Jeffrey M Bale
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey M Bale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bale |
| SIGNATURE | BALE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From white power to the preservation of national cultures
Until recently, the attempts by organized right-wing groups to exploit and make instrumental use of musical genres and music-oriented subcultures and countercultures to promote their political, soc
The potential for collaboration between Islamists and Western left-wing extremists
The question of potential leftist–Islamist collaboration is important because if such collaboration were to materialize, Western security agencies could be faced with a new type of terrorist threat. This study identifies the potential strategic and tactical facilitators of such collaboration. While noting the many ideological disparities and antipathies between these two milieus, we also highlight certain ideological pivots around which collabora…
Islamism and Totalitarianism
Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qaʿidat al‐Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever‐growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, or – worst of all – ‘Islamist apologism’. The purpose …
Political paranoia v. political realism
Scholars and intellectuals often fail to pay sufficient attention to the historical and political importance of conspiratorial politics, that is, real-world covert and clandestine activities. This is primarily because they rarely make an effort to distinguish conceptually between such activities, which are a regular if not omnipresent feature of national and international politics, and bogus ‘conspiracy theories’, elaborate fantasies that purport…
South Africa’s Project Coast
On 11 April 2002, approximately seven months after the devastating terrorist attack launched by al-Qāida operatives on United States soil, a South African judge acquitted Dr. Wouter Basson, the Pro
The may 1973 terrorist attack at Milan police HQ
Between 1968 and 1974 Italy was subjected to an unusually virulent campaign of right‐wing terrorism and subversion. An illustrative episode associated with this so‐called ‘strategy of tension’, which was characterized by the systematic use of covert ‘false flag’ operations, was the 17 May 1973 grenade attack outside Milan police headquarters that resulted in four dead and over 40 injured. Although the perpetrator, Gianfranco Bertoli, claimed to b…
Political paranoia v. political realism
Scholars and intellectuals often fail to pay sufficient attention to the historical and political importance of conspiratorial politics, that is, real-world covert and clandestine activities. This is primarily because they rarely make an effort to distinguish conceptually between such activities, which are a regular if not omnipresent feature of national and international politics, and bogus ‘conspiracy theories’, elaborate fantasies that purport…
The potential for collaboration between Islamists and Western left-wing extremists
The question of potential leftist–Islamist collaboration is important because if such collaboration were to materialize, Western security agencies could be faced with a new type of terrorist threat. This study identifies the potential strategic and tactical facilitators of such collaboration. While noting the many ideological disparities and antipathies between these two milieus, we also highlight certain ideological pivots around which collabora…
The may 1973 terrorist attack at Milan police HQ
Between 1968 and 1974 Italy was subjected to an unusually virulent campaign of right‐wing terrorism and subversion. An illustrative episode associated with this so‐called ‘strategy of tension’, which was characterized by the systematic use of covert ‘false flag’ operations, was the 17 May 1973 grenade attack outside Milan police headquarters that resulted in four dead and over 40 injured. Although the perpetrator, Gianfranco Bertoli, claimed to b…
South Africa’s Project Coast
On 11 April 2002, approximately seven months after the devastating terrorist attack launched by al-Qāida operatives on United States soil, a South African judge acquitted Dr. Wouter Basson, the Pro
Political paranoia v. political realism
Scholars and intellectuals often fail to pay sufficient attention to the historical and political importance of conspiratorial politics, that is, real-world covert and clandestine activities. This is primarily because they rarely make an effort to distinguish conceptually between such activities, which are a regular if not omnipresent feature of national and international politics, and bogus ‘conspiracy theories’, elaborate fantasies that purport…
Islamism and Totalitarianism
Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qaʿidat al‐Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever‐growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, or – worst of all – ‘Islamist apologism’. The purpose …
The potential for collaboration between Islamists and Western left-wing extremists
The question of potential leftist–Islamist collaboration is important because if such collaboration were to materialize, Western security agencies could be faced with a new type of terrorist threat. This study identifies the potential strategic and tactical facilitators of such collaboration. While noting the many ideological disparities and antipathies between these two milieus, we also highlight certain ideological pivots around which collabora…
From white power to the preservation of national cultures
Until recently, the attempts by organized right-wing groups to exploit and make instrumental use of musical genres and music-oriented subcultures and countercultures to promote their political, soc
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Terrorism (4 works) · Covert (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)