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Stephane Baele

Professeur
stephane.baele@uclouvain.be

SSH/ESPO Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication (ESPO)

SSH/ESPO/PSAD Ecole des Sciences politiques et sociales / Louvain School of Political and Social Sciences (PSAD)

SSH/SPLE Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE)

  • Expertise :
  • International Relations
  • security studies
  • terrorism
  • political violence
  • online extremism
  • text analysis
  • visual analysis

Stephane Baele is Professor of International Studies at UCLouvain, and Honorary Associate Professor of Security & Political Violence at the University of Exeter (UK), where he taught from 2014 until 2023. His work focuses on the role of communication, language, and visuals in extremism, terrorism, political violence, and conflict, with expertise in the far-right online ecosystem and incel digital spaces, among others. He is the author of the book ISIS Propaganda (Oxford University Press) and over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these issues, published in journals across the social sciences, such as the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Genocide Research, International Theory, the Journal of Language & Social Psychology, Political Psychology, Terrorism & Political Violence, etc.

Adresse postale
ESPO - Bâtiment B
M1.01.01
Chaussée de Binche 151
7000 Mons
PSAD
BATB - Bâtiment B
Étage 03 Bureau B 312
7000 Mons
2025
Article de journal

Baele, S., Brace, L., & Naserian, E. (2025). More is More: Scaling up Online Extremism and Terrorism Research with Computer Vision. Perspectives on Terrorism, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.19165/2025.1559 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245823


Baele, S. (2025). Power-Law Online Terrorism and Extremism. Perspectives on Terrorism, 19(2), 114-126. https://doi.org/10.19165/FGGW5148 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/247968


Ging, D., Baele, S., Brace, L., Long, S., & Murphy, S. (2025). Aesthetics of misogyny and the repulsive gaze: Worldview, affect, and ideology in incel imagery. New Media & Society. Published. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251348251 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/275014


Baele, S., & Brace, L. (2025). Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2025.2480622 (Original work published 2025)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245816


2024
Article de journal

Baele, S., & et al. (2024). Is AI-Generated Extremism Credible? Experimental Evidence from an Expert Survey. Terrorism and Political Violence. Published. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2024.2380089 (Original work published 2024)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/275230


Baele, S., Bukhari, I., Whyte, C., Cuomo, S., Jensen, B., Payne, K., & Garcia, E. V. (2024). AI IR: Charting International Relations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. International Studies Review, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viae013 (Original work published 2024)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245817


Monographie

Baele, S., & et al. (2024). AI Extremism: Technology, Tactics, Actors. VOX-Pol.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/242669


2023
Article de journal

Baele, S., Brace, L., & Ging, D. (2023). A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem. Terrorism and Political Violence, 36(3), 382-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2022.2161373 (Original work published 2023)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245813


Slingeneyer de Goeswin, T., & Baele, S. (2023). La contrainte de la quantité : de l’omniprésence du chiffre en politique. Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques. Accepted/in-press. (Original work published 2023)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/26892


Brace, L., Baele, S., & Ging, D. (2023). Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable’ ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 19(2), 103-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2226667 (Original work published 2023)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245826


2020
Article de journal

Baele, S., Brace, L., & Coan, T. G. (2020). Uncovering the Far-Right Online Ecosystem: An Analytical Framework and Research Agenda. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 46(9), 1599-1623. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2020.1862895 (Original work published 2020)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245824


2019
Article de journal

Baele, S., Sterck, O. C., Slingeneyer, T., & Lits, G. (2019). What Does the “Terrorist” Label Really Do? Measuring and Explaining the Effects of the “Terrorist” and “Islamist” Categories. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 42(5), 520-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2017.1393902 (Original work published 2019)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245819


2017
Article de journal

Baele, S., Sterck, O., Lewis, D., Hoeffler, A., & Slingeneyer, T. (2017). The Ethics of Security Research. An Ethics Framework for Contemporary Security Studies. International Studies Perspectives, 19(2), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekx003 (Original work published 2018)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/249318


2016
Papier de conférence

Slingeneyer, T., & Baele, S. (2016). Parler de l’insécurité. Effet de langage dans la communication du terrorisme. Collège Belgique, Bruxelles.

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245814


2009
Article de journal

Lits, G., & Baele, S. (2009). Manifeste de la revue - Émulations : un quadruple dialogue. Emulations, 2(5), 191-193. (Original work published 2009)

https://research.dial.uclouvain.be/handle/2078.5/245812