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. Num Pages: 352 pages, with 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: JPF; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464. . 2015. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Title: The Dynamics of Radicalization. A Relational and Comparative Perspective.
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0199937729
ISBN 13: 9780199937721
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not? The Dynamics of Radicalization offers an innovative reply by investigating how and when social movement organizations switch from a nonviolent mode of contention to a violent one. Moving beyond existing explanations that posit aggressive motivations, grievances or violence-prone ideologies, this book demonstrates how these factors gain and lose salience in the context of relational dynamics among various parties and actors involved in episodes of contention. Drawing on a comparative historical analysis of al-Qaeda, the Red Brigades, the Cypriot EOKA, the authors develop a relational, mechanism-based theory that advances our understanding of political violence in several important ways by identifying turning points in the radicalization process, similar mechanisms at work across each case, and the factors that drive or impede radicalization. The Dynamics of Radicalization offers a counterpoint to mainstream works on political violence, which often presume that political violence and terrorism is rooted in qualities intrinsic to or developed by groups considered to be radical.

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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 at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow.

Lorenzo Bosi is Assistant Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy.

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