This blog discusses a shift in the motivations of terrorist groups from ideological causes to personal gain and criminal enterprise. The evolving landscape necessitates a reassessment of traditional understandings of terrorist motivations.

Terror for Profit: A New Paradigm for Understanding Terrorism and Organized Crime examines the difficulty in defining terrorism, a problem rooted in the lack of consensus over whether state actors can commit acts of terrorism

A discussion of the ongoing threat of terrorism around the anniversary of 9/11, highlighting two recent failed attacks linked to Islamic State on different continents. Labeling such attackers as religious terrorists may be a mischaracterization, calling for a reassessment of the modern terrorist threat.

Many of you will have read of the lone wolf attacks this week by an apparent Turkish youth with neo-Nazi links, and of the pro Gaza stabbing in New York. Both fit completely within the trends I outline in the book, with the Turkish youth a mirror of Ali Sonboly and Mauricio Garcia...

Senior policing veteran, Martin Gallagher, warns Scotland cannot be 'complacent' in wake of unrest. Martin Gallagher, a former Police Scotland superintendent, warned that Scotland “should not be complacent” in the aftermath of the violent disorder witnessed across swaths of England and Northern Ireland this summer, and pointing to the danger of police being perceived in “divisive” terms.

Former superintendent Martin Gallagher talks to 1919 about his new book linking terrorism to serious organised crime

Terror for Profit by Dr. Martin J. Gallager, story in the Edinburgh Reporter.

Terrorism in Scotland

Terror for Profit: High Tide

Terror for Profit: Terrorism and Mental Health

Terror for Profit, Part 5: The Return of State Sponsorship

Terror for Profit, Part 4: Stagnation

What drives terrorist and criminal actors and how to stop them

Terror for Profit, Part One: An Oceanography for Terrorism

Terror for Profit, Part 2: Tsunami of Attacks