Why do some individuals choose to protest political grievances via
non-violent means, while others take up arms? What role does whom
we trust play in how we collectively act? This book explores these
questions by delving into the relationship between interpersonal
trust and the nature of the political movements that individuals
choose to join. Utilizing the examples of the Arab Spring uprisings
in Egypt, Libya and Syria, a novel theoretical model that links the
literature on social capital and interpersonal trust to violent
collective action is developed and extended. Beyond simply bringing
together two lines of literature, this theoretical model can serve
as a prism from which the decision to join terrorist organizations
or violent movements may be analyzed. The implications of the
theory are then examined more closely through an in-depth look at
the behavior of members of political movements at the outset of the
Arab Spring, as well as statistical tests of the relationship
between interpersonal trust and terrorism in the Middle East and
globally. Trust and Terror will be of interest to scholars of
Comparative Politics and International Relations. The Open Access
version of this book, available at
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315505817, has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license.
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