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)
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 BM1.01.01
Chaussée de Binche 151
7000 Mons
Ging, Debbie ; Baele, Stephane ; Brace, Lewys ; Long, Simone ; Murphy, Shane. Aesthetics of misogyny and the repulsive gaze: Worldview, affect, and ideology in incel imagery. In: New Media & Society, (2025). doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251348251. doi:10.1177/14614448251348251.
Baele, Stephane ; Brace, Lewys ; Naserian, Elahe. More is More: Scaling up Online Extremism and Terrorism Research with Computer Vision. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 29, no.1, p. / (2025). doi:10.19165/2025.1559.
Baele, Stephane. Power-Law Online Terrorism and Extremism. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 19, no.2, p. 114-126 (2025). doi:10.19165/FGGW5148.
Baele, Stephane ; Brace, Lewys. Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems. In: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. /, no./, p. 1-21 (2025). doi:10.1080/1057610x.2025.2480622.
Baele, Stephane ; Bukhari, Iqraa ; Whyte, Christopher ; Cuomo, Scott ; Jensen, Benjamin ; Payne, Kenneth ; Garcia, Eugenio V. AI IR: Charting International Relations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. In: International Studies Review, Vol. 26, no.2, p. / (2024). doi:10.1093/isr/viae013 (Soumis).
Baele, Stephane. Is AI-Generated Extremism Credible? Experimental Evidence from an Expert Survey. In: Terrorism & Political Violence, Vol. /, no./, p. / (2024). doi:10.1080/09546553.2024.2380089.
Baele, Stephane. AI Extremism: Technology, Tactics, Actors (VOX-Pol Reports), VOX-Pol: Dublin, 2024. 978-1-911669-68-5. 80 p.
Baele, Stephane ; Brace, Lewys ; Ging, Debbie. A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem. In: Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 36, no.3, p. 382-405 (2023). doi:10.1080/09546553.2022.2161373.
Slingeneyer, Thibaut ; Baele, Stephane. La contrainte de la quantité : de l’omniprésence du chiffre en politique . In: Revue interdisciplinaire d'études juridiques, (2023) (Accepté/Sous presse).
Brace, Lewys ; Baele, Stephane ; Ging, Debbie. Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable' ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere. In: Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Vol. 19, no.2, p. 103-124 (2023). doi:10.1080/18335330.2023.2226667.
Baele, Stephane ; Brace, Lewys ; Coan, Travis G.. Uncovering the Far-Right Online Ecosystem: An Analytical Framework and Research Agenda. In: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 46, no.9, p. 1599-1623 (2020). doi:10.1080/1057610x.2020.1862895.
Baele, Stephane ; Sterck, Olivier C. ; Slingeneyer, Thibaut ; Lits, Grégoire. What Does the “Terrorist” Label Really Do? Measuring and Explaining the Effects of the “Terrorist” and “Islamist” Categories. In: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 42, no. 5, p. 520-540 (2019). doi:10.1080/1057610X.2017.1393902.
Baele, Stephane ; Sterck, Olivier ; Lewis, D. ; Hoeffler, A. ; Slingeneyer, Thibaut. The Ethics of Security Research. An Ethics Framework for Contemporary Security Studies. In: International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 19, no. 2, p. 105-127 (2018). doi:10.1093/isp/ekx003.
Slingeneyer, Thibaut ; Baele, Stephane. Parler de l'insécurité. Effet de langage dans la communication du terrorisme. Collège Belgique (Bruxelles, 25/10/2016).
Baele, Stéphane ; Slingeneyer, Thibaut. Parler de l’insécurité. Effet de langage dans la communication du terrorisme. Collège Belgique (Collège Belgique, 25/10/2016).
Baele, Stéphane. Critique of Immigration Categories. An Analysis of the European Commission's Immigration Policy, prom. : Braspenning Balzacq, Thierry, 21/11/2013.
Lits, Grégoire ; Baele, Stephane. Manifeste de la revue - Émulations : un quadruple dialogue. In: Emulations, Vol. 2, no. 5, p. 191-193 (2009).