Collective Jihadist (De-)Radicalization

Theory and Cases of Violent Extremist Behavior
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4987-5922-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Countering Violent Extremism

This book provides a homogeneous theoretical framework on radicalization and de-radicalization based on previous literature and several new original elements that are the product of the research of the three authors; this framework is then applied to three different historical scenarios.

The aim of the book is to provide a complete and comprehensive framework to understand the phenomenon of jihadist radicalization and deradicalization. It is based on a wide selection of multidisciplinary literatures which have treated the topic from different perspectives in order to depict a picture as complete as possible. Such a multidisciplinary approach is enriched by original elements derived from the authors’ work and empirical research. This theoretical framework is applied to three different case-studies: the case of Hamas in Palestine, the case of the Islamic Group in Egypt and the cases of Ennahdha and Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia. All these groups showed rather different paths of radicalization and only two of them deradicalized. Through the analysis of their historical paths, the authors elicit the common mechanisms and dynamics that, according to the different contexts, led them to different or similar developments.

This book will be of much interest to students of deradicalisation, counter-terrorism, Middle Eastern studies and International Relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Romaniuk, Scott Nicholas

Dacrema, Eugenio (University of Trento, Italy)

Dacrema, Eugenio

Koehler, Daniel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Radicalization

2. From individual radicalization to collective radicalization: Radical Social Movements and Contrast Societies

3. A Multidisciplinary Approach to De-radicalization

4. The Case of Ennahdha and Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia

5. The Case of the Islamic Group in Egypt

6. The Case of Hamas in the Palestinian Territories

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Scott N. Romaniuk is a Researcher in the School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy, and the editor of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern War (2015) and The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy (2017). He is an Associate Researcher at the Center for the Studies of Targeted Killing, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, US.
Eugenio Dacrema is a PhD student at the University of Trento.
Daniel Koehler is Director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies (GIRDS). He is the author of Understanding Deradicalization: Methods, Tools and Programs for Countering Violent Extremism (Routledge 2016) and Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century (Routledge 2018).