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Book Friction : how radicalization happens to them and us / Clark McCauley, Sophia Moskalenko.
Associated Name: Moskalenko, Sophia.
Publication year: c2011.
Language: English
Call Number HN49.R33 M43 2011
Media class: Book
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199747436 0199747431
Extent: 240 p. ; 25 cm.
Description:
This accessible book identifies twelve mechanisms of political radicalization that can move individuals, groups, and the masses to increased sympathy and support for political violence. Terrorism is an extreme form of radicalization, and the book describes pathways to terrorism to demonstrate the twelve mechanisms at work. Written by two psychologists who are acknowledged radicalization experts and consultants to the Department of Homeland Security, Friction draws heavily on case histories. The case material is wide-ranging - drawn from Russia in the late 1800s, the US in the 1970s, and the radical Islam encouraged by the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
Introduction -- Section 1. Individual Radicalization. Personal Grievance -- Group Grievance -- Slippery Slope -- Love -- Risk and Status -- Unfreezing -- Section 2. Group Radicalization. Group Polarization -- Group Competition -- Group Isolation -- Section 3. Mass Radicalization. Jujitsu Politics -- Hatred --Martyrdom -- Section 4. Wrapping Up. Osama bin Laden -- Them and Us.
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