Radicalization
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Radicalization

Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence

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Radicalization

Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence

About this book

In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, fears over "homegrown terrorism" have surfaced to a degree not seen since September 11, 2001—especially following the news that all of the perpetrators in Paris were European citizens. A sought-after commentator in France and a widely respected international scholar of radical Islam, Farhad Khosrokhavar has spent years studying the path towards radicalization, focusing particularly on the key role of prisons—based on interviews with dozens of Islamic radicals—as incubators of a particular brand of outrage that has yielded so many attacks over the past decade.

Khosrokhavar argues that the root problem of radicalization is not a particular ideology but rather a set of steps that young men and women follow, steps he distills clearly in this deeply researched account, one that spans both Europe and the United States. With insights that apply equally to far-right terrorists and Islamic radicals, Khosrokhavar argues that our security-focused solutions are pruning the branches rather than attacking the roots—which lie in the breakdown of social institutions, the expansion of prisons, and the rise of joblessness, which create disaffected communities with a sharp sense of grievance against the mainstream.

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Yes, you can access Radicalization by Farhad Khosrokhavar, Jane Marie Todd in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Radicalism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781620972687
eBook ISBN
9781620972694

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: The Notion of Radicalization
  6. 1. The History of Radicalization
  7. 2. Islamist Radicalization in the Muslim World
  8. 3. The Jihadist Intelligentsia and Its Globalization
  9. 4. The Web
  10. 5. Financing Radicalization
  11. 6. Sites of Radicalization
  12. 7. The Ambiguous Role of Frustration in Radicalization
  13. 8. The European Model of Radicalization
  14. 9. The New Radicalism on the March
  15. 10. Radicalization Versus Deradicalization
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
  21. About the Translator