Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge: European and American Experiences

All too often contemporary terrorism is instinctively being labeled 'global' without sufficiently acknowledging the often local and domestic causes that drive individuals into terrorism. Today's jihadi terrorism closely resembles a patchwork of self-radicalising local groups with international contacts but without a central engine or any central organisational design.No individual becomes a terrorist without passing through a radicalisation process. Up to recently, radicalisation was considered a quintessential European phenomenon but now home grown terrorism and radicalisation has also reached the United States. As such this new edition explores the different venues to violent radicalisations, compares European and American experiences and surveys deradicalisation endeavours in both continents. It also addresses an issue that remains largely missing in recent research: the historical experiences with earlier forms of radicalisation and terrorism and the similarities with contemporary expressions.Aimed at an audience of policy makers, academia and think tanks, this second edition combines a theoretical approach with novel thinking and 'out of the box' policy recommendations.