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About the Author
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.
Reviews
...Provide[s] stimulating new directions in the study of terror and radicalization * Douglas Cremer, The European Legacy *
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. * Jocelyn Viterna, Harvard University *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199937721
Author Eitan Y. Alimi
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 458g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 231mm * 25mm