Journal Articles

Mathieson, Nicola. (2025). Explaining Variation in Foreign Fighter Returnee Pathways. Terrorism and Political Violence, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2025.2544627

Channon, Lydia and Mathieson, Nicola. “Automated Detection of Mainstreamed Transphobic Content on YouTube.” Special Issue Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation in Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (2025). Accepted

Mathieson, Nicola. “Foreign Fighter Experience and Impact.” Small Wars & Insurgencies 33, no. 6 (August 11, 2022): 927–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2022.2109888.

Mathieson, Nicola. “A Dangerous Balance: Indiscriminate Counterterrorism Measures and Mobilization against the State.” Journal of Global Security Studies 6, no. 4 (December 2021): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab014.

Mathieson, Nicola. “The Intersection of the Bosnian War, the Mujahideen, and Counterterrorism Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Oxford Middle East Review 2, no. 1 (2018): 19–25.

Book Project

Mathieson, Nicola. “Integrating Foreign Fighters: Lessons from the Afghan Conflicts.” Under Contract

Book Chapters

Jacob, Cecilia, and Nicola Mathieson. “Drone Warfare and the Human Protection Transnational Legal Order.” In Drones and Global Order. Routledge, 2021.

Reports and Academic Blogs

Gagnon, Audrey, and Nicola Mathieson. “C-REX & VOX-Pol PhD Summer School: The Importance of Visiting Memorial Sites for Researchers.” VOX - Pol, September 10, 2025. https://voxpol.eu/importance-of-visiting-memorial-sites-for-researchers/.

Gagnon, Audrey, and Nicola Mathieson. “C-REX & VOX-Pol PhD Summer School: Building Community Among PhD and ECR Scholars.” VOX - Pol, September 3, 2025. https://voxpol.eu/c-rex-vox-pol-phd-summer-school-building-community-among-phd-and-ecr-scholars/.

Gagnon, Audrey, and Nicola Mathieson. “Reflections from the 2025 Summer School on Studying Online Far-Right Extremism.” RightNow! (blog), August 6, 2025.

Mathieson Nicola, “User Journeys in Online Extremist Groups: An Introduction”. London: Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), July 2024. https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-185

“Conspiracy Theories: A Guide for Members of Parliament and Candidates”. London: Antisemitism Policy Trust, May 2024 (Contributor)

Gagnon, Audrey, and Nicola Mathieson. “Working with Extremist Content Online: Strategies to Improve Researcher Wellbeing.” RightNow! (blog), August 2023.

Mathieson, Nicola. “Foreign fighter or foreign volunteer: what’s in a name?” Civil War Paths Sustaining Peace series. December, 2022.

Working Papers

Mathieson, Nicola and Chris Patane. “Early Warnings: Domestic and Gender-based Violence as a Predictor “of Lone-Actor Terrorism.”

Arens, Sarah, Emily Kearon-Warrilow and Nicola Mathieson. “Youth Movements Against Fascist Intervention in the Spanish Civil War: Letters from the League of Nations Archive.”

Kiss, Annamaria, Alexander Mackenzie, Nicola Mathieson and Louise Tiessen. “Reconceptualising Foreign Fighters.”

Arens, Saran and Nicola Mathieson. “There’s a Storm Brewing: Transnational Weather Conspiracies and the Platformed Rise of Far-Right Ecologies.”

Other Media

‘The Digitization of Terrorism.’ #cyberchat4all webinar, The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) of the Organisation of American States, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvqF0ARHkVg

“Episode V: Would I Lie to You? The Weaponisation of Social Media.” Exploring Extremism Podcast, UNDP, 2022 https://pveportal.org/podcast/.