Raffaello Pantucci is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) based in Hong Kong. Previously, he served for around three years at a Senior Fellow at RSIS in Singapore. Prior to moving to Singapore he led the International Security Studies team at the Royal United Services Institute in London where is also currently a Senior Associate Fellow. Earlier in his career he has worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) in China (as well as holding associate positions at a number of other institutes). His work has focused on terrorism and counter-terrorism, as well as China’s relations with its western neighbours. He is the author of the well-received We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists (UK: Hurst, US: Oxford University Press, 2015), and co-author (with Alexandros Petersen) of Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire (Oxford University Press, 2022). He has provided advice to governments in Europe and Asia, testified before legislative committees in the US, UK and Europe and his work has been quoted in the UK’s Contest counter-terrorism strategy. He has published in numerous academic journals, in newspapers like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times (amongst others) as well as presented radio and television documentaries for the BBC (and provided commentary elsewhere). For more of his work, please see: http://www.raffaellopantucci.com

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 15 Issue 02

  13 March, 2023

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 03

  14 June, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 04

  13 September, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 02

  23 March, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 01

  04 January, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 03

  23 April, 2020

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 02

  27 March, 2020

RSIS Commentaries

• China’s International Terrorist Problem

  28 August, 2023

• Central Asia Among Giants: Taking a Leaf from ASEAN

  31 May, 2023

• Terrorism in Europe: A Very Different Kind of Threat

  15 July, 2022

• End of Al Qaeda Era?

  03 December, 2020

• Incels and Terrorism: Sexual Deprivation As Security Threat

  06 October, 2020

• ISIS in the Maldives?

  03 April, 2020

• Responding to Streatham: Managing Low-Tech Terrorist Threat

  10 February, 2020

Authored Books

• Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire (with Alexandros Petersen). UK: Oxford University Press, 2022

Journal Articles

• “Paving the Digital Silk Road with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation” (with Niva Yau) in Paving the Digital Silk Road with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, 2022
• “A View from the CT Foxhole: Gilles de Kerchove, European Union (EU) Counter-Terrorism Coordinator” in CTC Sentinel, Vol. 13, No. 8, 2020
• “In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba” in RUSI Journal, Vol 165, No. 3, 2020, pp 98-100
• “Abdullah al-Faisal’s Global Jihad” in Lawfare, 2020
• “A View from the CT Foxhole: Jonathan Evans, Former Director General, MI5” in CTC Sentinel, Vol 13, No. 3, 2020

Op-Eds

• “China still reluctant to use its power and influence in Eurasia, despite crises in Ukraine and Afghanistan”, South China Morning Post, 19 January 2023
• “2023 outlook: Central Asia is not out of the woods yet”, Nikkei Asia Review, 29 December 2022
• “Downgrade counter-terrorism efforts at your peril”, Financial Times, 21 December 2022
• “Why Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan’s hopes of using China as a hedge against Russia could be doomed”, South China Morning Post, 10 December 2022
• “The Evolving Terror Threat in the UK”, RUSI, 6 December 2022
• “Did al-Qaeda Die with Ayman al-Zawahiri?” (with Kabir Taneja), Lawfare, 4 December 2022
• “Inheriting the Storm: Beijing’s Difficult New Relationship with Kabul”, The Diplomat, 1 December 2022
• “China won’t be filling the void left by the US in Afghanistan any time soon”, South China Morning Post, 18 November 2022
• “Russian proxies seize the advantage in Africa’s Islamist insurgencies”, Financial Times, 3 November 2022
• “Afghanistan: The new geopolitical arena for China and India”, LKY School Center for Globalization, 29 September 2022
• “China’s growing clout in Central Asia”, The Straits Times, 20 September 2022
• “Why Xi Jinping Chose Central Asia for his first post-COVID-19 trip”, Foreign Policy, 16 September 2022
• “China and Russia to showcase alternative world order at SCO Summit”, Nikkei Asia Review, 12 September 2022
• “Terrorism Fused with great power conflict may be the west’s next challenge”, Financial Times, 21 August 2022
• “Afghanistan shows the limits of China’s Belt and Road”, Nikkei Asia Review, 19 August 2022
• “China in Afghanistan: The Year of Moving Gradually”, ISPI, 11 August 2022
• “China is doomed to play a significant role in Afghanistan” (with Alexandros Petersen), Foreign Policy, 31 July 2022
• “Jihadism in the United Kingdom”, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 22 July 2022
• “Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism in the UK: How Concerned Should We Be?”, RUSI, 21 July 2022
• “Trouble Brews in Central Asia”, The Straits Times, 15 July 2022
• “The Perils of ignoring Eurasian instability”, Nikkei Asia Review, 9 July 2022
• “The Rising Tension Between China and Russia” (with Alexandros Petersen), Prospect, 24 June 2022
• “China wants its investments in Afghanistan to be safer than in Pakistan” (with Ajmal Waziri), Foreign Policy, 3 May 2022
• “Karachi terror attack strains Pakistan’s ties with China”, Nikkei Asia Review, 3 May 2022
• “China’s Current security approaches and interests in Afghanistan”, US China Economic and Security Review Commission, 1 May 2022
• “Living Dangerously in Russia’s backyard”, The Straits Times, 30 April 2022
• “An MP’s Murder: The Failure of the Prevent Programme?”, RUSI, 29 April 2022
• “How Pakistan’s new prime minister completes a favorable picture for China in the region”, South China Morning Post, 19 April 2022
• “China’s transport links with Central Asia in the spotlight”, Splash, 18 April 2022
• “Ukraine war: how the West’s focus on China’s ties with Russia misses the bigger geopolitical picture”, South China Morning Post, 7 April 2022
• “Western powers should exploit Central Asia’s unease over Ukraine war”, Nikkei Asia Review, 6 April 2022
• “Eurasia in turmoil: how China’s passivity foments the chaos”, South China Morning Post, 13 March 2022
• “Central Asia braces for economic catastrophe”, Nikkei Asia Review, 7 March 2022
• “Terrorism and the Mind”, BBC, 7 March 2022
• “China’s Soft Shoe on Ukraine”, RUSI, 3 March 2022
• “The Evolving Terrorism Threat to Europe”, Current History, 1 March 2022
• “Encouraging Britons to Fight in Ukraine is hypocritical”, The Times, 1 March 2022
• “Western intelligence was mocked after Iraq. With Ukraine, it has redeemed itself”, The Telegraph, 24 February 2022
• “Strange though it sounds, America may come to regret killing the leader of ISIS”, The Telegraph, 4 February 2022
• “China’s Kazakh Concerns”, The Straits Times, 15 January 2022
• “Why China won’t lose sleep over Russian troops in Kazakhstan”, South China Morning Post, 12 January 2022
• “Kazakhstan in crisis: Its About the country, not big power politics”, RUSI, 6 January 2022
• “Terrorism is a War the Taliban Cannot Win”, The Straits Times, 13 November 2021
• “Shape-shifting terrorism: The new challenge” (with Shashi Jayakumar), The Straits Times, 9 September 2021
• “Jihadis Will Remain A Threat Under The Taliban Government”, Financial Times, 5 September 2021
• “We Might Be Done With Jihadis But They Are Not Done With Us”, Financial Times , 11 July 2021
• “Reasons for the rise and rise of QAnon”, The Straits Times, 2 September 2020
• “Why China is becoming the bogeyman in its border lands”, South China Morning Post, 2 September 2020
• “Fifteen years on from 7/7, terrorism has changed but the jihadist threat persists”, Prospect, 7 July 2020
• “From Fringe to Mainstream: The Extreme Rightwing in Europe” (with Kyler Ong), ORF, 1 July 2020
• “Beware the spirit of the Wolf Warrior”, The Straits Times, 23 June 2020
• “Drifting definitions of terrorism endanger us all”, Financial Times, 14 June 2020
• “Jihadactivist”, GNET, 29 April 2020
• “COVID-19 is fuel to the flames of security threats”, The Straits Times, 27 April 2020
• “Beware of terrorists offering COVID-19 aid” (with Kabir Taneja), Observer Research Foundation, 17 April 2020
• “Don’t Lose Sight of the Enduring Global Terrorist Threat”, RUSI Commentary, 30 March 2020
• “The Singapore Model: A New Deradicalisation Approach for the UK?” (with Shashi Jayakumar), RUSI Newsbrief, 13 March 2020
• “Running amok in an age of meaningless terror”, Straits Times, 10 March 2020
• “Seen from UK, Kashmir fits the global roster of causes for Jihadists”, Observer Research Foundation, 29 February 2020
• “Abdullah el Faisal’s Persistent Screed”, GNET, 28 February 2020
• “Tougher Sentencing Won’t Stop Terrorism”, Foreign Policy, 10 February 2020. Republished in Tougher Sentencing Won’t Stop Terrorism