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In COVID's shadow, global terrorism goes quiet. But we have seen this before, and should be wary

  • Written by Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
In COVID's shadow, global terrorism goes quiet. But we have seen this before, and should be waryAlaa Al-Marjani/AAP

Have we flattened the curve of global terrorism? In our COVID-19-obsessed news cycle stories about terrorism and terrorist attacks have largely disappeared. We now, though, understand a little more about how pandemics work.

And ironically, long before the current pandemic, the language of epidemiology proved helpful in...

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