Edges of Radicalization: Individuals, Networks and Ideas in Violent Extremism

by Combating Terrorism Center U S Military and Combating Terrorism Center U.S. Military Academy

This study argues that the spread of violent extremism cannot be fully understood as an ideological or social phenomenon, but must be viewed as a process that integrates the two forces in a coevolutionary manner. The same forces that make an ideology appealing to some aggrieved group of people are not necessarily the same factors that promote its transfer through social networks of self-interested human beings.As a result, radicalization inexorably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499556292
• ISBN13: 9781499556292
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"