Radicalization

This study is a comparative study of the Turkish Islamist movement Milli Görüs (IGMG) in Germany and the Netherlands. It is a qualitative and a quantitative inquiry about the nature (whether it is moderate or radical) of the Milli Görüs movement in these two countries. The centr…

Students have been an important force for social change throughout the world. Various socio-psychological and structural explanations have been advanced to account for the rise and radicalization of student-based social movements. They are found to be insufficient. Global politi…

This dissertation explores why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant Jihad while others do not. I argue that clerics strategically adopt or reject Jihadi ideology because of career incentives generated by the structure of cleric educational networks. Well-connected …

U.S. policymakers need to improve their understanding of the underlying conditions and proximate drivers which appear to prompt and propel radicalization among American citizens to combat the upsurge in homegrown Islamist terrorist plots in the U.S. since 9/11. Keeping in mind t…