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Extremism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262349369
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ExtremismDDC classification:
  • 303.484
LOC classification:
  • HN49.R33 .B474 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- SERIES FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 DELENDA EST -- The First Extremists? -- The Dark and Middle Ages -- The New World -- The Twentieth Century and Beyond -- 2 WHAT IS EXTREMISM? -- A Bestiary of Extremists -- Extremism: A Working Definition -- Extremism as a Spectrum -- Additional Reading -- 3 IN-GROUPS AND OUT-GROUPS -- Defining the In-Group -- Defining the Out-Group -- Case Study: British Israelism -- Dividing the In-Group -- Case Study: Heresiology -- The Epistemology of Identity -- 4 CRISES AND SOLUTIONS -- Case Study: The Extremist Template -- Crises -- Case Study: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Solutions -- Case Study: The Spook Who Sat by the Door -- The Extremist Equation -- 5 RADICALIZATION -- Individuals and Groups -- Group Radicalization -- Individual Radicalization -- Grievances -- Why Radicalization Happens -- Why Extremist Ideology Works -- 6 THE FUTURE OF EXTREMISM -- Social Media -- Uncertainty -- Countering Extremism -- Conclusion -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- ABOUT AUTHOR.
Summary: What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- SERIES FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 DELENDA EST -- The First Extremists? -- The Dark and Middle Ages -- The New World -- The Twentieth Century and Beyond -- 2 WHAT IS EXTREMISM? -- A Bestiary of Extremists -- Extremism: A Working Definition -- Extremism as a Spectrum -- Additional Reading -- 3 IN-GROUPS AND OUT-GROUPS -- Defining the In-Group -- Defining the Out-Group -- Case Study: British Israelism -- Dividing the In-Group -- Case Study: Heresiology -- The Epistemology of Identity -- 4 CRISES AND SOLUTIONS -- Case Study: The Extremist Template -- Crises -- Case Study: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Solutions -- Case Study: The Spook Who Sat by the Door -- The Extremist Equation -- 5 RADICALIZATION -- Individuals and Groups -- Group Radicalization -- Individual Radicalization -- Grievances -- Why Radicalization Happens -- Why Extremist Ideology Works -- 6 THE FUTURE OF EXTREMISM -- Social Media -- Uncertainty -- Countering Extremism -- Conclusion -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- ABOUT AUTHOR.

What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.

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