Yaqub Ibrahimi

Biographic Data

ID2268605
NAMEYaqub Ibrahimi
GIVEN NAMESYaqub
FAMILY NAMEIbrahimi
SIGNATUREIBRAHIMI Y
AFFILIATIONSCarleton University
ORCID0000-0002-1336-2778
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Conflict and democratization in Afghanistan

    Yaqub IbrahimiARTICLESmall Wars and Insurgencies2024References: 43

    The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 terminated the country’s democratisation. The crisis was more an outcome of the two-decade-long flawed state-building and democratisation, and the escalation of the insurgency than an overnight change in the country’s politico-military landscape. This paper examines Afghanistan’s failed democratization from 2001 to 2021 by focusing on five variables including stateness, welfare, rule of law, political…

  • False negotiations and the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban

    Open AccessYaqub IbrahimiARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…2022Cited by: 2

    This paper examines the dark side of Afghanistan’s peace negotiations that started under Donald Trump’s South Asia policy in Doha, Qatar, in September 2018 and ended, without a meaningful success, in December 2020. The paper examines both the United States–Taliban and the intra-Afghan negotiations and discusses the impact of the false negotiation behaviour by the Taliban and the Afghan government on the peace talks. It also explains how, in the a…

  • International Relations and political violence: A study of the causes of domestic Jihadist violence in a transatlantic context

    Open AccessYaqub IbrahimiARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…2020

    Two decades after the 9/11 attacks, homegrown jihadist violence (HJV) in the West has almost disappeared, but the causes and conditions fomenting the phenomenon have not changed much. In this paper, I argue that, despite the security services’ ability to physically destroy the structures and networks of HJV in separate national contexts, the spectre of HJV is haunting theWest as a transnational problem. Dealing effectively with this problem requi…

  • Violence-producing Dynamics of Fragile States: How State Fragility in Iraq Contributed to the Emergence of Islamic State

    Yaqub IbrahimiARTICLETerrorism and Political Violence2020

    In the post-Cold War era, “Jihadi-Salafi Groups” (JSGs) have emerged as significant “violence-making” organizations. Almost all JSGs have emerged in highly fragile states. The literature on the state fragility-terrorism nexus, by focusing exclusively on whether state fragility is a cause of terrorism or not, has failed to consider the broader impact of state fragility on the emergence of JSGs. The role of state fragility as a condition of the eme…

  • Afghanistan’s Political Development Dilemma: The Centralist State Versus a Centrifugal Society

    Open AccessYaqub IbrahimiARTICLEJournal of South Asian Development2019Cited by: 4References: 10

    This article examines how a troubled relationship between a centralist state and centrifugal society has posed a serious challenge to state-building in Afghanistan. Drawing on ‘state–society relations’ theory, the article examines how this persistent obstacle has repeatedly interfered with efforts to consolidate a sovereign state in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The article investigates the historical roots of the uneven relationship between the stat…

  • Unipolar politics and global peace: A structural explanation of the globalizing jihad

    Yaqub IbrahimiARTICLEDynamics of Asymmetric Conflict2018References: 7

    Following the end of the cold war, the international system transformed from a bipolar to a unipolar system. Unipolarity is not peaceful. It has contributed to the generation of conflict-producing mechanisms and nonstate actors that have driven sovereign states in lengthy asymmetric wars. Drawing on IR debates on the “peacefulness” of the unipolar system, this paper investigates how unipolarity and unipolar policies contributed to the transformat…

  • State formation in Afghanistan: A theoretical and political history

    Yaqub IbrahimiARTICLECentral Asian Survey2018References: 2

    Rahimi provides a post-structural/postcolonial critique of the ‘official discourse of state formation in Afghanistan’. He draws on a set of theories, particularly post-structuralism, ‘discourse the

  • Theory of the rise of al-Qaeda

    Yaqub IbrahimiARTICLEBehavioral Sciences of Terrorism…2017References: 16

    Since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, al-Qaeda and other extremist Islamist groups have become a focal point of international security debates. Drawing on the ‘levels of analysis’ theory of international relations, this paper examines the root causes of the emergence of al-Qaeda in an integrative framework which organizes the individual, group, and international level causes of this organization in a single account.…

  • The Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996-2001): War-Making and State-Making' as an Insurgency Strategy

    Yaqub IbrahimiARTICLESmall Wars and Insurgencies2017Cited by: 4References: 16

    This paper examines the institutional and functional aspects of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). The Taliban’s coercive approach and its entire reliance on “war-making” to “state-making” shows the difficulty of the transformation of an insurgent group into a state structure. The Taliban was primarily capable of establishing a two-track system of governance. However, the assessment of the IEA’s institutional and functional capab…