Radicalization
Subtitle: why some people choose the path of violence
By: Farhad Khosrokhavar ; translated by Jane Marie Todd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781620972687
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Islam and politics; Islamic fundamentalism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism; Social aspects; Radicalism; Jihad; Terrorism; Islam; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society; History
Work titles: Radicalisation
Description: 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, 2001especially 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 prisonsbased on interviews with dozens of Islamic radicalsas 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 rootswhich 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.
Notes: "Originally published in France as Radicalisation in 2015 by Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the notion of radicalization; title: The history of radicalization; title: Islamist radicalization in the Muslim world; title: The Jihadist intelligentsia and its globalization; title: The Web; title: Financing radicalization; title: Sites of radicalization; title: The ambiguous role of frustration in radicalization; title: The European model of radicalization; title: The new radicalism on the march; title: Radicalization versus deradicalization; title: Conclusion.