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Journal: Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists, Internal Al Qaeda Critiques

Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists by Angel Rabasa, Stacie Pettyjohn, Jeremy Ghez, Christopher Boucek RAND Monograph 2010 242 Pages Free Online or $26 Proactive measures to prevent vulnerable individuals from radicalizing and to rehabilitate those who have already embraced extremism have been implemented, to varying degrees, in several Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and European countries. A key …

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Worth a Look: Flawed Diplomacy–UN and the War on Terrorism

Product Description There have been numerous attempts to engage the United Nations in a meaningful campaign against state-supported and other terrorist activities. But the inherently political nature of terrorism has made it exceedingly difficult to gain global consensus on who even qualifies as a terrorist, much less agreement on counterterrorism measures to pursue. The rise …

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Worth a Look: Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction

Review ‘ – brings to the table a completely diff erent set of analytical tools and source materials which will supplement existing theories and thus greatly enrich our understanding of jihadism.’ – Dr Thomas Hegghammer, Harvard University –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review ” The Jihadis’ …

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Worth a Look: Driven to Death–Psychological Aspects of Suicide Terrorism

What drives a person to kill himself for killing others, in the name of a political or religious cause? This book is the first to report a series of studies in which failed suicide bombers and organizers of suicide attacks were subjected to systematic clinical psychological interviews and tests and were compared to non-suicide terrorists. …

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