Social Networks, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: Radical by Martin Bouchard

By Martin Bouchard

This booklet examines key issues in terrorism reports, the radicalization technique and counter-terrorism regulations, during the lens of social networks.

The booklet goals to teach that networks can be on the vanguard not just whilst analysing terrorists, but in addition while assessing the responses to their activities. the quantity makes a different contribution by way of addressing fairly new topics for terrorism reviews. First it places social family and cooperation matters on the vanguard – an strategy usually pointed out as the most important to destiny breakthroughs within the box. moment, many contributions take on the function of the web within the strategy of radicalization and in recruitment extra commonly, a hugely debated subject within the box at the present time. furthermore, the booklet presents a helpful mixture of overview essays, severe essays, and unique empirical stories. This balanced procedure is usually present in the themes coated by means of the authors, in addition to their educational disciplines, which come with sociology, laptop technology, geography, heritage, engineering, and criminology in addition to political technology. some of the actual advances in terrorism experiences rely on the profitable collaboration of multi-disciplinary groups, each one with a distinct set of methodological and conceptual instruments. This quantity displays the newfound variety during this box and is a real made from its time.

This publication can be of a lot curiosity to scholars of terrorism reviews, social networks, safeguard stories, sociology, criminology and international relations in general.

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Ideologically, Nasser was pro-Â�American and anti-Â�communist, but as Aburish (2005) states, “his admiration for America did not limit or diminish him. €144). Perhaps because of this, and because of his empathy for the people of the region, he was able to transcend from Egyptian strongman to Arab icon. In this context, although he was initially in favor of peace with Israel, he had to respond to the wishes of the Arab masses the demonstrators who claimed to represent them who could not accept Israel; as the ultimate Palestinian victory had become the idée fixe with most Arab and Muslim intellectuals and radicals.

The Americans attempted to find a single strong man who could create order out of chaos and preempt Soviet intrigues in the Middle East. Nasser was a likely candidate—leader of a genuine national mass movement and head of the largest Arab country, which was emerging as the leading state in the region. In the 1950s, Nasser’s ability to avoid the assassination attempts of the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups was partly a direct result of the CIA’s activities in Egypt. 15 The agency’s involvement with Nasser was a byproduct of the fear of communism that swept across America after the Second World War and transfixed successive US administrations to containing the Soviets.

An intriguing consideration is that the Islamic State is the manifestation of an evolutionary political and religious process initiated by the Muslim Brotherhood, accelerated by Al-�Qaeda and culminating in the so-�called caliphate proclaimed by al-�Baghdadi, the shadowy leader and caliph of the Islamic State. Unlike Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi maintains a very low profile and rarely meets the media or issues public pronouncements. Furthermore, in contrast to bin Laden, he did not use terror to inspire a mass uprising of Muslims to reestablish a future caliphate.

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