| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 167 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the notion of radicalization -- The history of radicalization -- Islamist radicalization in the Muslim world -- The Jihadist intelligentsia and its globalization -- The Web -- Financing radicalization -- Sites of radicalization -- The ambiguous role of frustration in radicalization -- The European model of radicalization -- The new radicalism on the march -- Radicalization versus deradicalization -- Conclusion. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Islamic fundamentalism.
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Radicalism -- History.
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Radicalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Jihad -- Social aspects.
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Islam and politics.
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Terrorists.
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Violence.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Radicalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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Islam and politics. (OCoLC)fst00979879
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Islamic fundamentalism. (OCoLC)fst00979941
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Radicalism. (OCoLC)fst01087015
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Radicalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
(OCoLC)fst01767639
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Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
(OCoLC)fst01148138
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Terrorists. (OCoLC)fst01148160
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Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Todd, Jane Marie, 1957- translator.
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Translation of (work): Khosrokhavar, Farhad.
Radicalisation.
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| Added Title |
Radicalisation. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Khosrokhavar, Farhad. Radicalisation. English. Radicalization. New York : The New Press, 2017 9781620972687 (OCoLC)945232343 |
| ISBN |
9781620972694 (electronic book) |
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1620972697 (electronic book) |
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