Joana Cook
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. J.L.I. Cook Ph.D.
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9506
- j.l.i.cook@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Joana Cook is a graduate of King’s College London where she completed her MA and PhD in the Department of War Studies (BA University of Regina). Her research more broadly focuses on women in violent extremism, countering violent extremism, and counter-terrorism practices. More recent scholarly interests include non-state actor governance, and factors and pathways to radicalization. She was appointed Associate Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence in 2020.
More information about Joana Cook
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Innovating terrorism with AI -
What does Islamist rule look like? -
Identifying vulnerabilities and stigmas of children from parents in violent extremist networks -
Flashpoints: an interactive game on counter-terrorism -
1325 twenty years on – the evolution of the WPS agenda after 9/11 -
Welcoming Three New Colleagues at Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Research output
PhD candidates
Research Projects
Women in International Security
Joana Cook is a Research Affiliate at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization. Joana is also an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University; a non-resident Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University; a Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS); and a Digital Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), Concordia University.
She has presented her research to senior government and security audiences in a number of countries, and at institutions such as the UN Security Council, NATO, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Oxford and Cambridge. She has also been featured in media such as Time, the Telegraph, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times and on BBC World News, CNN, Sky News, BBC Radio, the National Post and CBC. In May 2019 she did her first TEDx talk on women in security.
She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Regina, an MA in Conflict, Security and Development, and PhD in War Studies (both from King’s College London.
Assistant professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Cook J.L.I. & Schneider L. (2024), The life of children in families affiliated with terrorism: an ecological systems theory approach, Critical Studies on Terrorism : 275-303.
- Margolin D & Cook J. (2024), Five decades of research on women and terrorism, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism : 1-31.
- Ashraph S, Cheung Ka-Man C & Cook J.L.I. (Eds.) (2024), Holding ISIL accountable: prosecuting crimes in Iraq and Syria. The Hague: ICCT Press.
- Cook Joana (2023), Distinguishing Children From ISIS-Affiliated Families in Iraq and Their Unique Barriers for Rehabilitation and Reintegration, Perspectives on Terrorism XVII(3): .
- Ed. Joana Cook and Shiraz Maher (2023), The Rule is for None But Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance . USA: Oxford University Press.
- Shiraz Maher Joana Cook (2023), Introduction. In: Joana Cook Shiraz Maher (Ed.), The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance. USA: Oxford University Press. 1-36.
- Joana Cook (2023), Women in jihadist practices of governance . In: Joana Cook Shiraz Maher (Ed.), The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance. USA: Oxford University Press. 205-230.
- Abbas T., Bolaños Somoano I., Cook J., Frens I., Klein G. R. & McNeil-Willson R. (18 May 2022), The Buffalo Attack – An Analysis of the Manifesto. The Hague, Netherlands: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. [web article].
- Roose J.M. & Cook J.L.I. (2022), Supreme men, subjected women: gender inequality and violence in Jihadist, far right and male supremacist ideologies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism : 1-29.
- Cook J.L.I. (2021), Their fate is tied to ours: assessing AQAP governance and implications for security in Yemen. In: Alsoswa A.A.A. & Brehony N. (Eds.), Building a new Yemen. UK: I.B. Tauris.
- Cook J.L.I. (2021), A woman's place: US counterterrorism since 9/11. UK: Hurst Publishers.
- Cook Joana Haid Haid Trauthig Inga (2020), Jurisprudence Beyond the State: An Analysis of Jihadist “Justice” in Yemen, Syria and Libya, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 46: 559-578.
- Joana Cook (2020), Human Security: A contribution to countering violent extremism. In: R. Matthew P. Weitsman & G. Hoogensen (Ed.), Women's Perspectives on Human Security: Violence, Environment, and Sustainability. USA: Ohio University Press. 97-125.
- Joana Cook (2019), Women and terror after 9/11: The case of Islamic State. In: David Martin Jones Paul Schulte Carl Ungerer and M.L.R Smith (Ed.), Handbook of Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Post 9/11. Chletenhan, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 143-159.
- Devorah Margolin Charlie Winter Joana Cook (2019), In Syria, the women and children of ISIS have been forgotten, Foreign Policy : .
- Joana Cook (2019), A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism Since 9/11. USA: Oxford University Press.
- Joana Cook Gina Vale (2019), From Daesh to 'Diaspora' II: The challenges posed by women and minors after the fall of the caliphate, CTC Sentinel 12(6): 30 (46).
- Joana Cook (2019), “Their Fate is Tied to Ours”: Assessing AQAP Governance and Implications for Security in Yemen. UK: The International Centre for the Study of Radicalization.
- Joana Cook Gina Vale (2018), From Daesh to 'Diaspora': Tracing the women and minors of Islamic State. UK: The International Centre for the Study of Radicalization.
- Expert Witness Testimony
- Adjunct lecturer