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Informationen zum Autor George Joffe teaches the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He also teaches a course on the geopolitics of this region at King's College London and acts as programme adviser for the North Africa Programme at the Centre for Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Previously, he was deputy-director at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Vorwort Shedding much-needed light upon a phenomenon that has helped to define today's world, this book will be essential for general readers, students and researchers who take an interest in the fields of Politics, International Relations and the phenomena of multiculturalism and terrorism. Zusammenfassung Are today's radicals tomorrow's extremists? Are adherents to Islamism necessarily extremist or violent? Most analyses of violence emanating from the Middle East or from Europe's Muslim communities tend to assume that this is the case. Not so in this book. Instead, with a wide-ranging and case-by-case approach, it seeks to look beyond these assumptions, examining the specific contexts of radicalism and asking what creates the conditions for radicalisation. Shedding much-needed light upon a phenomenon that has helped to define today's world, this book will be essential for general readers, students and researchers who take an interest in the fields of Politics, International Relations and the phenomena of multiculturalism and terrorism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Methodological IssuesChapter Three: Islam and RadicalismChapter Four: Muslims in the UKChapter Five: Muslims in the UK (Literary Analysis)Chapter Six: Radicalism in Literary Terms (Pakistan)Chapter Seven: Radicalism in IraqChapter Eight: Kurdish Radicalisation in TurkeyChapter Nine: Radicalisation in EgyptChapter Ten: Radicalisation in Palestine Chapter Eleven: Radicalisation in IsraelChapter Twelve: Radicalism in LebanonChapter Thirteen: Radicalism in the GulfChapter Fourteen: Radicals in YemenChapter Fifteen: Radicalisation in Iran...
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Shedding much-needed light upon a phenomenon that has helped to define today's world, this book will be essential for general readers, students and researchers who take an interest in the fields of Politics, International Relations and the phenomena of multiculturalism and terrorism.
