Books
Cook, Joana and Lynn Schneider, “Extreme Childhoods: Growing Up in Families Affiliated with Violent Extremism and Terrorism,” Columbia University Press, 2026.
Ashraph, Sareta, Carmen Cheung Ka-Man, and Joana Cook, “Holding ISIL Accountable: Prosecuting Crimes in Iraq and Syria” (ed. volume), ICCT Press, June 2024.
Cook, Joana and Shiraz Maher, ‘The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance,” (ed. volume), Hurst and Oxford University Press, May 2023. Book launch webinar available to watch here.
Cook, Joana. “A Woman’s Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11,” Oxford University Press. January 2020. Hurst Publishers 2019. 564 p. ISBN 9780197506554.
*A 2020 book tour saw 15 stops across the US including locations such as Harvard, Yale, West Point, the Pentagon, the 9/11 Museum, Duke, House of Lords (UK) (amongst others).
**Short-listed for British International Studies Association (BISA) Susan Strange Best Book prize
Journal articles
Margolin, Devorah and Joana Cook, “Five Decades of Research on Women and Terrorism,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, May 2024. Access the full reading list of over 660 articles since the 1970s in tab “Women and Terrorism Database” above. Please cite article if referencing database.
Sarah Carthy, Graig Klein, Tommy van Steen, Joana Cook, “Radicalisation and extremism amongst adolescents and adults: A systematic review of measurement properties,” Campbell Collaboration Title Registration, 2024.
Cook, Joana and Lynn Schneider, “The life of children in families affiliated with terrorism: an ecological systems theory approach,” Critical Studies in Terrorism, February 2024.
Cook, Joana. “Distinguishing Children From ISIS-Affiliated Families in Iraq and Their Unique Barriers for Rehabilitation and Reintegration,” Perspectives on Terrorism, September 2023.
Roose, Josh and Joana Cook. “Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far Right and Male Supremacist Ideologies,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, July 2022.
Cook, Joana, Haid Haid, and Inga Trauthig, “Jurisprudence beyond the state – An analysis of Islamist courts in Libya, Syria and Yemen.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. June 2020.
Cook, Joana and Gina Vale. “From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’ II: The Challenges Posed by Women and Minors After the Fall of the Caliphate,” CTC Sentinel, 12:6, pp. 30-46, July 2019.
Book chapters
Cook, Joana, “Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in the Public Interest,” forthcoming in Rumyana van Ark, Tarik Gherbaoui, and James Patrick Sexton (eds.), Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in the Public Interest (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer), 2025.
Maher, Shiraz and Cook, Joana. “Introduction” in Cook, Joana and Shiraz Maher, ‘The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance,” ( ed. volume), Hurst and Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023.
Cook, Joana. “Women in jihadist practices of governance: the case of al-Qaeda and ISIS,” in Cook, Joana and Shiraz Maher, ‘The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance,” ( ed. volume), Hurst and Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023.
Cook, Joana. “AQAP and governance in Yemen: Post-conflict considerations.” Post War Yemen (ed.) Noel Brehony and Saud al-Sarhan. I.B. Tauris (Bloomsbury). 2021
Cook, Joana. “Human Security: A contribution to countering violent extremism.” Book chapter in Women and Human Security, edited by Richard Matthew, Gunhild Hoogensen and (the late) Patricia Weitsman. Ohio University Press. 2020.
Cook, Joana. “Women and terror post-9/11.” Ed. Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency Post 9/11. Edited David Martin Jones, Paul Schulte & M.L.R. Smith. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2019.
Cook, Joana. “Shifting Priorities: How International Terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’ Reconstitute Security Agendas – Women, Counterterrorism and the Case of Yemen.” Book Chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy, edited by Scott Romaniuk, et al. PalgraveMacMillan. June 2017.
Cook, Joana. “Our main concern is security.” Women’s political participation, engagement in the security sector, and public safety in Yemen.” Book Chapter in Rebuilding Yemen: Political, economic and social challenges edited by Noel Brehony and Saud al Sarhan. Gurlach Press (Germany). September 2015.
Major reports and Policy Briefs
Demuynck, Méryl and Joana Cook, “Case Management of Iraqi Adult Returnees in al-Amal: Drawing Lessons from Comparable Contexts,” IOM and ICCT, forthcoming 2025.
Schneider, Lynn and Joana Cook, “Extreme Childhoods: Growing up in Right-Wing Extremist and ISIS-Affiliated Families,” in EICTP Vienna Research papers on Transnational Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism series: “Evolving Trajectories of Extremism: The Conflict-Terror Nexus and its Impact on Contemporary Terrorist Threat Landscape,” p 127-141: February 2025.
Cook, Joana, Seran de Leede, Anna-Maria Andreeva, and Eva Hershinger, “Radicalisation and Gender –What do we know?,” ICCT Policy Brief, November 2024.
Cook, Joana, “The status of Iraqi children of ISIS-affiliated families outside of Jeddah 1 rehabilitation center,” XCEPT, War Studies, King’s College London, July 2024.
Margolin, Devorah and Joana Cook, “The Agency and Roles of Foreign Women in ISIS,” Centre for Justice and Accountability, August 2023.
ICCT and IOM, “Roundtables on Prosecution, Rehabilitation and Reintegration,” 2022.
Cook, Joana, Thomas Renard, Noora Kivioja, Maurween Veyret-Morau, Alessandra Mapelli, Sofia Koller and Vera Dittmar, “Professional Training for Dealing with Child Returnees: Current EU Experiences and Practices,” Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN), July 2022.
Cook, Joana. “Winning hearts and minds? The evolution of AQAP governance efforts in Yemen.” ICSR major report. September 2019.
Cook, Joana and Gina Vale, “From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’ II: The Challenges Posed by Women and Minors After the Fall of the Caliphate” ICSR Major Report. July 2019
Cook, Joana and Gina Vale. “From Daesh to diaspora, tracing the women and minors of Islamic State.” ICSR major report. July 2018.
* Includes first global dataset of women and minors from 80 countries that became affiliated with ISIS.
**Invited to present findings to UN Security Council.
Cook, Joana. “Avoiding the Pitfalls of Prevent.” Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security (GIWPS), Georgetown University. Occasional paper series. December 2017.
Cook, Joana. “Analyzing the formal and informal roles of women in security and justice in Yemen: Reflections for future considerations.” Canadian Network for the Study of Terrorism, Security and Society, Working paper series. No. 16-08. May 2016.
Cook, Joana. “Recruiters, mediators, allies, fighters? A critical examination of the roles of women in both countering and perpetrating violent extremism in Canada and the UK.” Policy report for Public Safety Canada, Government of Canada. 96 pg. March 2015.
Cook, Joana. “Women’s Roles in Yemen’s Police Force.” Saferworld. May 2015.
Other publications
Maher, Shiraz and Joana Cook, “The Caliphate: The persistence of a brutal ideology,” Engelsberg Ideas, 28 May 2024.
Renard, Thomas and Joana Cook. “Is the Israel-Hamas War Spilling over into Europe?” Lawfare, 5 December 2023.
Cook, Joana. “What’s next for Children in ISIS-affiliated families in Iraq?” XCEPT, 21 November 2022.
Tahir Abbas, Inés Bolaños Somoano, Joana Cook, Isabelle Frens, Graig R. Klein, Richard McNeil-Willson, “The Buffalo attack – An analysis of the manifesto” ICCT Perspective, 18 May 2022.
Cook, Joana and Vanessa Newby. “An interview with NATO on gender and counter-terrorism.” ICCT, 9 April 2021.
Mehra, Tanya and Joana Cook. “An attack on the Capitol and democracy: an act of terrorism?” ICCT Perspective, 11 January 2021.
Coleman, Julie and Joana Cook. “Shamima Begum, citizenship revocation and the question of due process,” ICCT Perspective, 17 July 2020.
Margolin, Devorah, Joana Cook and Charlie Winter, “In Syria, the Women and Children of ISIS Have Been Forgotten,” Foreign Policy, 26 October 2019.
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