The Radical's Journey

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 ofGovernment 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 theEditorial Board of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague.

A timely, highly interesting contribution to the literature on the rise of right-wing extremism. Grounded in empirical data, especially interviews with former and current radicals, the book offers a compelling analysis of why and how individuals are attracted to right-wing extremism, the ways in which participation in the extremist milieu can satisfy individuals' needs, the factors that drive many to abandon their adherence to the far-right community, and the difficulties of separating from it.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Right-Wing Extremism in GermanyChapter 3. Deradicalization in GermanyChapter 4. The N TrilogyChapter 5. The InterviewsChapter 6. Entry into the Extreme RightChapter 7. Inside the Extreme RightChapter 8. Leaving the Extreme RightChapter 9. Leaving the Movement and Life in the AftChapter 10. EpilogueIndex