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Zusatztext Too often, social movement scholars treat violence as a fixed property of organizations: social movements are either violent or not. This dichotomous approach has only become more prevalent in the post 9-11 era, as scholars of terrorism examine which social or psychological characteristics of individuals make them more or less likely to join violent groups, but seldom question the existence of violent groups in the first place. The Dynamics of Radicalization provides a powerful corrective to such thinking. Through their carefully researched case studies, Alimi, Demetriou and Bosi demonstrate time and again that many of today's most famously violent groups including al-Qaeda actually started out as resistance movements engaged in nonviolent tactics. It was only over time, and through interactions with other entities, that these movements evolved into violent organizations. Informationen zum Autor Eitan Y. Alimi is Senior Lecturer of Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University and author of Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada.Chares Demetriou is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow.Lorenzo Bosi is Assistant Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy. Klappentext The book offers an innovative approach to studying processes of radicalization across a variety of cases, highlighting al-Qaeda, the Red Brigades, and the Greek-Cypriot EOKA. Zusammenfassung The book offers an innovative approach to studying processes of radicalization across a variety of cases, highlighting al-Qaeda, the Red Brigades, and the Greek-Cypriot EOKA. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowedgments List of Figures and Tables Acronyms Chapter One: Introduction: Social movements, Contentious Politics, and Radicalization Chapter Two: Theorizing and Comparing Radicalization: A Relational Framework Chapter Three: The Italian Extra-Parliamentary Left Movement and Brigate Rosse (1969-1978) Chapter Four: The Cypriot Enosis Movement and EOKA (1945-1959) Chapter Five: The Salafi Transnational Jihad Movement and al-Qaeda (1984-2001) Chapter Six: Processes of Radicalization: Dissimilarities in Similarities Chapter Seven: Non-Radicalization and Radicalization in Reverse Chapter Eight: The Relational Dynamics of Radicalization: Conclusion Appendix: Sub-Mechanism Types and Definitions Notes References Index ...
