Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa: Politics and Process

ISBN-13: 9781138789005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 222 str.

George Joffe

Opis

In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed towards 'radicalisation' as the reasons behind such courses of action, along with a conviction that those who are radicalised represent an irrational deviation from the conventionally accepted norms of social and political behaviour.

Spis treści

Introduction: Antiphonal Responses, Social Movements and Networks  1. Islam in Libya  2. Social Change, Regime Performance and the Radicalisation of Politics: The Case of Libya  3. Tunisia: The Radicalisation of Religious Policy  4. Radicalisation in Tunisia  5. The Causes of Radicalisation in Algeria  6. Trajectories of Radicalisation: Algeria 1989-1999  7. Morocco’s Radicalised Political Movements  8. Salafism in Morocco: Between Religious Radicalism and Political Conformism  9. The Paradoxes of Islamic Radicalisation in Mauritania

O autorze

George Joffé teaches the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa  at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His primary interests are in North African affairs and he runs a research centre at the Centre, devoted to these issues, which also produces a journal, the Journal of North African Studies, which he founded and now co-edits.