Understanding and Responding to Violent Extremism

A Multidisciplinary Framework

AvShahrbanou Tadjbakhsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This textbook helps students analyse the causes of violent extremism using different disciplinary approaches, and suggests concrete solutions from those perspectives.Why do individuals join violent extremist movements? This book approaches that question through seven disciplinary lenses: security, ideology, sociology, socio-economics, psychology, gender, and youth. Rather than privileging one explanation, it shows how these perspectives complement each other and why effective responses depend on combining them. The book is built on a simple premise: you cannot respond to violent extremism without first understanding what drives it. Each chapter maps the push and pull factors behind radicalisation and traces their implications for prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation. To show the frameworks at work on real lives, the book includes profiles of six individuals who became involved in extremist movements. Each chapter is structured to guide students through the material step by step, combining conceptual frameworks with case studies, real-world profiles, and discussion questions that push beyond comprehension into genuine debate. Written for students who want to think seriously about one of the most pressing security challenges of our time, this book offers both analytical depth and practical tools.The book will be of great interest to students of political violence, sociology, psychology, criminology, International Relations and public policy, as well as to practitioners working in counter-terrorism, preventing violent extremism, and the security sector.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-16
Mått:174 x 246 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:210
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041013815

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Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh is Professor at Sciences Po Paris and Visiting Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland, and at IE Spain. She is the author or editor of several books, including Human Security: Concepts and Implications (with Anuradha Chenoy, 2007), Rethinking the Liberal Peace (editor, 2011), and A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan in its Regional Security Complexes (with Kristian P. Harpviken, 2016).

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‘A comprehensive and innovative introduction into the study of violent extremist radicalization and responses to it through multiple different approaches, complemented by very useful biographical case studies. Highly recommended for everyone to get started with understanding countering terrorism.’Daniel Koehler, Director, German Institute on Radicalization and Deradicalization Studies (GIRDS)'Understanding and Responding to Violent Extremism: A Multidisciplinary Approach must be placed as a central resource for understanding terrorism from a multidisciplinary perspective. This book allows readers to compare and contrast analysis across several disciplines and stimulates critical and focused discussion on applying the discussions to policy analysis. As such, Understanding and Responding to Violent Extremism is a much-needed contribution to the literature.'Gus Martin, Professor Emeritus, California State University, USA'Violent extremism defies simplistic explanations and solutions. This useful book tackles this complexity by exploring relevant insights on drivers and prevention from a range of analytical approaches, and with a keen eye for limitations and unintended consequences.'Tore Bjørgo, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo, Norway

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Security Approach: Violent Extremism as Political Crime Chapter 3. The Ideological Approach: When Belief Justifies Violence Chapter 4. The Sociological Approach: Joining, Staying, and Leaving Violent Extremist Groups Chapter 5. The Socio-Economic Approach: Grievances, Opportunities, and the Turn to Violence Chapter 6. The Psychological Approach: Formative Experience, Emotion, and the Search for Meaning Chapter 7. The Gender Approach: Performance and Rejection of Gender Roles Chapter 8. Adolescence and Youth: When All Frameworks Converge Chapter 9. Six Lives, Seven Lenses Chapter 10. Diagnosis Before Response: An Integrated Framework