Publications

Dr. Nicole Matejic has published widely on national security challenges such as radicalisation, preventing and countering violent extremism, behavioural economics, information warfare, influence operations, crisis communications, misinformation and disinformation.

Forthcoming Books:

2024 - The Hate Economy: The Lies People Sell that Lead to Violence

2024 - [Working title based on my doctoral thesis] The Jihadi Nudge: Using Behavioural Economics to Understand How People Influenced Towards Violent Extremes by Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

2025 - They Called Him Barney. A Memoir.

Forthcoming Papers:

'Rethinking building Digital Resilience to Radicalisation: Reducing a Person's Susceptibility to Influence through Dissuasion.' South East Asian Regional Centre for Counter Terrorism (SEARCCT) Conference Paper.

'The Radicalisation Spectrum: How an Individual's Susceptibility to Influence - not Ideology - Incubates Radicalisation Towards Violent Extremism.'

'The Radicalisation Cascade: Using Behavioural Economics as a Framework to Understand How People are Influenced Towards and Away from Violent Extremes.'

A selection of Dr. Nicole Matejic's Publications include:

Dr. Nicole Matejic
Adjunct Lecturer, Charles Sturt University School of Terrorism and National Security - Cited by 29 - Behavioural Economics - Radicalisation - Information Disorder - Terrorism - National Security
2040 An information Odissey, Nicole Matejic | Innovation Hub
2040 An information Odissey, Nicole Matejic. 2040: An Information Odissey Nicole Matejic
NATO Review - Content Wars: Daesh’s sophisticated use of communications
Australian civil-military think tank Info Ops HQ recently published its 18 month (ongoing) investigation into Australian Foreign Fighters and Domestic Actors. This open-source intelligence investigation found that so-called Islamic State (or Daesh, al-Dawla al-Islamiyya fil Iraq wa al-Sham) run a so…
Citizen decision-making in a contested information environment – The National Security Futures Hub
We don’t have a fake news problem, we have a reality problem
Behavioural economist, Nicole Matejic examines what happens when reality starts to feel like bizarro-world.
Apocalypse Near? How Accelerationists are Exploiting COVID-19 | Security Solutions Media
The Crime-Terror Nexus | Security Solutions Media
The Crisis Economy | Security Solutions Media