Studies on radicalization & comments

[davidbfpo]

Professor Michael Kenney at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of a superb book IMHO 'From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation' (published in 2007), has a new book coming 'The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network'.

He has a short summary of the book and describes it as:

The result of all this soaking and poking is the first ethnographic study of a Salafi-jihadi network based in Europe that has been implicated in political violence and sending fighters to ISIS and other militant groups.

Link:http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2018/10...ivist-network/

I particularly liked his closing two sentences:

Unless we understand why some young men and women in Britain, and the West more broadly, embrace extremist ideologies and why a smaller subset of them mobilize to violence, we are not likely to prevent these processes from continuing in the future. This has consequences for all of us.

Link to the book:https://www.cambridge.org/core/books...F5184E2EF41D46

The main thread on radicalization is:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?7188-Studies-on-radicalization-amp-comment