ever increasing degrees of violence. In the Palestinian case, for example, suicide bombings mobilized and radicalized the Palestin…

  • Atrocities and armed conflict: State consolidation in Israel, 1948-56

    Mia M Bloom, Mia BloomARTICLEConflict Security and Development2001

    This paper contrasts four cases of atrocity in the early years of the Israeli state and contends that, due to ethnic-cleansing incentives, competitive inducements and outbidding, the stated Israeli ideology of self-restraint had little impact on policy. The article further argues that, during the early periods of democratic state consolidation, democratic states act in very similar ways to authoritarian states and that little restraint is exercis…