From 2005 to 2011, at least 41 Americans joined, or attempted to join, al-Shabaab, Somalia's preeminent terrorist organization. This thesis examines the radicalization process for al-Shabaab's American recruits by dividing the sample into two groups: non-Somali and Somali. The a…
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This thesis examines why young Western Muslim women from the UK are drawn to join and support ISIS in its established territories in Syria and Iraq and identifies their role within these territories. The critical role of technology, specifically social media, in facilitating the…
This dissertation studies the radicalization of the traditionalist Islamic milieu in Iran since the middle of the twentieth-century. The historical period is divided into two distinct segments separated by the 1979 Islamic Revolution: the first when the radicalization emerged in…
This project uses a quantitative approach to conduct a preliminary analysis of Muslim student radicalization at universities in the United State. Radicalization and terrorism are topics not associated with Education, and a goal of this project is to carve out a space for Compara…
Why do people in the United States become radicalized to Sunni militant terrorism? Are the mechanisms and processes which lead to radicalization different for Muslim converts and those who were born and raised as Muslims? Between September 11, 2001 and December 2010 there were n…
Jihadi terrorism in Europe is a growing and ever-changing threat. Radicals embracing a militant brand of Islam were once an external threat, planning missions abroad before traveling to their Western targets. Jihadi terrorism has since evolved into an internal threat with the em…
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…
Since 9/11, the rise of non-state actors and the threat of Islamic terrorism have become primary security concerns for Western nations. Recently, attention has shifted from a focus on threats posed by external actors to that posed by “homegrown” terrorists. Counterterrorism effo…
This thesis will explain how social disorganization leads to the radicalization. During the process of rapid change (e.g. abrupt democratization of previously authoritarian Bosnian society) new situations cause development of new desires (e.g. a need for greater independence fro…
Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has been awakened to the threat that extremist organizations pose to our national security. The greatest transnational terrorist threat to the United States right now comes primarily from extremist groups …
This essay examines preventative counter radicalization efforts as a response to violent extremism in Islamic cultures. It argues for the prudence of a counter radicalization strategy and explores the means through which it be implemented most effectively. It emphasizes the accu…
This thesis argues that there is a discursive construction of Muslim identity in the United States which is implicit and informs our understanding without being critically examined. I utilize the theoretical construction of Edward Said which he called Orientalism to argue that t…
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, global jihadists have continued to target American businesses and, in some cases, jihadists have used their legitimate business affiliations to facilitate terrorist activity. Terrorism has therefore shifted the business paradigm…
This is the first study to address in depth the interplay between radicalisation and political violence in Europe, as well as the effectiveness of counter-measures
Between September 11, 2001, and the end of 2009, 46 publicly reported cases of domestic radicalization and recruitment to jihadist terrorism occurred in the United States; 13 of those cases occurred in 2009. Most of the would-be jihadists were individuals who recruited themselve…