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Engineers of Jihad - The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education (Hardcover)
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Engineers of Jihad - The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education (Hardcover)
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The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of
history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential
impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In
Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two
unexpected facts, which they imaginatively leverage to narrow that
gap: they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals
come from an engineering background, and that Islamist and
right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with
left-wing extremism, in which engineers are absent while social
scientists and humanities students are prominent. Searching for an
explanation, they tackle four general questions about extremism:
Under which socioeconomic conditions do people join extremist
groups? Does the profile of extremists reflect how they self-select
into extremism or how groups recruit them? Does ideology matter in
sorting who joins which group? Lastly, is there a mindset
susceptible to certain types of extremism? Using rigorous methods
and several new datasets, they explain the link between educational
discipline and type of radicalism by looking at two key factors:
the social mobility (or lack thereof) for engineers in the Muslim
world, and a particular mindset seeking order and hierarchy that is
found more frequently among engineers. Engineers' presence in some
extremist groups and not others, the authors argue, is a proxy for
individual traits that may account for the much larger question of
selective recruitment to radical activism. Opening up markedly new
perspectives on the motivations of political violence, Engineers of
Jihad yields unexpected answers about the nature and emergence of
extremism.
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