This is the first book to address in depth the interplay between
radicalisation and political violence in Europe, as well as the
effectiveness of counter-measures.
As evidenced from the multitude of intercepted plots across
several European cities since 2001, the threat level and the
intensity of the desire to perpetrate mass-casualty attacks within
Europe is not diminishing. While violent radicalization has
gradually moved to the top of the EU counterterrorism agenda, it
has been accompanied by a relatively embryonic understanding about
the processes and interplay of factors that contribute to
radicalization, which are played out differently in cities like
Paris, Rome, London and Copenhagen. Undoubtedly, there are common
factors at the global and regional levels that facilitate
radicalization, but it is also clear that radicalization is very
context dependent. This book provides crucial insights into
different ways to understand violent radicalization within national
contexts and the challenges addressing the many pathways into
terrorism inspired by al-Qaeda and other forms of Islamic
extremism.
This book will be of great interest to students of terrorism
studies and political violence, counter-terrorism, EU politics,
security studies and IR in general.
Magnus Ranstorp is Research Director of the Center for
Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College
and a Member of EU Expert Groups on (Violent) Radicalisation. He
has twenty years of experience in research on counterterrorism
issues and testified at the 9/11 Commission Hearing.
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