Expressions of Radicalization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Andreas Önnerfors, Kristian Steiner

   Pages 1-38

3. Terrorist ‘Radicalising Networks’: A Qualitative Case Study on Radical Right Lone-Wolf Terrorism

   • Matthew Feldman

   Pages 39-60

4. Who Is Shaping Your Agenda? Social Network Analysis of Anti-Islam and Anti-immigration Movement Audiences on Czech Facebook

   • Josef Šlerka, Vít Šisler

   Pages 61-85

5. Moving the Mainstream: Radicalization of Political Language in the German PEGIDA Movement

   • Andreas Önnerfors

   Pages 87-119

6. Political Radicalization in Israel: From a Populist Habitus to Radical Right Populism in Government

   • Dani Filc

   Pages 121-145

7. Loving Violent Arabs: A Study of Radicalism Within the Israeli Messianic Movement

   • Kristian Steiner, Anders P Lundberg

   Pages 147-180

8. Dealing with the Intimate Enemy: Civil Society and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Contemporary India

   • Sarbeswar Sahoo

   Pages 181-207

9. Contexts of Radicalization: An Inductive Meta-Analysis of 41 Case Studies of Contentious Elections

   • Megan Reif Dyfvermark

   Pages 209-246

10. The Perfect Storm: A Study of Boko Haram, Religious Extremism, and Inequality in Nigeria

    • Caroline Varin

    Pages 247-271

11. Patterns of Disengagement from Violent Extremism: A Stocktaking of Current Knowledge and Implications for Counterterrorism

    • Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen

    Pages 273-293

12. Hizb al-Tahrir: Its Ideology and Theory for Collective Radicalization

    • Mohammad Iqbal Ahnaf

    Pages 295-320

13. Counter-Radicalization as Counter-Terrorism: The European Union Case

    • Bruno Oliveira Martins, Monika Ziegler

    Pages 321-352

14. Conclusions

    • Kristian Steiner, Andreas Önnerfors

    Pages 353-359

15. Back Matter

    Pages 361-374

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This edited collection considers whether it is possible to discern how the level of ideology is affected by radicalization. In other words: what happens in the minds of people before they decide to use political violence as means to attain their goals? Also this book asks: what has to happen in the minds of people in order to preclude them from using political violence as a way of attaining their goals? This volume unites scholars from several disciplines and perspectives from a number of different geographical, social and cultural contexts with the overarching aim to refine our understanding of what ‘radicalization’ actually implies.

• Radicalization
• Global Politics
• 'Christianist' Terrorism
• Radical Movements
• Political Radicalization
• Ethno-Religious Violence
• Election Violence
• Extremism
• Terrorism
• Germany
• Israel
• India
• Boko Haram
• Nigeria
• Ideological Radicalization
• religion and society

• Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  Kristian Steiner

• Department of Literature, History of Ideas & Religion, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  Andreas Önnerfors

Andreas Önnerfors is Associate Professor in the History of Sciences and Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden where he currently teaches Political Thought and Intellectual History. His research particularly focuses on the political discourse of the contemporary European far-right as well as enlightenment culture and sociability. 

Kristian Steiner is Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published on the social construction of the enemy, media constructions of Muslims, and attitudes to peace within Christian Zionism and currently conducts interview studies on peace expectations among different religious groups in the Middle East.

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