"This is the first systematic study of the 'lifecycle' of German Neo-Nazis, based on extensive interviews with former and current far-right extremists. The way that Kruglanski and his team bring together cutting-edge theory, a deep understanding of the roots of contemporary German far-right extremism, and empirical data is unparalleled. If you read only one book on the German far-right in English, make it this one!"
Arie W. Kruglanski is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of several awards including the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
He is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, and was a co-founder and presently is a senior investigator at the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism, START. His research interests are in the domains of human judgment and decision
making, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, the psychology of human goals, and the social psychological aspects of terrorism.
David Webber is Assistant Professor at the L. Douglas Wilder School of
Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research examines the social psychological factors involved in the radicalization and deradicalization processes, and he has worked in the field on CVE program assessment, and the training of CVE practitioners within prisons.
Daniel Koehler is co-founder of the first peer reviewed open access journal on deradicalization, JD Journal for Deradicalization, which he created together with the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies (GIRDS). His work on terrorism, radicalization, and deradicalization is regularly covered by leading international news outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, National
Public Radio, Rolling Stone Magazine, the Associated Press, and the London Sunday Times. He is also a Fellow of George Washington University's Program on Extremism at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and a member of the
Editorial Board of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague.